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In June 2021, the Manhattan Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care System of the of the Department of Veterans Affairs, located on East 23rd Street in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan, was renamed the Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus. It was the first such facility in the United States to be named after a woman veteran. [23]
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.
Dyckman Street – named for Dutch farmer William Dyckman, whose family owned over 250 acres (11,000,000 sq ft) of farmland in the area; the Dyckman House, located nearby at the corner of Broadway and 204th Street, was built by William Dyckman in 1784 and is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan, and many consider it the border between ...
The City So Nice They Named It Twice – a reference to "New York, New York" as both the city and state, spoken by Jon Hendricks in 1959 on a jazz cover of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers' song "Manhattan" on George Russell's album New York, N.Y., [16] and popularized by New York-based late night talk show host David Letterman, who also used ...
[13] [4] [14] [15] At the time, the area was far from the core of New York City, which was centered south of 23rd Street in what is now Lower Manhattan. On September 27, 1825, a 25-year-old African American man named Andrew Williams, employed as a bootblack and later as a cartman, purchased three lots from the Whiteheads for $125.
The name Manhattan originated from the Lenapes language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows".
The company moves its headquarters from Dulles, Va. to Manhattan. 2009 : Tim Armstrong joins as CEO and becomes responsible for much of the rebranding and growth. 2010 : Time Warner cut ties with AOL.
Spider-Man: The Animated Series: 1998 Friends: 2004 Greenwich Village, Manhattan: Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: 1995 2002 Can't Hurry Love: 1995 Double Rush: High Society: New York News: Caroline in the City: 1995 1999 NewsRadio: Manhattan: The Parent 'Hood: The Wayans Bros. Central Park West: 1996 Love and Marriage: Manhattan: Waynehead ...