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They eventually began growing the pungent, highly prized black dirt onion on the land, taking advantage of the relative proximity of New York City as a market. By the late 20th century, the region produced an average of 30,000 lb/acre of onion (3.4 kg/m 2). Today, due to changing popular tastes in onions and different economic realities, that ...
Cherry Grove dates its modern history to the 1868 purchase by Archer and Elizabeth Perkinson. They bought the land between Lone Hill (now Fire Island Pines) and the Cherry Grove Hotel from the ocean to the bay for 25 cents per acre and named the area for the black-cherry trees in the area. [3] The Perkinsons opened a hotel in 1880.
London — West End shopping district (including Bond Street, [8] [15] Oxford Street, [16] Savile Row, Jermyn Street, Piccadilly and Regent Street), Knightsbridge area (including Sloane Street), Kings Road, Covent Garden area (including Neal Street, Long Acre and Seven Dials), Notting Hill (including Westbourne Grove), Royal Exchange
The Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is an area consisting of two counties in New York's Hudson Valley, with the municipalities of Kiryas Joel, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh as its principal cities. [3]
Good Day New York is a morning show airing on WNYW Fox 5 (channel 5), hosted by Rosanna Scotto and Curt Menefee. It is a Fox owned-and-operated television station in New York City, owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. It was the first morning newscast to air on a Fox-owned station, having launched on August 1, 1988.
Stony Brook is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island.Begun in the colonial era as an agricultural enclave, the hamlet experienced growth first as a resort town and then to its current state as one of Long Island's major tourist towns and centers of education.
Borough Park [6] (also spelled Boro Park [7] [8]) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.