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S. Staten Island Pavilion. Steinberg Wellness Center. Categories: Sports venues in New York City. Indoor arenas in New York (state) Event venues in New York City. Indoor arenas in the United States by populated place.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
Born. ( 1972-04-02) April 2, 1972 (age 52) New York City, U.S. [2] Keechant L. Sewell (born April 2, 1972) is an American former police officer and administrator who served as the 45th New York City Police Commissioner, the first woman and third black person to serve in the position. [3] On June 12, 2023, Sewell announced that she was stepping ...
The Goelets are descended from a family of Huguenots from La Rochelle in France, who escaped to Amsterdam. Francois Goelet, a widower with a ten-year-old son, Jacobus, arrived in New York in 1676. Returning to Amsterdam on business, he left the boy in the care of Frederick Philipse, but was apparently lost at sea. His son, John G. Goelet ...
The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth . In 1888, Booth purchased an 1847 mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse. The building's interior and part of ...
Red Bull Arena is New York metropolitan area's first professional soccer-specific stadium in the modern era of American soccer. The sport of soccer has a long history in New York City, beginning in the 1910s with the first iteration of the American Soccer League. In the 1970s, with the rise of the first iteration of the North American Soccer ...
New York City, New York, U.S. Political party. Democratic. Education. Spelman College ( BA) Website. Official website. Adrienne Eadie Adams (born December 9, 1960) is an American politician serving as Speaker of the New York City Council. A Democrat, Adams represents the 28th district, and is the first woman elected to the district.
The first, confirmed, case of COVID-19 was in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [1] [2] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.