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City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open mapping project. It is a world map created and maintained by volunteer contributors. OSM data appears on Wikipedia on maps throughout the project. OSM data is made up of three types of features: nodes (points,) ways (lines and polygons,) and relations (multi-polygons and collections of features.)
The Big Apple – first published as a euphemism for New York City in 1921 by sportswriter John J. Fitz Gerald, who claimed he had heard it used the year prior by two stable hands at the New Orleans Fair Grounds because of the large prizes available at horse races in New York. [3] Later made popular by a 1970s advertisement campaign. [4] [5]
Here are our 50 favorite New York-inspired baby names, taken right off the city streets, neighborhoods and landmarks. Now if you'll excuse us, we ha 50 NYC-Inspired Baby Names That Are Too Cute ...
This edit-a-thon will be centered on the Queens Name Explorer dataset of over 1200 people whose names grace the parks, streets, schools and other public spaces of Queens, in New York City. These honorees include beloved civic leaders, organizers, small business owners, educators, artists, and musicians from Queens who do not have Wikidata ...
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that comprise New York City. They are the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens , and Staten Island . Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York : The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is ...
Block Associations and Neighborhood Associations in New York City are non-profit organizations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A block party requires that an applicant must have a block association membership and the supporting signatures of the majority of block residents.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 22:57, 9 February 2023: 2,000 × 1,978 (138 KB): Nafsadh: Reverted to version as of 18:55, 26 October 2014 (UTC) Intention to not add English label to the svg itself was to keep it mostly language independent and not having to be subject to svg text rendering issues.