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Knickerbocker Village It is situated between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge , in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side . Although the location was generally considered to fall in the Lower East Side , it has come to be thought of as part of Chinatown in recent years and the majority of residents are Chinese. [ 1 ]
Early the following decade, he also developed Knickerbocker Village, middle-class housing on the Lower East Side between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. His original intention for the project was to build housing for "junior Wall Street executives". [6] Knickerbocker Village was important in the history of landlord–tenant law ...
D'Amico was born and raised in the Knickerbocker Village public housing tenement building where his uncle Albert Embarrato, Anthony Mirra, cousin Richard Cantarella and fellow mobster Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero resided. He was also a cousin of Paul Cantarella and Frank Cantarella.
Just one district in Manhattan chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in last week's election -- becoming the first in the borough to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in at least a decade.
Knickerbocker glory, a layered ice cream sundae from the United States and United Kingdom; Knickerbocker (Zamboanga), an ice cream dessert with various fresh fruits from the Philippines; Knickerbocker, a New York Central train from St. Louis to New York City and Boston; Knickerbocker, Texas
The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen. [6] By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered ...
The Knickerbocker News' circulation peaked at about 71,000 in 1972-73, which made it the largest newspaper at that time in New York's Capital Region, but had fallen to about 28,000 by the late 1980s. That precipitous decline was a fate that overtook most afternoon newspapers in the United States during the same period as major changes in the ...
Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker [1] (c. 1648 – c. 1720) was a Dutch colonist associated with the settlements of Albany (formerly Beverwyck and Fort Orange), Schaghticoke, Red Hook and Tivoli and in New Netherland.