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New York State Route 910D Washington Avenue Extension is a superhighway extension of Washington Avenue in Albany, commencing at NY 155/CR 157 and Karner Road, ending at CR 156 and Fuller Road in Albany and continuing eastward as Washington Avenue.
New York State Route 911H Altamont Avenue is a thoroughfare business road in the Schenectady County town of Rotterdam, commencing at NY 7 and Curry Road and ending at the Schenectady city line south of Chrisler Avenue. Altamont Avenue continues as a surface street north of that point.
New York State Route 914T Balltown Road south of Union Street, Schenectady is a short two-lane highway just east of the city limits, running from NY 5 to its intersection with Union Street where NY 146 meets. NY 146 east continues north.
New York State Route 93 New York State Route 93 is a state highway in New York, USA. This highway runs in a northwest-southeast direction between Youngstown, New York in the Town of Porter (Niagara County) and Akron in the Town of Newstead (Erie County).
New York State Route 94 New York State Route 94 is a state highway in southern New York, entirely within Orange County. The western terminus is at the New York-New Jersey state line, continued from New Jersey's Route 94 south of Warwick, and the eastern terminus is located at the intersection with US-9W in New Windsor.
New York State Route 940U New York State Route 940U is a short Reference Route that connects New York State Route 153 to Interstate 490 in the town of East Rochester. The route runs from I-490 east down West Commercial Street to South Washington Street (NY 153).
New York State Route 950A New York State Route 950A, referred to as the "West Bank Perimeter Road," is among the longest non-parkway reference routes in New York. Stretching from north to south along the western bank of the Allegheny Reservoir, the road runs south from Interstate 86/New York State Route 17 exit 17, the eastern terminus of NY 394, in the Cold Spring hamlet of Steamburg southward through the town of South Valley to the Pennsylvania state line.
New York State Route 951T New York State Route 951T is a 4 mile long reference route connecting Cold Spring with Salamanca in Cattaraugus County, New York. The route follows the former routing of New York State Route 17 between Interstate 86/NY 17 exit 17 and New York State Route 394 in the hamlet of Steamburg and I-86/NY 17 exit 20 and New York State Route 417 in the city of Salamanca.
New York State Route 96 New York State Route 96 is a major northwest-southeast highway, signed north-south, in New York that runs from Owego, Tioga County in the Southern Tier north to downtown Rochester, Monroe County in western New York, passing through Waterloo and Ithaca along the way.
New York State Route 962J New York State Route 962J is a north-south running reference route that has been erroneously signed as a touring route in Tioga County. Its southern terminus is at NY 434 in Apalachin and its northern terminus is at NY 17C in Campville.
New York State Route 96A New York State Route 96A is a state highway in the Finger Lakes District of New York, USA. The highway is entirely within Seneca County and is a north-south road between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, two of the large Finger Lakes.
New York State Route 98 New York State Route 98 is a state highway in the western part of New York in the USA. NY 98 is a north-south route that has its southern end in the Town of Great Valley in Cattaraugus County, New York, where it connects to U.
New York State Route 990H New York State Route 990H is an unsigned reference route occupying Chenango Street in the Binghamton suburb of Port Dickinson. The southern terminus of the route is at the Binghamton city line near Bromley Avenue.
New York State Route 990L New York State Route 990L (officially New York State Reference Route 990L) is a New York State Reference Route in the Chenango County city of Norwich. It is one of only four reference routes that has been marked as a touring route.
New York State Route 990V New York State Route 990V (officially New York State Reference Route 990V) is a New York State Reference Route in Schoharie County, New York. It is one of only four reference routes that has been marked as a touring route and is the highest-numbered state highway in New York State.
New York State Route 9D New York State Route 9D (NY 9D), also known as the Bear Mountain-Beacon Highway, is a north-south road that runs along the eastern shore of the Hudson River. It starts at the eastern end of the Bear Mountain Bridge (at US 6/US 202) in Westchester County, and ends at the intersection of Vassar Road (Dutchess County Route 77) and U.
New York State Route 9G New York State Route 9G runs north from US 9 at Poughkeepsie, New York, starting out as Violet Avenue, then following the Hudson River mostly along the eastern side of the US 9, crossing over Route 9 just north of Rhinebeck, New York, then running on the western side of US 9, closer to the Hudson River, finally terminating at the junction again with US 9 in Hudson, New York.
New York State Route 9J New York State Route 9J is a state highway in the Hudson Valley region of New York, located within Columbia and Rensselaer counties. The route runs from US 9 at its southern end in the hamlet of Columbiaville (in the Town of Stockport) to its northern end in Rensselaer at US 9 and US 20.
New York State Sheep and Wool Festival The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival is a large gathering of fiber-arts enthusiasts (knitters, crocheters, handspinners, etc.), growers of natural-fiber-producing livestock (sheep, goats, angora rabbits, llamas, alpaca, etc.
New York State Tenement House Act One of the reforms of the Progressive Era, the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 was one of the first such laws to ban the construction of dark, airless tenement buildings in the state of New York. Among other sanctions, the law required that new buildings must be built with windows, an open courtyard, indoor toilets and fire safeguards.
New York State Theater The New York State Theater is part of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall (home of the New York Philharmonic).
New York State United Teachers New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is a 575,000-member New York state teachers union, affiliated since 2006 with both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), AFL-CIO and the National Education Association (NEA). NYSUT is an umbrella group which provides services to local affiliates in New York state; lobbies on the local, state and federal level; conducts research; and organizes new members.
New York State wine New York State wine history began when the Dutch planted grapes when they settled the state and the Brotherhood Winery has been making wine for almost 350 years. Because of the cold climate grapes sometimes don’t fully ripen and winemakers may "chaptalize" and add sugar as in Burgundy and Oregon.
New York Steel New York Steel was a benefit concert emceed by Eddie Trunk and Mike Piazza, featuring heavy metal musicians, that took place on November 28, 2001 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board," is a New York City-based privately-owned stock exchange by the NYSE Group (NYX). It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and the second largest by number of companies listed.
New York Sun (historical) The original New York Sun began publication September 3, 1833, as a morning newspaper (edited by Benjamin Day with the slogan "It shines for All"); an evening edition was introduced in 1887. The morning edition of the Sun was subsumed by the New York Herald in 1919.
New York Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the basic New York State trial court of general jurisdiction. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some of the smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties.
New York Surrogate's Court The New York State Surrogate's Court is the court that handles all probate and estate proceedings in the State of New York. All wills are probated in this court and all estates of people who die without a will are handled in this court.
New York Tapers The Philadelphia Tapers were originally the New York Tapers, an NABL club team sponsored by the Tuck Tape Company. They were a top AAU club team in the 1950's featuring many former collegiate stars and pro players.
New York Theatre Ballet New York Theatre Ballet (or the NYTB) was founded in 1978 by its artistic director, Diana Byer. Dedicated to the principles of the Cecchetti-Diaghilev tradition, the company both reprises classic masterworks and produces original ballets.
New York Theological Seminary The New York Theological Seminary was established as a non-denominational institution in 1900 with the founding of the Bible Teachers’ College in Montclair, New Jersey by Wilbert Webster White. President White moved the school to New York City in 1902, when it was renamed the Bible Teachers’ Training School.
New York Times Best Seller list The New York Times Best Seller List is widely considered to be the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.John Bear, The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992Rep.
New York Times Building The New York Times Building is a skyscraper currently under construction on the west side of Midtown Manhattan, New York. Its chief tenant will be The New York Times Company, publisher of the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, as well as other regional papers, and radio and television stations.
New York Transit Museum The New York Transit Museum is a museum which displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway and bus systems; it is located in the unused Court Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. There is a smaller annex in Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan.
New York Tunnel Extension The New York Tunnel Extension (also New York Improvement and Tunnel Extension), owned by the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad, was an important part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, comprising the tunnels and approaches from New Jersey and Long Island to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The North River Tunnels pass under the Hudson River and the East River Tunnels pass under the East River.
New York Turf Writers Cup The New York Turf Writers Cup is a steeplechase race for thoroughbred horses held at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York each year. A Grade I event on the turf for 4-year-olds and up, this race offers a purse of $150,000.
New York Underground Film Festival Founded in 1994, the New York Underground Film Festival occurs each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. It is noted for documentary and experimental film programming, and has occasionally courted controversy, particularly in its early years.
New York University College of Arts and Science The College of Arts and Science of New York University (CAS) is the oldest school at NYU, founded in 1832. It is located at NYU's Washington Square Campus and its administrative office resides in the Silver Center.
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science The NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science is one of 14 divisions within New York University (NYU) and was founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell MacCracken, establishing NYU as the second academic institution in the United States to grant Ph.D.
New York University Institute of Fine Arts The Institute of fine Arts is one of the 14 divisions of New York University (NYU). It offers a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy, the Advanced Certificate in Conservation of Works of Art and the Certificate in Curatorial Studies (issued jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
New York University School of Medicine The New York University School of Medicine was founded in 1841, ten years after the New York University's founding, as the University Medical College. It has been involved in some of the most important events in American medicine.
New York weevil The New York weevil (Ithycerus noveboracensis) is an species of primitive weevil; large for weevils (12-18 mm), it is covered with fine bristles and has a regular pattern of light and dark spots. It occurs in the eastern United States and southern Canada.
New York Week in Review New York Week in Review is a weekly broadcast PBS-TV program covering New York State government and politics. Like national PBS show Washington Week in Review, it features a round table of reporters as weekly guests like Elizabeth Benjamin and James Odato of the Albany Times-Union.
New York Wine Tasting of 1973 The New York Wine Tasting of 1973 was organized by pioneering alcohol journalist Robert Lawrence Balzer. He assembled 14 leading wine experts including France’s Alexis Lichine, who owned two Chateaux in Bordeaux, a manager of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, and Sam Aaron, a prominent New York wine merchant.
New York World Building The New York World Building was a skyscraper in New York City built in 1890 to house the now defunct paper, The New York World. At 309 ft (94 m) tall it is thought to be the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1890 until 1894 when it was surpassed by the Manhattan Life Insurance Building.
New York World Journal Tribune The New York World Journal Tribune was a newspaper that grew out of an attempt to save several historic New York City newspapers by a merger in 1966. It was a financial failure, however, and lasted for only a short period before shutting down entirely.
New York World-Telegram The New York World-Telegram was formed by the 1931 sale of the New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard, owners since 1927 of the Evening Telegram. More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in this merger, though some star writers like Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler were kept on the new paper.
New York Yacht Club The New York Yacht Club is a private yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the world's most distinguished and influential yachting institutions, and many members, past and present, have contributed to the sport of yachting and yacht design.
New York Yankees (AAFC) The New York Yankees were a professional American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. The team played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and often played in front of sold-out crowds .
New York Yanks The New York Yanks American football team started in the National Football League in 1949 after Boston Yanks owner Ted Collins requested the league to fold his Boston team and give him a new one in New York City. Collins' new team began operations as the New York Bulldogs and played at the Polo Grounds.
New York Zendo Shobo-Ji New York Zendo Shobo-Ji (or, Temple of True Dharma) is a Rinzai Zen Center located in the upper East Side of Manhattan, NY founded on September 15, 1968 by Soen Nakagawa Roshi. The building had been converted from a 3 story home, and the ground floor level is where the Zendo (meditation hall) and a smaller adjacent Zendo rests.
New York's 10th congressional district New York's 10th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in Brooklyn. It includes the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York, as well as parts of Fort Greene and Williamsburg.
New York's 11th congressional district New York's 11th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in Brooklyn. It includes the neighborhoods of Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Kensington.
New York's 13th congressional district New York's 13th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It includes all of Staten Island and the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Gravesend in Brooklyn.
New York's 14th congressional district New York's 14th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It includes most of the East Side of Manhattan, all of Roosevelt Island and the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, and Sunnyside in Queens.
New York's 15th congressional district New York's 15th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It is comprised of Upper Manhattan, Rikers Island and a largely non-residential section of northwestern Queens on the shore of the East River mostly occupied by the Consolidated Edison power plant.
New York's 16th congressional district New York's 16th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in the Bronx. The district includes the neighborhoods of Bedford Park, East Tremont, Fordham, Hunts Point, Melrose, Morrisania, Mott Haven and University Heights.
New York's 17th congressional district New York's 17th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in Southern New York. It encompasses portions of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Rockland County.
New York's 18th congressional district The 18th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in the northern suburbs of New York City. It includes most of Westchester County and part of Rockland County.
New York's 19th congressional district United States House of Representative, New York District 19 is located in the southern part of the State of New York in the USA. District 19 is north of New York City and is composed of parts of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties.
New York's 1st congressional district The 1st Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in eastern Long Island. It includes most of Central and Eastern Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, as well as the entirety of the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, and Shelter Island.
New York's 20th congressional district The 20th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in eastern New York. It includes all or parts of Columbia, Dutchess, Delaware, Essex, Greene, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties.
New York's 21st congressional district The 21st Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that contains most of the Capital District of New York. It includes all or parts of Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Schoharie counties.
New York's 22nd congressional district The 22nd Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that includes all or parts of Broome, Delaware, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, and Ulster counties. It includes the cities of Binghamton, Ithaca, Kingston, Middletown, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie.
New York's 23rd congressional district The 23rd Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Northern New York. The district includes all or parts of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego and St.
New York's 25th congressional district The 25th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that stretches from Syracuse to the northeastern suburbs of Rochester. The district comprises all of Onondaga and Wayne counties, the northernmost portion of Cayuga County and the towns of Irondequoit, Penfield, and Webster in Monroe County.
New York's 26th congressional district The 26th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Western New York. It includes all or parts of Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties.
New York's 27th congressional district The 27th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Western New York. It includes all of Chautauqua County and the southern part of Erie County.
New York's 28th congressional district The Twenty-eighth district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in northwest New York. The district is based in Rochester and Buffalo and includes parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Orleans Counties.
New York's 29th congressional district The Twenty-ninth district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives which covers the portion of the Appalachian mountains in New York known as the "Southern Tier."
New York's 2nd congressional district The 2nd Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in central Long Island. It includes all of the town of Huntington and parts of the towns of Babylon, Islip, and Smithtown in Suffolk County as well as part of the town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County.
New York's 3rd congressional district The 3rd District of New York is generally the eastern half of Nassau County, with some parts as far west as Island Park and Long Beach. The Nassau portion contains suburban communities such as Bellmore, Bethpage, Farmingdale, Hicksville, Levittown, Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Merrick, North Bellmore, North Merrick, Seaford, Syosset, and Wantagh.
New York's 41st State Senate District The 41st District seat of the New York State Senate is currently held by Stephen Saland (R) (elected 1990)2006 he defeated Brian Keeler](D), a [[netroots politician and blogger Brian Keeler, to retain his seat.
New York's 45th congressional district The 45th Congressional District of New York was a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York. It was created in 1945 and eliminated eight years later as a result of the 1950 Census.
New York's 4th congressional district The 4th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in west-central Nassau County. It includes the communities of Baldwin, East Meadow, East Rockaway, Elmont, the Five Towns, Lynbrook, Floral Park, Franklin Square, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, New Hyde Park, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Valley Stream and Westbury.
New York's 5th congressional district The 5th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that lies along the North Shore of Long Island. It is comprised of Northeastern Queens County and Northwestern Nassau County.
New York's 6th congressional district New York's Sixth Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City. It includes most of Southeastern Queens including the neighborhoods of Cambria Heights, Edgemere, Far Rockaway, Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park, as well as John F.
New York's 7th congressional district New York's Seventh Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City. It is comprised of parts of Northern Queens and Eastern portions of the Bronx.
New York's Village Halloween Parade New York's Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant presented the night of every Halloween (October 31) in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Stretching more than a mile, this cultural event draws two million spectators, fifty thousand costumed participants, dancers, artists and circus performers, dozens of floats bearing live bands and other musical and performing acts, and a world-wide television audience of one hundred million.
New York-Chicago Toll Road system The New York-Chicago Toll Road system consists of a nearly-unbroken series of toll roads, all relatively early expressways, nearly connecting Manhattan in the east and downtown Chicago in the west. Beginning near the George Washington Bridge, connected by a short freeway segment as a bridge approach, the system consists of the northern part of the New Jersey Turnpike, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the connector between the New Jersey Turnpike and the Pennsylvania Turnpike itself a toll road, the Ohio Turnpike, the Indiana Toll Road, and the Chicago Skyway, which feeds into the Dan Ryan Expressway leading to and from downtown Chicago.
New York-New Jersey Highlands The New York - New Jersey Highlands is a geological formation composed primarily of precambrian igneous and metamorphic rock running from the Delaware River near Musconetcong Mountain, northeast through the Skylands Region of New Jersey along the Bearfort Ridge and the Ramapo Mountains, Sterling Forest, Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks in New York, to the Hudson River at Storm King Mountain. The northern region is also known as the Hudson Highlands and the southern as the Jersey Highlands.
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeast United States. Commonly referred to as the New Haven, the railroad served the states of Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
New York, Ontario and Western Railway The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, more commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad with origins in 1868, lasting until March 29, 1957 when it was ordered liquidated by a US bankruptcy judge.
New York, Providence and Boston Railroad The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, normally called the Stonington Line, was a major part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New London, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island. It is now part of Amtrak's high-speed Northeast Corridor.
New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) was an airline that operated seaplane service from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and intermediate points on the east coast of South America during the 1920s. It was forced to merge into its competitor, Pan American World Airways, in 1930.
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYS&W), also known as the Susie-Q, or simply The Susquehanna, is an American freight railway operating over 500 miles (800 km) of track in the northeastern U.S.
New Yorker Hotel The 43-storey New Yorker Hotel was built in 1929 and opened its doors on January 2, 1930. Much like its contemporaries, the Empire State Building (opened in 1931) and the Chrysler Building (opened in 1930), the New Yorker is designed in the Art Deco style that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
New Yorkistan "New Yorkistan" is the title of the cover art for the 2001-12-10 edition of The New Yorker magazine. It was created by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz and is according to the American Society of Magazine Editors #14 on the list of the top 40 magazine covers of the past 40 years..
New Yorkshire Writing New Yorkshire Writing was a UK based literary quarterly that briefly enjoyed one of the largest circulations of what is commonly called a "little magazine". This was entirely thanks to it being distributed as a free insertion in 13,000 copies of the "What’s On" arts listing magazine that was published by the Yorkshire Arts Association (YAA).
New Youth Forum New Youth Forum () is a political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The youth group was established in October 2001, and is currently led by convenor Regina Yeung Sum-yu.
New Youth of Macau The New Youth of Macau (Nova Juventude de Macau) () is a political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau, a former Portuguese possession. Macau is a state in which political parties don't play a role.
New Zealand and Australian Division The New Zealand and Australian Division was formed at the start of the Battle of Gallipoli as a composite division under the command of New Zealand general Alexander Godley. At the start of World War I New Zealand had mustered insufficient infantry battalions to form their own division while Australia did not have enough to form a second division so the brigades were combined.
New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925) The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a world's fair held in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1925-1926 which celebrated that country and the South Seas. it was held on newly reclaimed land at Logan Park, Dunedin.
New Zealand animals The animals of New Zealand have a particularly interesting history because, before the arrival of humans, probably less than 1,300 years ago, the country was completely free of mammals, except those that could swim there (seals, sea lions, and, off-shore, whales) or fly there (bats). This meant that all the ecological niches occupied by mammals elsewhere were occupied by either insects or birds, leading to an unusually large number of flightless birds, including the Kiwi, the Moa, and the Kakapo.
New Zealand A cricket team The New Zealand A cricket team is a cricket team representing New Zealand, and is the "second tier" of international New Zealand cricket below the full New Zealand cricket team. The team played its first game, against an England XI, in 1996/97.
New Zealand Air Training Corps The Air Training Corps or ATC is one of the three corps in the New Zealand Cadet Forces, the other two being the New Zealand Cadet Corps and Sea Cadet Corps. It is funded in partnership between the RNZAF and communities, and its members are civilians.
New Zealand Army New Zealand Army (Maori: Ngāti Tumatauenga) is the land armed force of the New Zealand military and comprises around 4,500 regular personnel and 2,500 non-regulars and civilians. The main part of the army is divided into 2 Land Force Groups, plus force troops.
New Zealand banded wrasse The New Zealand banded wrasse or yellow-saddled wrasse, Notolabrus fucicola, is a wrasse of the genus Notolabrus, found in the Eastern Indian Ocean, off eastern Australia and all around New Zealand on rocky weedy reef areas. Its length is between 30 and 60 cm and large specimens, which might be over 25 years old, weigh almost 5 kg.
New Zealand beer European, and primarily British immigration to New Zealand in the 19th Century has resulted in a brewing tradition that is as established as European settlement itself. The first beer brewed in New Zealand was made by the order of English explorer Captain Cook in the 18th Century, who believed the nutritional values of beer would help fight scurvy, a disease common to sailors of the time.
New Zealand bigeye New Zealand bigeye, Pempheris adspersa, is a sweeper of the genus Pempheris, found around New Zealand to depths of about 100 metres, in reef areas of broken rock containing suitable caves and overhangs. Its length is between 5 and 15 cm.

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