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Deputy Chief Orio J. Palmer Way – Orio Palmer, Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department who died while rescuing civilians trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Detective Sean Carrington Way – Sean Carrington, a New York City Police Department detective fatally shot in the line of duty in 1998.
Gotham City was founded in 1635 by Captain Jon Logerquist, a Norwegian mercenary, before subsequently being taken over by the English; this parallels the history of New York City, which was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam before being conquered by England and renamed New York. [40]
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Whitehall Street is one of New York City's oldest streets, having been built by c. 1626, shortly after the Dutch West India Company established New Amsterdam. [6] During the Dutch colonial era, part of the street was known as Markvelt or Marckvelt, [7] [8] though the name seems to have only applied to the northern portion. [9]
Pratt-New York Phoenix School of Design (New York School of Applied Design for Women) May 10, 1977: Racquet and Tennis Club Building: May 6, 1979: Ritz Tower, 465 Park Avenue October 29, 2002: Rizzoli Building (712 Fifth Avenue) January 29, 1985: James Hampden Robb and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb House 23 Park Avenue at 35th Street
Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is the most expensive shopping street in the world. [33] New York City real estate is a safe haven for global investors. [30] The total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$1.479 trillion for the 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 6.1% from the previous year.
Cortlandt Alley, 2022. Cortlandt Alley is an alley in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which is often used as a filming location.Filming is not allowed in many of New York City's alleys, so Cortlandt Alley appears in many movies and TV shows, [1] [2] [3] including Crocodile Dundee, 9½ Weeks and Boardwalk Empire. [4]
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. J. Paulding (1843). Affairs and men of New Amsterdam: in the time of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. Compiled from Dutch manuscript records of the period. Post, John J. (1882). "Old streets, roads, lanes, piers and wharves of New York.