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New York City Police Department Combat Cross The Police Combat Cross is the second highest departmental award of the New York City Police Department. The Police Combat Cross is awarded to police officers who, "having received Honorable Mention awards, successfully and intelligently perform an act of extraordinary heroism while engaged in personal combat with an armed adversary under circumstances of imminent personal hazard to life.
New York City Police Department Highway Patrol The NYPD Highway Patrol -- also known as the NYPD Highway District -- is a specialized unit under the auspices of the NYPD's Transportation Bureau primarily responsible for patrolling and maintaining traffic safety on limited-access highways within New York City. The NYPD Highway Patrol's other duties and roles include accident investigations, advanced driver and radar training for NYPD officers, field sobriety testing, dignitary and parade escorts, hazardous material and truck traffic enforcement, anti-drag racing programs, and anti-terrorist checkpoints at key bridges and intersections in the city.
New York City Police Department Housing Bureau The New York City Police Department Housing Bureau is responsible for providing the security and delivery of police services to about 420,000 people using public housing throughout New York City. They are stationed in Police Service Areas (PSA), which are almost identical to police precincts, with nine PSAs in total located throughout the five boroughs.
New York City Police Department Medal for Valor The New York City Police Department's Medal for Valor is the department's third highest medal. It is conferred upon police officers for acts of outstanding personal bravery intelligently performed in the line of duty at imminent personal hazard to life under circumstances evincing a disregard of personal consequences.
New York City Police Department Medal of Honor The New York City Police Department Medal of Honor is the highest law enforcement medal of the New York City Police Department. The Medal of Honor is awarded for individual acts of extraordinary bravery performed in the line of duty at extreme risk and danger to life.
New York City Police Department Medal of Valor As the New York City Police Department's third highest medal, the Medal for Valor is conferred upon police officers for acts of outstanding personal bravery intelligently performed in the line of duty at imminent personal hazard to life under circumstances evincing a disregard of personal consequences.
New York City Police Museum The New York City Police Museum (NYCPM) celebrates the history and contributions of the 158-year history of the New York City Police Department. The museum is located in Lower Manhattan in New York City, near Wall Street and the South Street Seaport.
New York City secession New York City secession, the secession of New York City (and possibly neighboring areas) from New York State and/or the United States, has been proposed several times in history. These movements have been in some ways just extreme manifestations of the ordinary tensions between the city area and the government based in the economically and politically distinct Upstate New York region at Albany.
New York City Subway main line, which is considered to be the first New York City "subway" line, opened in 1904; however, the Ninth Avenue Line, a predecessor elevated railroad line, operated its first trial run on July 3, 1868, according to Facts and Figures 1979-80, published by the New York City Transit Authority See also nycsubway.org, and the West End Line railroad opened in 1863.
New York City Subway accessibility Over sixty stations on the New York City Subway system are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The MTA has been gradually adding handicapped access to its key stations as renovations take place.
New York City Subway in popular culture The New York City Subway is often seen as an integral part of the city and has had a place in popular culture for at least three quarters of a century. Many living in the area through the 1980s remember it for crime and graffiti, but these have since subsided.
New York City Subway nomenclature New York City Subway nomenclature describes terminology used on the New York City Subway system as derived from railroading practice, historical origins of the system, and engineering, publicity, and legal usage. These include line names, which refer to individual sections of subway, like the BMT Brighton Line; service labels, like the , which is a single train route along several lines; and station names, like Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue.
New York City Subway rolling stock The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system, and has a large fleet of rolling stock. Old cars, some from the original companies (IRT and BMT), are preserved at the New York Transit Museum, while others have been sold to private individuals, rail and trolley museums.
New York City Teaching Fellows The NYC Teaching Fellows is an alternative certification program. It was founded in August, 2000 as a collaboration between The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and the New York City Board of Education to address and respond to the largest teacher shortage the NYC Department of Education had faced in decades.
New York City Transit buses In the United States, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) and its subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), operates roughly 4500 busesAbout New York City Transit: Buses (about 1500 of those belonging to the MaBSTOA) on about 200 local and 40 express routesMTA NYC Transit - Bus Route Information within the five boroughs of New York City. The bus system is meant to complement the MTA's rail lines - the New York City Subway, Staten Island Rapid Transit, Long Island Rail Road, and Metro-North Railroad.
New York City Transit Police Established in 1935, the New York City Transit Police Department was responsible for the protection of New York City Subway lines for 60 years. It was made famous in several films including The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Money Train.
New York Civil Liberties Union New York Civil Liberties Union, commonly referred to as the NYCLU is a non-profit civil rights organization based in New York. It was founded by Norman Siegel in 1951 and its primary purpose is to defend New Yorkers who believe their rights have been abused or if a law is unconstitutional.
New York Clipper The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924. It covered many topics, including circuses, dance, music, the outdoors, sports, and theatre.
New York Cocoa Exchange The New York Cocoa Exchange (NYCE) was the world's first cocoa futures market. It began operations in Manhattan's Financial District during 1925 and merged with the Coffee and Sugar Exchange in 1979 to form the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc.
New York Collegiate Baseball League The New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) is a 14-team amateur summer baseball league founded in 1978 and sanctioned by the NACSB and Major League Baseball. Each NYCBL team plays an eight-week, 44-game schedule from June to July with a playoff in early August.
New York Community Bank New York Community Bank is the banking division of the pubicly traded company New York Bancorp. They were founded in 1859 in Flushing, Queens as Queens County Savings Bank, and changed their name on December 15, 2000 to New York Community Bank to better reflect their market area beyond Queens.
New York Comptroller election, 2006 The 2006 New York Comptroller Election took place on November 7, 2006 with the incumbent, Alan Hevesi winning against Republican challanger Chris Callaghan. Hevesi was plagued by scandals during the campaign involving misuse of state funds.
New York Cosmos The New York Cosmos (1971-1985), known simply as the Cosmos for the 1977 and 1978 seasons, was a franchise in the North American Soccer League, based in New York City and its suburbs. Founded by the legendary Ahmet and Nasuhi ErtegĂĽn brothers of Atlantic Records, it was one of the stronger NASL franchises, both athletically and financially.
New York Cotton Exchange The New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE) was founded in 1870 by a group of one hundred cotton brokers and merchants at One Hanover Square in New York City, New York. The oldest commodities exchange in the city, well into the 20th Century cotton was a leading American commodity for both export and domestic consumption.
New York County Medical Society The New York County Medical Society is a professional membership organization for physicians who live or work in the Borough of Manhattan. As such, it is part of the larger network of medical organizations which includes the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York.
New York Court of Appeals The Court of Appeals is New York's highest appellate court, created in 1847, replacing the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors. It consists of seven judges—one chief judge and six associate judges—who are now appointed by the governor to 14-year terms, having formerly been elected.
New York Cross Harbor Railroad New York Cross Harbor Railroad operates the only rail-float barge operation in the New York Harbor. NYCH serves businesses on both sides of the harbor with daily crossings between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York.
New York Cubans The New York Cubans were a Negro Leagues baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro Leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in general were largely ignored by the major league baseball teams before Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time.
New York dialect The New York dialect of the English language is spoken by most European Americans who were raised in New York City and much of its metropolitan area including southern Westchester and Rockland counties, Long Island, and in northeastern New Jersey. It is often considered to be one of the most recognizable accents within American English (Newman 2005).
New York divorce law New York only recognizes divorces based upon fault based criteria, though the parties may agree to enter into a separation and have the separation agreement or judgment be the further basis for a divorce after one year. The parties may also agree to an uncontested divorce as long as one of the parties is willing to allege one of the fault based grounds or has the requisite separation agreement or judgment.
New York Daily Mirror The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published in 1924 in New York City by the William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets, the Evening Journal and New York American, later consolidated into the "New York Journal American". It was created to compete with the New York Daily News which was then a sensationalist tabloid and the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States.
New York Dance & Arts Innovations Inc. New York Dance & Arts Innovations Inc. (NYDAI) is a non-profit New York City organization established with the aim of multi-national creative support and promotion of the performing, visual and literary arts.
New York Derby The New York Derby is the second leg of the "Big Apple Triple," a grouping of three races in New York state for New York breds. A horse who wins all three of the Big Apple Triple wins the purse total of $400,000 plus a $250,000 bonus.
New York Downtown Hospital New York Downtown Hospital (previously known as NYU Downtown Hospital) is a not-for-profit, acute (medical) care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan. Downtown Hospital operates 170 beds, and offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as community outreach and education.
New York Draft Riots The New York Draft Riots (July 13 to July 16, 1863; known at the time as Draft Weekwere a series of violent disturbances in New York City] that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by [[United States Congress|Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln sent several regiments of militia and volunteer troops to control the city.
New York Eagles The New York Eagles were a professional soccer franchise that played in the American Soccer League from 1978 to 1981, with a one-year hiatus in 1980. The franchise played its first season in Mount Vernon, New York, then moved to Albany, New York for the 1979 and 1981 seasons, playing at Albany's Bleecker Stadium.
New York Etching Club The New York Etching Club was the first professional organization in America devoted to the medium of etching. Its founders were inspired by the Etching revival that had blossomed in France and England in the middle 19th century.
New York FileMaker Developers' Group The New York FileMaker Developers' Group began as the New York FileMaker User Group in the late 1990s, assembling a cross section of FileMaker users and developers at monthly meetings in Manhattan. It has become a well-known source of FileMaker expertise in the New York area.
New York Filipino Film Festival The New York Filipino Film Festival is a week-long event that features an array of Filipino-oriented and Filipino-made movies in New York City's ImaginAsian Theatre. This event correlates with the celebration of Philippine Independence in the month of June.
New York Film Critics Circle Awards New York Film Critics Circle Awards are given annually to honor excellence in cinema worldwide by an organization of film reviewers from New York City-based publications. It is considered one of the most important precursors to the Academy Awards.
New York Fries New York Fries is a Canadian fast food restaurant that serves french fries and hot dogs as its main menu items. They also serve poutine, The Works (with chili, cheese sauce, sour cream, bacon bits and green onions), and Veggie Works (with cheese sauce, sour cream, tomatoes and green onions).
New York gubernatorial election, 2002 The New York gubernatorial election of 2002 was an election for the state governorship held on November 5, 2002. Governor George Pataki, the two-term Republican incumbent, was re-elected with 49% of the vote, defeating both the Democratic nominee, State Comptroller Carl McCall and Independence Party candidate Tom Golisano.
New York gubernatorial election, 2006 The New York gubernatorial election of 2006 was a race for the state governorship. Eliot Spitzer was elected on November 7, 2006 and will serve between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2010 and will be up for reelection in 2010.
New York GAA The New York County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Nua Eabhrac) , or New York GAA, is one of the county boards of the GAA outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in the New York metropolitan area. The county board is also responsible for the New York football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is a non-profit educational institution based in New York City. It was founded in 1869 and its purpose is to collect and make available information on genealogy, biography, and history, particularly as it relates to the people of New York State.
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York City metropolitan area. The team is headquartered, trains, and plays its home games at Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in the suburb of East Rutherford, New Jersey.
New York Giants (Brickley's) New York Giants (informally known as "Brickley's Giants") was a professional football team with the American Professional Football Association (now NFL) whose only season played was in 1921. Home games were at the Polo Grounds.
New York Graphic The New York Graphic (not to be confused with The Daily Graphic) was a tabloid published from 1924 to 1932 by physical culture promoter and publishing mogul Bernarr Macfadden.Yagoda, Ben (1981), "The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden," American Heritage 33(1), December, 1981; reference used for this article was the online version, (Published 1924-32; "low point in American journalism;" examples of headlines; "educated readers ...
New York Groove "New York Groove" is a song written by Russ Ballard and performed by Ace Frehley on his self titled record in 1978 (originally recorded by Hello in 1975, and a top ten hit in the United Kingdom and Germany in that version).
New York high-speed rail High-speed rail in New York State has been a topic that is consistently discussed among legislators, political leaders and in particular, several past governors since the 1990s, but thus far little progress has been made. In his campaign speeches prior to his defeat to Governor George Pataki in 1994, Mario Cuomo promised to bring high speed (maglev) rail up the Hudson Valley and along the Catskill Mountain routeFor New York, steel-wheel plus maglev is envisioned - New York State passenger rail upgrades Railway Age, Dec, 1993.
New York Hall of Science The New York Hall of Science occupies one of the few remaining structures of the 1964 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Today, it stands as New York City's only hands-on science and technology center.
New York Hamster House The New York Hamster House (or "NYHH" for short) is a nonprofit shelter for homeless hamsters in the New York City area, founded in June 2005 by professional fundraiser Jessica Wells, a Barnard College alumna and Manhattan resident. Ms.
New York Handicap The New York Handicap (also known as the New York Breeders' Cup Handicap) is a race for thoroughbred horses open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the Belmont Park turf. A Grade II event, it offers a purse of $250,000.
New York Handicap Triple The New York Handicap Triple is the name sometimes used to refer to three American Graded stakes races for Thoroughbred racehorses run by the New York Racing Association at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The three races consist of the:
New York Harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey".
New York Harbor School New York Harbor School is a unique school that relates every aspect of its curriculum to the water. In New York Harbor School the freshman visit their outdoor laboratory - New York Harbor - every Tuesday and Thursday.
New York Heart Association Functional Classification The New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification provides a simple way of classifying the extent of heart failure. It places patients in one of four categories based on how much they are limited during physical activity:
New York Herald Tribune The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. The Herald Tribune was a leading Republican paper, and a voice for moderate "internationalist" Republicans as opposed to the "isolationist" variety represented by the Chicago Tribune.
New York Institute for the Humanities The New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH) is an academic organisation affiliated with New York University, founded by Richard Sennett in 1976 to promote the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals and the general public. The NYIH regularly holds seminars open to the public, as well as meetings for its approximately 150 Fellows.
New York Institute of Technology School of Management The New York Institute of Technology's School of Management (also known as NYIT SOM or NYIT School of Management) is the business school of the New York Institute of Technology. The NYIT School of Management offers graduate degrees in two distinct programs: a Masters in Business Administration degree (M.
New York International Documentary Festival The New York International Documentary Festival (Docfest) is an annual documentary film festival held in New York City. It was established as both a forum for the exchange of ideas among documentary filmmakers and a place where audiences would be exposed to both successful and little-known documentaries.
New York International Fringe Festival The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown New York City, notably the Lower East Side, the East Village, and Greenwich Village.
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) is a film screening event in various American cities. It was founded in 1993 and says it has been recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film events on the independent festival circuit.
New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
New York Jets Bike The New York Jets Bike was a motorcycle built by Orange County Choppers on the American reality television show American Chopper. The American Chopper gang has always had major New York pride, being from Orange County, New York.
New York Journal American The New York Journal American was a newspaper published from 1937 to 1966. The Journal American was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst: The New York American (originally the New York Journal, renamed American in 1901, published by Hearst 1895-1937), a morning paper, and the New York Evening Journal, an afternoon paper, published 1895-1937.
New York Korean Film Festival The New York Korean Film Festival was created by Korean Film Forum and Subwaycinema in 2001. From 2002 to 2003, Korean Film Forum held New York Korean Film Festival while Subwaycinema has held New York Asian Film Festival since 2002.
New York Latino English New York Latino English, sometimes called, Nuyorican English is a form of New York dialect. It originated with the post war Puerto Rican immigration to New York City and particularly the subsequent generations born in the New York dialect region who were native speakers of both English and Spanish.
New York Law Journal Founded in 1888, the New York Law Journal is the top-selling legal daily in the United States. The newspaper covers legal news, decisions, court calendars, and legislation, and provides analysis and insight in columns written by leading professionals.
New York Legal Assistance Group The New York Legal Assistance Group(NYLAG) is a nonprofit organization that offers vulnerable New Yorkers the legal help they critically need. NYLAG’s mission is to provide free, civil legal services to poor and near poor individuals and families residing in the five boroughs of New York City who would otherwise be unable to access legal assistance.
New York Liberty The New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association] (WNBA) team based in [[New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history.
New York Line The New York Line was an administrative division within the Continental Army. It comprised the New York quota of ordinary infantry regiments raised for general service which, together with similar quotas from other states, formed the Continental Line.
New York minute (time) A New York minute is a very short period of time, sometimes significantly shorter than sixty seconds, and sometimes a form of hyperbole for "perhaps faster than you would believe is possible". The term refers to the common perception that New York City is very busy, with much happening at all hours of the day, and people often in a hurry and likely to be impatient.
New York Manumission Society The New York Manumission Society was an early American organization founded in 1785 to promote the abolition of African slaves in the state of New York. The organization was made up entirely of white men, most of whom were wealthy and held influential positions in society.
New York Mercantile Exchange The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange, located in New York City. Its two principal divisions are the New York Mercantile Exchange and the New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX) which were once independent companies but are now merged.
New York Metropolitans The Metropolitan Club (the New York Metropolitans or the Mets) was a 19th century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. Metropolitan Baseball Club of New York is the name chosen in 1960 for the current day New York Mets although the legal name has changed from time to time as in Sterling Doubleday Enterprises.
New York Mets all-time roster Below is an alphabetical list of every player that has played for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball since the franchise's inception in 1962. Included are the seasons in which they played for the Mets and their primary position(s).
New York Mirror The New-York Mirror was a newspaper published in New York City under many variant titles, remembered by students of American literature for printing the first editions of poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It commenced in 1823 as The New-York Mirror and Ladies's Literary Gazette.
New York Mutuals The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York was a leading American baseball club almost throughout its 20-year history. It was established during 1857, the year of the first base ball convention, just too late to be a founding member of the National Association of Base Ball Players.
New York Mycological Society The New York Mycological Society is a nonprofit organization of 150 members who share an interest in mycology as well as in mycophagy. The present NYMS was reincarnated some 40 years ago by the composer John Cage and a small group of other mushroom lovers and students.
New York Nationals The New York Nationals are a basketball team that has been the regular opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters since 1995. The Nationals replaced the Washington Generals, who previously served as the Globetrotters' hapless rivals.
New York Peace Society The New York Peace Society was the first peace society to be established in the United States. It has had several different incarnations, as it has merged into other organizations or dissolved and then been re-created.
New York Percussion Trio The New York Percussion Trio was a three-member percussion ensemble active in the New York City area from the early 1950s until the mid-1970s. The group consisted of Ronald Gould, Arnold Goldberg, and David Shapiro (Shapiro was later replaced by Rolf Barnes, though he later rejoined the group).
New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, formed in 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has always been considered one of the top symphonies in the world.
New York Pitbulls The New York Pitbulls are an International Fight League team based in NYC, New York. Coached by Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert and MMA veteran Renzo Gracie, the Pitbulls were one of four teams competing in the IFL's inaugural season.
New York Poets Theatre The New York Poets Theatre was an influential theatre company active in New York, NY in the 1960s. It was founded in October of 1961 by poets James Waring, John Herbert McDowell, LeRoi Jones, Alan Marlowe and Diane Di Prima.
New York Point New York Point is a system of writing for the blind invented by William Bell Wait (1839-1916), a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. The system used three bases of equidistant points arranged in two lines (thus—: :: :::), and assigned the most common letters to the configurations with the fewest points.
New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.Michael & Edward Emery, The Press and America, 7th edition, Simon & Schuster, 1992, p.
New York Power Authority The New York Power Authority (or NYPA) is a New York State public benefit corporation and the largest state-owned power organization in the United States. NYPA provides some of the lowest-cost electricity in New York State, operating 17 generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.
New York Press New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. It is the main competitor to the Village Voice, although some competition is currently offered by two other free papers with local listings, The L Magazine and The Onion.
New York Public Advocate The office of Public Advocate of New York is a citywide elected position, first in line to the Mayor, which serves as a direct link between the electorate and city government, effectively acting as an ombudsman, or "watchdog," for New Yorkers.
New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL), one of three public library systems serving New York City, is one of the leading libraries in the United States. The other New York City public systems are those of Brooklyn and Queens.
New York reload A New York reload is used to refer to the action of drawing a second gun when the first jams or runs empty, rather than reloading the first, often providing a slight speed advantage. It originated with New York City policemen who would carry a backup revolver rather than an unwieldy speed loader.
New York Racing Association The New York Racing Association is the non-profit management group that runs the three largest thoroughbred horse-racing tracks in the state of New York. It runs Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens, Belmont Park in Elmont, Long Island (just outside New York City), and Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.
New York Radical Feminists New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone in 1969, after she left Redstockings. Central to NYRF's idea was the idea that men consciously maintained power over women in order to strenthen their egos, but also held that in many ways women internalized their subordination by diminishing their egos and that consciousness raising was key to liberating women from this ingrained subordination.
New York Railways New York State Railways was a grouping of several large city streetcar and electric interurban systems in upstate New York. It included the city transit systems in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Oneida and Rome, plus various interurban lines connecting those cities.
New York Rap From its beginnings in the ghettos of the South Bronx to its nationwide acceptance New York Rap has always been more about the lyrics than the beats. Be it the club banging tunes of the Sugarhill Gang & 50 Cent to the political messages of Public Enemy New York Rap has undoubtely changed the music world and birthing other forms of Hip Hop Music across the world.
New York Renaissance The New York Renaissance, also known as the Rens, were an all-black professional basketball team founded in 1922, a few years before the Harlem Globetrotters. They were named after the Harlem Renaissance Casino, an upscale reception hall of that time, which served as their titular home court.
New York Renaissance Faire The New York Renaissance Faire is located in Tuxedo, New York off Route 17a. NYRF, along with the faires of Southern California and Bristol, is one of the three American Renaissance Faires owned by the Renaissance Entertainment Corporation.
New York Restaurant Week New York Restaurant Week is an event held twice a year in which participating restaurants in New York City offer fixed-price lunches and dinners. At the finest restaurants, this can be a fraction of the usual prices.

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