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  2. Etymology of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Manhattoe, also Manhattan, was a name erroneously given to a Native American people of the lower Hudson River, the Weckquaesgeek, [a] a Wappinger band which occupied the southwestern part of today's Westchester County. [12] [b] In the early days of Dutch settlement they utilized the upper three-quarters of Manhattan Island [14] [15] as a ...

  3. Hess triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Hess Triangle is the result of a dispute between the city government and the estate of David Hess, a landlord from Philadelphia who owned the Voorhis, a five-story apartment building. [3] In the early 1910s, the city claimed eminent domain to acquire and demolish 253 buildings in the area in order to widen Seventh Avenue and expand the IRT ...

  4. Riverton Houses - Wikipedia

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    The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...

  5. Is 'Owning Manhattan' Real? Here's What We've Sleuthed - AOL

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    Watching Owning Manhattan on repeat, aka the buzzy new Netflix reality show about high powered real estate agents in New York City who work for Ryan Serhant of all-caps SERHANT.

  6. Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, or Midtown West on real estate listings is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.

  7. Ryan Serhant wants 'Owning Manhattan' to be 'the greatest ...

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    Ryan Serhant's new Netflix series, Owning Manhattan, gives an honest take on the high-stakes world of New York City real estate.(Winnie Au/Netflix)

  8. 1049 Fifth Avenue - Wikipedia

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    1049 Fifth Avenue is a 23-floor luxury condominium apartment building located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.Built in 1928 as the Adams Hotel, the building underwent extensive renovation in its conversion to residential condominiums during the years 1990–1993.

  9. House of the Day: Michael Stipe's Monster NYC Penthouse - AOL

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    Everybody hurts, sometimes. But you'd probably hurt a lot less if you could afford to buy former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe's New York City pad. For $10.95 million you can own his duplex ...