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A group of investors including Dr. William G. Beckers of New York City, one of the hotel's early stockholders, Adolph Ochs, the owner and publisher of the New York Times, Dr. Willy Myers, a New York City surgeon and William H. Bixby, a St. Louis industrialist, hired prominent local architect and structural engineer Robert Rheinlander to oversee ...
The Ramble and Lake are two geographic features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux 's 1857 Greensward Plan for Central Park, the features are located on the west side of the park between the 66th and 79th Street transverses.
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Owasco Lake's name may have been derived from the Iroquois word dwas-co, meaning bridge on the water. [1] The name may also have been derived from the word was-co, meaning floating bridge. [2] Cayuga territory was found between the territory of the Onondaga and Seneca. Jesuits founded missions among the Cayuga in the mid-17th century. In 1660 ...
Though no longer a part of New York City's water supply system, it does supply water to the nearby Pool and Harlem Meer. It is a popular place of interest in Central Park. Many joggers have used the 1.58-mile (2.54 km) [21] Stephanie and Fred Shuman Running Track, [22] including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Madonna, and Jacqueline Kennedy ...
The lake's drainage area is about 180 square miles (470 km 2). Also at the southern end of the lake is the City of Jamestown while the Village of Mayville is located at the northern end. Other communities located on the lake are Bemus Point, Maple Springs, Lakewood and Chautauqua, the site of the influential Chautauqua Institution founded in ...
The new movie "Caddo Lake," from M. Night Shyamalan's studio, was partly filmed in Shreveport. ... One of the actors from the Shreveport-Bossier area was even able to attend the movie's premier in ...
The Tappan Zee (/ ˌ t æ p ən ˈ z iː /; also Tappan Sea or Tappaan Zee) is a natural widening of the Hudson River, about 3 miles (4.8 km) across at its widest, in southeastern New York. It stretches about 10 miles (16 km) along the boundary between Rockland and Westchester counties, downstream from Croton Point to Irvington.