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Queens - Wikipedia  Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City. .... The county was founded alongside Kings County (Brooklyn, which was .... The borough's administrative and court buildings are presently located in Kew ... Idlewild Airport, in southern Queens and now called JFK Airport, opened in 1948.
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LaGuardia Airport - Wikipedia  LaGuardia Airport lwrdi/ is an international airport in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. ... The initiative to develop the airport for commercial flights began with an outburst .... Although LaGuardia was a large airport for the era in which it was built, it soon became too small.
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The first party to sell these containers was held in 1948, today, you ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... The first party to sell these containers was held in 1948, today, you can ... Located in Queens, it first opened to commercial traffic in July 1948...
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Queen's University, 1 of the 2 universities in Northern Ireland, is in ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria # Quiz # Question ... Located in Queens, it first opened to commercial traffic in July 1948...
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1997 Annual Airport Traffic Report - Port Authority of New York ...  Commercial and Non-Commercial Aircraft Movements. 1.1.1 Annual ..... built as part of a large-scale airport redevel- ... LGA is located in the Borough of Queens,.
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Cummins Inc. - News Release - Cummins.com  QUEENS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2006--Clean Air Communities (CAC), through its Queens Clean Air Project, granted the New York City Department of Sanitation .... Since its inception in 2000, CAC has directed almost $7 million to ... using approximately 5,700 vehicles, including 2,230 collection trucks, 450...
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Kemmons Wilson: America's Innkeeper - Bloomberg  Oct 11, 2004 ... It was summer, 1951, when Kemmons Wilson, one of Memphis' most ... The result was Holiday Inn motels, the roadside home-away-from home for ... He chose ideal locations for the first four Holiday Inns, all in Memphis. The first, which opened in 1952 just off a two-lane highway on the outskirts of the town,...
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MSG will always be the 'Mecca,' no matter how bad things get | New ...  Feb 11, 2015 ... There's no stage that has the aura of Madison Square Garden. ... Now the Mecca of Basketball feels more like a tourist venue than an intimidating home court. ... So the Mecca was built on the CCNY teams, the NYU teams and so forth. It's ... moving to 49th Street in 1925 and to its current location on Seventh...
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Watch the First Commercial Ever Shown on American TV, 1941 ...  Aug 2, 2013 ... Let's set the scene: The Brooklyn Dodgers are playing the Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field on July 1, 1941, and the game is being aired on WNBT-TV (later to become WNBC). Before the game begins, TV viewers see this: a 10-second advertisement for Bulova clocks and watches.
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Before They Were Parks : Manhattan : NYC Parks  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1962, home to many important ... Man Crossing at Amsterdam and West 63rd, circa 1956, New York City Parks Photo ... which opened in 1938 and is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... Street and 8th Avenue, this traffic circle and pedestrian plaza was named in...
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May 24, 1883 | Brooklyn Bridge Opens - The New York Times  May 24, 2012 ... On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn with Manhattan, ... Bridge's promenade in 1899, 16 years after the bridge opened. ... It is estimated that over 50,000 people came in by the railroads alone, ... East River Bridge, was the largest suspension bridge in the world, with a span of 1,595 feet.
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Then & Now . The Rise and Fall of Penn Station . American - PBS  ... operating permit granted to Madison Square Garden to operate over the existing train tracks ... On July 24, 2013 the New York City Council passed a vote limiting the ... The original Penn Station that opened in 1910 was built as part of a vast...
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Ellis Island - Wikipedia  Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and ... The State of New York leased the island in 1794 and started to fortify it in...
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Photos: The Arroyo Seco Parkway, The First Freeway, Turns 75 : LAist  Dec 30, 2015 ... The first Highland Park segment of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Photo ... which connects downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena, opened 75 years ago today and is considered by many to be the first freeway in the United States. ... during the Great Depression, the six-lane freeway first opened to cars on Dec.
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Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, celebrates 75 years  Dec 4, 2015 ... Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, celebrates 75 years. Photo illustration ... Seventy-five years ago, the Arroyo Seco Parkway opened to traffic, linking Pasadena to Los Angeles and becoming the first urban freeway in the state. The occasion was ... That was in Dec. 30, 1940. Today, on the eve...
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Ellis Island - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Many immigrants remained in New York, while others traveled by barge to railroad stations ... The first Ellis Island Immigration Station officially opens on January 1, 1892, ... Ellis Island experiences a sharp decline in receiving immigrants: From...
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  THE WORLD'S FIRST ONE OF THESE OPENED IN 1925; IT WAS IN SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA AND HAD PARKING IN FRONT OF EACH DOOR, MOTEL.
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1st Drive in theater opens on June 6, 1933 in Camden, New Jersey ...  Boardwalk at Asbury Park - look at this and then think of what "Jersey Shore" ..... Drive in Movie Theater: 1933, first Drive in Movie Theater opened in Camden, ... 30+ Badass Women That Changed The World We Live In Today -- One Of ..... Drive-In Theater is the oldest and one of just four remaining in the state of Georgia.
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the very first drive-in movie theater in Camden, New Jersey, USA ...  At its peak, nearly 5,000 drive-ins were located throughout the US. ... On June 6 in 1933, the very first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. .... Jersey Gems, North Jersey, Jersey State, Jersey Thing, Vintage Cinemas, Vintage ...... 1949 Usher, drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948 Drive-in theater, Chicago,...
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New York City subway opens - Oct 27, 1904 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, New York City subway opens on Oct 27, 1904. ... The first line, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), traveled ... No matter how crowded or dirty, the subway is one New York City institution few New ... Union troops are turned back when they try to cut the last railroad supplying the...
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New York City 1900-1949 - Timelines of History  1903 Jun 19, Henry Louis Gehrig (d.6/22/1941) was born in New York City. ..... the first double decker bridge, opened and linked the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens. ..... High-speed express and local elevators were also used in this building, ... 1916 Feb 26, Jackie Gleason, comedian (Ralph Kramden in the...