Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
City Tech was founded in 1946 as The New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences. The urgent mission at the time was to provide training to GIs returning from the Second World War and to provide New York with the technically proficient workforce it would need to thrive in the emerging post-war economy. From its beginnings as an ...
Buddy Hackett [born "Leonard Hacker"]; (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003): American comedian and actor in motion pictures, television and live acts and theatre, was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th Street and 14th Avenue in Borough Park. [118] [119] [120] 1925
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, and was the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The college ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review's 2006 guidebook, America's Best Value Colleges. Many of its students are first and second ...
The King's College (TKC or simply King's) is a private non-denominational Christian liberal arts college in New York City. The King's College was founded in 1938 in Belmar, New Jersey, by Percy Crawford. The college re-located to the State of Delaware in 1941 and then to Briarcliff Manor, New York in 1955. Following its loss of accreditation in ...
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
The restaurant was founded by Harry Rosen in 1950, [1] although his family had run a diner in that location, albeit not under the Junior's name, since 1929. It is now owned and run by his grandson Alan Rosen. The restaurant is known for iconic New York–style cheesecake. According to the restaurant, it was named Junior's after Rosen's two sons ...
Mardi Gras comes with many traditions: parades, beads, bare chests, beads thrown at people who bare their chests, and, of course, the king cake.It's part cake, part bread, all frosted, and it has ...
When Izzy died in 1948, his son Ira Waldbaum left his studies at New York University and took over the company's six stores in Brooklyn. [3] [5] Izzy's wife Julia Waldbaum played an active part in the company and served as its secretary. From the 1960s onward, her picture and her recipes appeared on almost all of the company's 400 private-label ...