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CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. [2] The letters CBGB were for Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Kristal's original vision for the club. But CBGB soon emerged as a famed and iconic venue for punk rock ...
Tenderloin, Manhattan. The Tenderloin was an entertainment and red-light district in the heart of the New York City borough of Manhattan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] The area originally ran from 24th Street to 42nd Street and from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. [1]
The New York Hippodrome closed on August 16, 1939, and was demolished. World War II delayed re-development, and the Hippodrome site remained vacant for over a decade. Legacy. The office building and parking garage built on the site in 1951–52, owned by Edison Properties, uses the name "The Hippodrome Center."
Area code. 212, 332, 646, and 917. Hell's Kitchen, formerly also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.
June 4, 1973. Designated NYCL. May 25, 1967. The Church of the Transfiguration, also known as the Little Church Around the Corner, is an Episcopal parish church located at 1 East 29th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1848 by George Hendric Houghton ...
Brentano's was founded as an independent bookstore in New York City in 1853 by August Brentano, who established a newsstand in front of the New York Hotel. [1] The first branch store for the company was opened in Washington, D.C., in 1883. [2] A year later, a second branch store was opened in Chicago in 1884.
The 1974-1985 Logo. Stern's (originally Stern Brothers) was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The chain was in business for more than 130 years. In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department Stores opted to retire the Stern's brand. Most of the stores were immediately ...
East New York: 19 8 and 14 1,586 June 30, 1958: Long Island Baptist Houses: East New York: 4 6 233 June 30, 1981: Louis Heaton Pink Houses: East New York: 22 8 1,500 September 30, 1959: Marcus Garvey Houses Brownsville: 3 6 and 14 321 February 28, 1975: Marcy Houses: Bedford-Stuyvesant: 27 6 1,705 January 19, 1949: Marcy-Greene Avs. Houses ...