Joan Didion's essay "Goodbye to All That" is a detailed piece about her experiences in New York city. ... When Didion arrived from Sacramento she was not prepared for the completely different atmosphere of New York City. ... Didion continues by recalling a spring day on a street corner, where the sights, sounds, and smells of New York would one day cost something, all of this made her feel like more of a stranger to the city. ... Upon entering New York she was a young girl, overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of the city, and she knew that her life would never be the same. ... She b...

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Brooklyn is the largest of New York City's five boroughs. ... Brooklyn is home to the oldest building in New York City. ... It was designated a New York City landmark in 1966. ... When it was closed in 1966, it was taken over by the City of New York and reopened as an industrial park. ... It was designated a New York City landmark on July 12, 1988 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. ...

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In a very busy, selfish, and impersonal cities like New York City, the afore mentioned scenario usually occurs everyday. ... However, due to the division of cultures, religions, and races, there is a separation in major societies, like New York City. ... This depiction of New York City supports the theories of Huxley and Hobbes. ... It particularly changed the people of New York City. ... This common goal for unity was sadly accomplished through devastating actions against the city, but nonetheless it brought the people of New York together. ...

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New York City is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, at the mouth of the Hudson River. New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. ... New York's two major airports are located in queens along with a lot of the industry in New York City. ... Brooklyn Brooklyn was settled 1636, and chartered as part of New York City in 1898. ... New York City Strange Facts New York City has long been know as a strange city, so here are the facts to prove it. ...

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In early years in New York racketeering was a big business. ... States Burton Turkus, " in 1945, New York City Investigations Commissioner Edgar Bromberger found that Erickson (New York Organized crime leader of the 30's and 40's) had made bank deposits of over $30,000,000 over a twelve year period- (http://www.thehistorychannel.com/1). ... Organized crime ran underground rackets in New York that made millions. ... Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. ... Soon cities like St. ...

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NYPD, A City and its Police is a book about the development of the New York City Police Department from the early 1800s to the new millennium. ... This book provides insight into the world of New York City policemen. ... From 1894 to 1897, he served as the police commissioner for New York City. ... Roosevelt extended the area outside of New York City to allow anyone within the state of New York to become officers. ... At this point, Becker then started a relationship with Herman Rosenthal, another New York City gambler. ...

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The New York Times of 1914 resembles the newspapers of today on face value. ... Promises of suburban life away from the city, but close enough to commute to work make the headlines of this section. ... Local events, show times, and just the general happenings around the city are featured in the articles. ... (New York Times, September 26, 1914 p.6) These are pretty bold claims for any advertisement. ... (New York Times September 26, 1914, p. 5) This advertisement is appalling. ...

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It opened at the Third Avenue Theatre in New York City and was the first true show. ... Black theater originally began in African, but then came around to New York in a city by the name of Harlem. ... This show opened on 63rd street in New York City on Monday, May 23, 1921. ... They wondered what was going on in a city called Harlem. ... New York has been known for making people famous. ...

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The New York Times, The Star Tribune, The Twin Cities" City Pages, and the Asian Pages are examples of different types of newspapers with different styles of providing information. ... The Star Tribune is similar in some ways to the New York Times. ... The City Pages can be used as an example of an alternative paper, and the difference between the City Pages and the Star Tribune or New York Times can be seen immediately. ... The City Pages is quite simply a giant advertisement. ... The New York Times, The Star Tribune, The City Pages, and The Asian Pages are examples of different newspaper...

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The New York Times v. ... Sullivan, the City Commissioner of Montgomery, filed a libel action in the Circuit Court of the Montgomery County. ... The New York Times appealed and took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The majority was in favor of the New York Times. ... The New York Times v. ...

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Major Tallmadge settled his group of spies in the busy city of New York City. ... For five years the Culper Spy Ring's operation headquarters hid deep in the city of New York and around it. ... " Townsend was a reporter for an American Newspaper and owned a small dry goods store in the heart of New York City. ... He would hide the letters within a concealed package and race 110 miles to Setauket, New York. ... The British fell for the plan and commanded their fleets to retreat to New York, leaving the French fleet untouched. ...

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Lily Burana is a freelance journalist and essayist who has written for the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, GQ, NEW YORK magazine, VILLAGE VOICE, SPIN, and SALON. ... Barbie dances her way across Wyoming & Colorado en route to Las Vegas where she gets depressed by the city's "neon‑lashed moral vacuity". ... She writes about struggling in New York as a teenage actress wannabe. ... STRIP CITY is a great read with weighty subject matter dissected by a writer with a flair for words and phrases. ... STRIP CITY is for anyone who has ever wondered what women think about stripping ‑...

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Fog moving in from the ocean is normal to the city. Temperatures in the city are from layers of air. ... Milan, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires face similar problems. Although New York City produces greater quantities of pollutants than Los Angeles, it has been saved from an air-pollution disaster only because of its climate. Mountains, like Los Angeles, do not surround New York. ...

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The city of Paris provokes thoughts of romance, fine art, extravagant buildings, and is one of the most stylish cities in the world. ... Processes that have shaped the city into what we see today and will see in the future. ... Due to the dominance of London, New York or Tokyo, within the service industry Paris has struggled to match, but Paris still remains a considerable international business centre and is larger than other major European cities. ... "Haussman's plans intended to transform Paris from a medieval to a modern city". ... This pattern is similar to that in most other large...

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An officer smashed his head through a plate glass window, when Brock refused to go into the officer's lunchroom (Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department 14). ... He was handcuffed, thrown to the floor, repeatedly kicked, and beaten with the officer's nightstick (Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department 17). ... All of these victims mentioned are from minority groups, and were harmed by white New York City police officers. In less than four years fifty -five people have died while in being in police custody, in the...

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In New York City, where I grew up, it is not uncommon to see many neat stacks of newspapers and magazines lined up in every block waiting to be shipped somewhere for a more useful life other than going to a landfill. ... Recycling and care for the environment is more enforced in New York City than any other place I've ever been too. ... It should be done everywhere, not just in the Capital of the Universe - New York City. ... Before I was a teen, this great city was implementing its new recycling laws. ...

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A Comparison of the representation of New York in the openings of The Sopranos and Manhattan New York is a city well represented in the world of film and television. ... The overall impression of New York given by The Sopranos is one of a city with a dark side. Unlike many images of New York, this does not emphasise the city's glamorous side. ... Manhattan, on the other hand, places far greater emphasis on the traditional, cool, sophisticated image of New York as a city of dreams, of bright lights and a spectacularly beautiful man made horizon. ... He narrates the opening sequence as a...

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Walking along a river that led into the city. ... Lost in my own city. ... We frolicked like lambs and ran like bulls through the city. ... I had wrung the city dry of all that it could offer me. ... The ticket for New York in my hand. ...

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In fact, the city is the only real character. ... She describes the feelings, smells, sights, and sounds with such clarity that the city becomes a person to the reader. ... It is easy to see how six months can become eight years as she describes her love for the city and all the excitement it provides. ... Didion loves New York tremendously for several years, but as time wears on, the city begins to lose its appeal. ... Her depression grows worse until she eventually leaves the city. ...

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The streets of New York are busy as always. ... There have been many "lone wolf" style plots For example in 2009, Najibullah Zazi planned to bomb a New York subway system with a TATP chemical bomb. Zazi was already in New York City when he was arrested. He was already in New York at the time of his arrest. ... Four men planned to bomb synagogues in New York, and to shoot down military planes at a nearby Air Force base. ...

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Rap music originated in mid-1970 in south Bronx section of New York City. ... Although graffiti as a social movement first came out in New York during the late 1960s, it was not until almost a decade later that it began to develop elaborate styles and widespread attention. ... Hip hop thrived in the black and Puerto Rican communities in New York, but is now just recently beginning to enjoy wide spread exposure. ...

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Before and after the 1900's New York City was considered the "center of everything": finance, population, construction and good manufacturing (Roebling, 35). Among many other things, all had been formed in New York City. ... Brooklyn began to become more popular, businesses as well have New York City workers found homes there. ... A bridge over the East River, joining the cities of New York and Brooklyn, was not unheard of. ... Each anchorage would stand seven stories tall and cover most of a city block-larger than most buildings in New York at the time. ...

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The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities was characterized by "push" and "pull" factors. ... Harlem is a city within a city, the greatest Negro city in the world. ... Blacks took over an area that was basically just another New York City neighborhood and, with energy, music dance and determination to survive, turned it into an intentionally-known community. ... Wintz sates that, "This in turn, resulted in serious health problems, which gave Harlem the highest infant mortality and general mortality rates in New York City." ... By the mid to late 1920'...

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RENT seized the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; five awards for best musical, from the Tony Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Obie. ... The story starts out on Christmas Eve, in New York City. The building that they live in is next to an empty lot, in which a tent-city has sprung up. ... She was Mimi in the original New York cast, and you could tell. ...

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Today the Costa Nostra consists of 24 families based in various cities across the country. ... In the turn of the century in New York City, with the advent of Prohibition, financial opportunities became quite large for those willing to defy and soon organized crime activity spread. ... The increase of felonies was due to contributing fact of organized crime especially in larger cities. ... Large cities were the main location for organized gangs to flourish. ... By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. ...

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