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  2. Lower East Side History Project - Wikipedia

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    In June 2009 LESHP received a prestigious award and grant from the Citizen's Committee for New York City, an organization founded in the 1970s by Jacob Javitz. [3] In June 2012, LESHP was honored with a Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation award.

  3. St. Nicholas Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.

  4. Central Avenue Historic District (Queens) - Wikipedia

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    Central Avenue Historic District is a national historic district in Glendale, Queens, New York. It includes 104 contributing buildings built in 1916. They consist of three story brick tenements with two apartments per floor. Buildings feature front facades and amber iron-spot brick. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...

  5. Foley Square - Wikipedia

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    The square is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse ...

  6. Ladies' Mile Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores and upscale retailers, including B. Altman, Best & Co., Arnold Constable, Bergdorf Goodman, Gorham Silver, Thurn, W. & J. Sloane, Lord & Taylor, and Tiffany & Co. [8] [2] The Ladies' Mile also boasted upscale restaurants ...

  7. Human leg found abandoned on New York Subway track - AOL

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    The NYPD said the leg was found at about 1 p.m. ET on Saturday in the Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx, between 167th Street and 170th Street, on the line of the 4 train, according to a ...

  8. Masonic Hall (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    Early masonic meetings and meetings of the Grand Lodge of New York were likely held at taverns as well as an early iteration of Tammany Hall.On June 24, 1826, St. John's Day, the cornerstone was laid for a Gothic style Masonic Hall on Broadway in lower Manhattan between Reade and Pearl Streets, directly across from the original site of the New York Hospital, and today the location of the Jacob ...

  9. Two human arms and a leg found at Long Island park - AOL

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    long island suffolk police body parts (NBC New York) The dog, after sniffing around the east side of the park, then found a right arm about 20 feet away from where the left arm had been discovered ...