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One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, the Allied Chemical Tower or simply as the Times Tower) is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300247336. Oltman, Adele (November 5, 2007). "The Hidden History of Slavery in New York". The Nation. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019; Lydon, James G. (April 1978). "New York and the Slave Trade, 1700-1774".
The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Swing Low, [1] located in Manhattan in New York City, honors the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. [2] The intersection at which it stands was previously a barren traffic island, and is now known as "Harriet Tubman Triangle".
Rosenthal was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times for much of the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1954, he was assigned to New Delhi and reported from across South Asia. His writings from there were honored by the Overseas Press Club and Columbia University . [ 1 ]
The 1840 census lists one slave held in York County, and slavery had ended by 1850. The public is invited to the 10 a.m. Nov. 15 groundbreaking ceremony for the Crispus Attucks History and Culture ...
[48] [b] By August 1960, the hotel was known as the Americana East, as the "Americana" name was being used for another project on Seventh Avenue (now the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel). [ 53 ] [ 54 ] To avoid confusion with the hotel on Seventh Avenue, the Lexington Avenue hotel was renamed the Summit in November 1960.
It is a rare monograph in economic history that gets reviewed in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post among others; or whose authors appear on television talk shows. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's 'Time on the Cross' was one such book ...
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...