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An aerial photo of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 2006. The station has expanded from the original 125 acres, mansion and outbuildings to an 850-acre complex containing more than 20 major buildings. There are 700 acres are devoted to test plots, orchards, and vineyards, and 65,000 square feet of greenhouse space. [3]
Most skyscrapers in New York City (including the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building, which was evacuated several times on September 11 and after due to false reports of potential threats), Chicago (including Sears Tower) [11] and Philadelphia; The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and ferries ...
New York was first settled around 1856 by James C. Walker, Davis Reynolds, Jesse M. Forester, and A. M. Otts at a location south of the present site. The present site was settled in 1873. The community was reportedly named either by T. B. Herndon as a joke or by Reynolds because of his hopes for the town's future. [2]
On Monday (March 1), Apple retail locations in Texas in the Houston, Dallas and San Antonio areas are now open, the last stores in the U.S. to reopen. Tech news site 9to5Mac first reported the ...
The Big Apple's snowless streak has not only been turning heads, but it has also officially become record-setting. Since records began in 1869, the latest first measurable snowfall in New York ...
Several non-owned stations were affiliated with the Rural Radio Network during its first year of operation. The largest was William G. H. Finch's WGHF in New York City, which is known today as WFAN-FM, and others included WSLB-FM in Ogdensburg, New York; WFHA in Hartford, Connecticut; WACE-FM in Springfield, Massachusetts; and WFLY in Troy, New ...
In New York, a ground-dweller by the name of Staten Island Chuck has made his call: spring is coming. New York's weather-predicting groundhog issued a proclamation Sunday morning, declaring that ...
In a May 6, 1914 letter to his father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who was serving as Ambassador to Turkey in the Wilson administration, Morgenthau wrote, "I have undertaken to set out 1,400 fruit trees (apple trees) which cover some 47-48 acres." [5] [6] Organic Authority LLC named Fishkill Farms its 2010 "top pick" apple farm in the New York City ...