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Knickerbocker Village Limited is a housing development in Manhattan, New York City. It is situated between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge , in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side .
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen. [6] By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed a bill meant to stop the Park Avenue Conservancy, which runs the armory, from evicting the Knickerbocker Greys, a youth cadet program founded in 1881.
Just one district in Manhattan chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in last week's election -- becoming the first in the borough to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in at least a decade.
Knickerbocker Ice Company, based in New York State during the 19th century; Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988; Knickerbocker Press, a division of publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons; Knickerbocker Sailing Association, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender sailing club in New York City
Early the following decade, he also developed Knickerbocker Village, middle-class housing on the Lower East Side between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. His original intention for the project was to build housing for "junior Wall Street executives". [6] Knickerbocker Village was important in the history of landlord–tenant law ...
D'Amico was born and raised in the Knickerbocker Village public housing tenement building where his uncle Albert Embarrato, Anthony Mirra, cousin Richard Cantarella and fellow mobster Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero resided. He was also a cousin of Paul Cantarella and Frank Cantarella.