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Sunseeker International is a British luxury performance motor yacht brand. Originally named Poole Power Boats, the company was founded by brothers Robert and John ...
Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]
Much of the underlying ground in Midtown Manhattan could support loads of 60 short ton/sq ft (590 t/m 2), [22] but the western portion of 53 West 53's site had formerly contained a stream. [ 5 ] [ 22 ] Groundwater was present 15–18 ft (4.6–5.5 m) below ground level at the site. [ 33 ]
Washington Street is a north–south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs in several distinct pieces, from its northernmost end at 14th Street in the Meatpacking District to its southern end at Battery Place in Battery Park City.
The two southernmost skyscrapers in Manhattan are 1 New York Plaza, on the west side of Broad Street, and 125 Broad Street, on the east. The famous neo-Roman facade of the New York Stock Exchange Building and its main entrance is located on 18 Broad Street.
The Chinese Community Center facade, facing Mott Street.There is also an entrance at Elizabeth Street.. The Chinese Community Center at 60-64 Mott Street is home to both the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), the oldest Chinese community service organization of Chinatown established in 1883, and New York Chinese School, established in 1909 for children who came from overseas ...
Semans also began negotiating to sell some of the house's unused air rights to Kalikow, [67] who had been forced to seal up several apartments in the townhouse at 2 East 82nd Street to obtain 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m 2) of additional space in the apartment building at 1001 Fifth Avenue. [64] The sale of the air rights would allow Kalikow to unseal ...
Peter Minuit was born in Wesel, Germany between 1580 and 1585 [6] [7] into a Calvinist family [8] that had moved from the city of Tournai (presently part of Wallonia, Belgium) in the Southern Netherlands controlled by Spain, in order to avoid Spanish Catholic authorities, who were not favorably disposed toward Protestants. [9]