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In 1956, Brandeis received a one-million-dollar donation from New York industrialist Jack A. Goldfarb to build a library. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] The building, named the Bertha and Jacob Goldfarb Library in his honor, was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz , a firm which designed many campus buildings in the 1950s. [ 63 ]
The Justice is the independent student newspaper of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. [1] The paper is run primarily by undergraduate students. Since its founding in 1949, the Justice has provided a critical perspective on Brandeis University policy and events through its articles and editorial work.
The ZIP Code 10314, which covers much of the Mid-Island area has the largest percentage of Asians of any ZIP Code on Staten Island, at 13.3% Non-hispanic Asian. [2] The Mid-Island region's character was transformed dramatically in 1973, when the Staten Island Mall opened in New Springville, on a site that was originally used as an airport.
New stations at Roberts and nearby Stony Brook were built in 1887. [8] [9] The railroad opened a roundhouse at Roberts in early 1893, replacing an older facility in Waltham. [10] The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) closed the station building in 1937, but trains continued to stop at the platform. [11] [12]
Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is credited with "helping to spur the evolution of black R&B into rock music". [9] Brandeis University professor Stephen J. Whitfield, in his 2001 book In Search of American Jewish Culture, regards "Hound Dog" as a marker of "the success of race-mixing in music a year before the desegregation of public schools was mandated" in Brown v.
10 Hudson Yards, also known as the South Tower, is an office building that was completed in 2016 [4] on Manhattan's West Side.Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea and the Penn Station area, the building is a part of the Hudson Yards urban renewal project, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side Yard.
The City Hall Post Office and Courthouse was designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett for a triangular site in New York City along Broadway in Civic Center, Lower Manhattan, in City Hall Park south of New York City Hall. The Second Empire style building, erected between 1869 and 1880, was not well received. Commonly called "Mullett's Monstrosity ...
1095 Avenue of the Americas is a 630-foot-tall (190 m) skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was constructed from 1971 to 1973 to be the headquarters of New York Telephone Company and has 41 floors. [1] The building also served as the headquarters of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. [2]