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Shakespeare was born on Staten Island, New York. [1] His father, Valentine Shakespeare, was a New York City firefighter and the captain of Fire Company 163. [2] The family claimed to be direct descendants of the famed writer William Shakespeare. [3] The younger Shakespeare became a star football player at Staten Island's Port Richmond High ...
[5] [6] It had a double-height central reading room and shelf space for 100,000 books. [3] This building would serve the NYSL for 81 years. 53 East 79th Street. In 1937, with the collection having grown to 150,000 volumes, the library moved to its present location at 53 East 79th Street, on the Upper East Side between Madison and Park avenues.
The name of the store was suggested by Kevin Kline, Cates' husband. [7] The store's name is a reference to the blue trees in Fauvist paintings; [ 8 ] with the idea being that just as blue trees seem out of place in a forest, a store like Blue Tree seems out of place on the Upper East Side.
Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career. Elihu Root – former Secretary of State [191] Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector; Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner [180] James Rorimer – museum director [192] Aby Rosen – real estate ...
Gem Spa was the "corner store" for locals for nearly a century before closing due to financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cherries, an adult store on St. Mark's Place whose signage was part of Saturday Night Live's opening montage. The store closed in late 2011.
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded approximately by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park and Fifth Avenue to the west. [4]
Last checked out way back in 1923, the book was discovered by a woman sorting through her late grandmother’s personal items, according to local outlet TAPinto Paterson.
85th Street is a westbound-running street, running from East End Avenue to Riverside Drive in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.. At Fifth Avenue, the street feeds into the 86th Street transverse, which runs east–west through Central Park and heads from the Upper East Side (where it is known as East 85th Street) to West 86th Street on the Upper West Side.