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The New York City Department of City Planning passed the 1961 Zoning Resolution in October 1960, [7] and the new zoning rules became effective in December 1961, superseding the 1916 Zoning Resolution. [8] The new zoning solution used the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) regulation instead of setback rules. A building's maximum floor area is regulated ...
The Novo-Diveevo Convent sits in a grove of trees about a 45 minute drive north of New York City. Across the way is a shopping mall; the orange signage of a Lowe’s Home Improvement outlet is ...
The SVR replaced the KGB's overseas arm. According to former SVR defector Sergei Tretyakov, in the 1990s, SVR agents were secretly scattered across New York City to gather intelligence for the Kremlin in Russia. [9] After the transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation, new discoveries were made about Soviet-era espionage.
Included were letters from two U.S. ambassadors in Europe to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a senior State Department official. Thanks to an official in the State department sympathetic to the Party, the confidential correspondence, concerning political and economic matters in Europe, ended up in the hands of Soviet intelligence. [20]
The building features 4- to 6-story towers surrounding the administration building, and a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-story square tower at the center entrance. It was the home to the 74th Regiment of the New York National Guard. [2] Prior to its construction, the site was home to a 13.5 million gallon reservoir. [3] [4]
The son of Soviet Jews who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s, Gershkovich grew up in New Jersey speaking Russian with his parents. By 2017, he was working as a reporter in Russia.
On 24 September, the Russian Baltic fleet began to arrive in New York harbor. On 12 October, the Russian Far East fleet began to arrive in San Francisco. The Russians, judging that they were on the verge of war with Britain and France over the British-fomented Polish insurrection of 1863, had taken this measure to prevent their ships from being ...
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