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Manhattan Avenue–West 120th–123rd Streets Historic District is a national historic district in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It consists of 113 contributing residential rowhouses built between 1886 and 1896.
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Pleasant Avenue is a north-south street in the East Harlem neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It begins at E. 114th Street and ends at E. 120th Street. The street was the northernmost section of Avenue A, which stretched from Alphabet City northward, and was added to the grid wherever space allowed between First Avenue and the East Ri
Marcus Garvey Park (formerly and also named Mount Morris Park) is a 20.16-acre (81,600 m 2) park on the border between the Harlem and East Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The park, centered on a massive and steep outcropping of schist , interrupts the flow of Fifth Avenue traffic, [ a ] which is routed around the park via ...
Many of the homes in North Port St. Joe were built before the 1960s in the shadow of the St. Joe Paper Company mill that opened in 1934 and a nearby chemical plant, Bolden said.
Its traffic is figuratively described as "Harlem's heartbeat" by Langston Hughes in his poem Juke Box Love Song. [2] From 119th Street to 123rd Street, Lenox Avenue is part of the Mount Morris Park Historic District, designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1971. [3]
Riverside Church occupies a 454-by-100-foot (138 m × 30 m) lot [134] between Riverside Drive to the west, 122nd Street to the north, Claremont Avenue to the east, and 120th Street to the south. [135] Riverside Church's main architects; Henry C. Pelton, Francis R. Allen, and Charles Collens; created the general plan for the church. [3]