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  2. Land reclamation in Lower Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1] The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay. The extension of the ...

  3. Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency - Wikipedia

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    It updates the BIG U with more substantial land reclamation that could be funded and finished, avoiding the occasional temporary flooding of the earlier plan and its maintenance costs. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Initial plans focus on landfilling and building up East River Park .

  4. Boroughs of New York City - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of New York area codes - Wikipedia

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    Area code Year Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; component of 212/332/646 and 917 overlays 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; component of 315/680 overlay 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 332: 2017

  6. Battery Park City - Wikipedia

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    The land upon which it is built was created in the 1970s by land reclamation on the Hudson River using over 3 million cubic yards (2.3 million cubic meters) of soil and rock excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center, [6] the New York City Water Tunnel, and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from ...

  7. New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York, often called New York City [b] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs , each coextensive with a respective county .

  8. Bay Terrace, Queens - Wikipedia

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    For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Bay Terrace as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview. [9] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview was 21,751, a change of -980 (-4.5%) from the 22,731 counted in 2000 .

  9. New York metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The New York City television designated market area (DMA) includes Pike County, Pennsylvania, [35] which is also included in the CSA. In addition to the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA metropolitan statistical areas (MSA), the following core-based statistical areas are also included in the New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA CSA: