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Il Queens è il più grande per superficie e il secondo per popolazione dei cinque distretti (in inglese borough) della città di New York. I suoi confini sono gli stessi dell'omonima contea di Queens dello Stato di New York negli Stati Uniti d'America, al cui territorio corrisponde. Situata nella porzione ovest di Long Island, nel Queens si ...
Track 61 (New York City) Track 61 is a storage track abutting a private railroad platform on the Metro-North Railroad in Manhattan, New York City. It is located beneath the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel, within an underground storage yard northeast of Grand Central Terminal. [1] [2] The platform is part of the Grand Central Terminal complex.
In 1840, the New York Legislature officially incorporated the village under the name Astoria. But by the 1860s, the bucolic mansions began giving way to industry. As New York City and Brooklyn adopted more stringent regulations, Queens—which was still made up of independent towns and villages with fewer rules and cheaper land—became an attractive site for industry.
Un provinciale a New York (The Out-of-Towners), è un film del 1970, diretto da Arthur Hiller, sceneggiato da Neil Simon e interpretato da Jack Lemmon e Sandy Dennis. Trama. George Kellerman è un onesto impiegato in un distaccamento provinciale di una grossa società che viene promosso alla sede di New York.
The city is named for John Jacob Astor, an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early 19th century. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1856.
Their New York City namesakes are the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an Astor Row, Astor Court, Astor Place, and Astor Avenue in the Bronx, where the Astors stabled horses. The neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, was renamed to incite John Jacob Astor to invest there. Beyond New York City, the Astor family name is imprinted in a great deal of ...
NRHP reference No. 08000471 [1] Added to NRHP. May 29, 2008. Trinity Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church at 31-18 37th Street in Astoria, Queens, New York. It was designed by John William Cresswell Corbusier and overseen by architect George W. Conable (1866–1933). It was built in 1926 and is a one-story Collegiate Gothic style building.
