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48 Wall Street, formerly the Bank of New York & Trust Company Building, is a 32-story, 512-foot-tall (156 m) skyscraper on the corner of Wall Street and William Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1927–1929 in the Neo-Georgian and Colonial Revival styles, it was designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris.
In Yorktown, the c.1890 Hungarian Baptist Church is located at 225 East 80th between Second and Third Avenues; and the City University of New York administration building, which was originally the Welfare Island Dispensary, and then the New York City Board of Higher Education, is at 535 East 80th Street at East End Avenue, built in 1940. [18]
New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1919]. The Call to a National Conference of American Men and Women. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. Allen McCurdy, Wanted — A Ballot Box. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. —Committee of Forty-Eight Pamphlets No. 1. Frederick William Pethwick-Lawrence, Hand and Brain.
Forty and Eight railroad float, a locomotive on rubber tires owned by the 40–8 voiture at Shortsville, New York, drives in the parade for the Wayne County Fair on August 17th, 2018. The local unit of the Forty and Eight is the voiture. It often covers a specific county or American Legion post. Above that is the grande.
The New York City Planning Commission approved the plans in September 1948, [19] [20] and the Board of Estimate approved $1.848 million for the project that December. [16] [21] The board provisionally authorized the street widening in June 1949, and Manhattan's borough president announced in December 1949 that work would commence shortly.
Forty-eight may also refer to: . In Chinese numerology, 48 is an auspicious number meaning 'determined to prosper', or simply 'prosperity', which is good for business. [3]'48 is a slang term in Palestinian Arabic for parts of Israel or Palestine not under the control of the State of Palestine.
The boxcars were "forty-and-eights" used during both world wars. The term refers to the cars' carrying capacity, said to be 40 men or eight horses. [ 4 ] Built starting in the 1870s as regular freight boxcars, they were originally used in military service by the French army in both World Wars, and then later used by the German occupation in ...
The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.3 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages. [6] Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and the Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike".