Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 United States census, a 19.22% increase since the 2010 United States census. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Denver is located in the Southwestern United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet or 1609.344 meters) above sea level. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.
Denver is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 2,963,821 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the 19th most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-county Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had a population of 3,623,560 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the 17th most populous U.S. primary statistical area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching across two states with a population of 5,055,344 at the 2020 United States Census. Its metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan area within an 560-mile (900 km) radius and the second most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, it was named the best place to live in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. (Wikipedia)
Welcome arch at Union Depot, Denver, Colorado. 1908U.S. Mint, Denver, Colorado 1906The Felken Cycle Co., Denver, Colorado. 191016th Street, Denver, Colorado 1906Laying trolley tracks on 15th Street, Denver, 1905.16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 1909Arapahoe Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. 1900Welcome arch at Union Depot, Denver, Colorado. 1910Inter-Ocean Hotel, Denver, 1900Intersection of Stout and 16th streets in downtown Denver, 1900Downtown Denver, 1906Mt. Rosalie & Denver from the Brown, 1906View of Arapahoe Street in downtown Denver, Colorado, 1900Denver Post Office and Arapahoe St., 1906Larimer Street from 18th West, Denver, Colorado, 190016th St. down from Curtis St., Denver, 1906View of Curtis Street from 16th Street in Denver, 1906Denver Post Office, 1900Livestock Exchange, Denver, 1900Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1909The Chamberlin Observatory, Denver, 1900Bird’s eye view of Denver, Colorado from Daniels & Fisher Tower, 16th & Arapahoe, 1912View of Immaculate Conception Cathedral (Colfax Avenue and Logan Street) under construction, Denver, Colorado, 1912Ice skating on City Park Lake, Denver, Colorado, 1901Exterior view of Saint Luke’s Hospital, 19th and Pearl, Denver, Colorado, 1910Exterior view of Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 17, 14th and California.Denver, Colorado, 1917View of 15th and Lawrence streets, Denver, Colorado, 1915Exterior view of International Trust Company building (17th and California) Denver, Colorado, 1912Exterior view Empire Building, 16th and Glenarm, Denver, Colorado, 1913Exterior view of Denver Athletic Club, 1910View southeast at Tremont Street and Seventeenth Street to Brown Palace Hotel. 1916.View towards Trinity Methodist Church, Hotel Metropole and edge of Brown Palace on Broadway from 17th Avenue, Denver, Colorado. 1911View south on Sherman Avenue towards Colorado State Capitol building during spring snowstorm in April, Denver, Colorado. 1913.Exterior view of Denver (Arapahoe) County Court House, 1900Exterior night view of illuminated Gas & Electric Building, 15th and Champa, Denver, Colorado, 1910Close-up view of main entrance to Elitch’s Gardens at West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, Denver, Colorado, 1910View of children in rowboats on the lake in City Park, Denver, Colorado, 1918City Park Lake and rows of wrought iron benches in City Park, Denver, Colorado.1910Men pose in City Park, in Denver, Colorado, by United States flags and bentwood chairs during a Fourth of July festival. Between 1904 and 1915.A man is baptized by two men in the South Platte River in Denver, Colorado. A woman stands nearby and watches, 1910.Outdoor portrait of Men and women in a canoe at City Park Lake in Denver, Colorado, 1910A group of men pose near possibly a blacksmith’s shop in Denver, Colorado, 1904A group of men stand and sit on the sidewalk near a grocery store in Denver, Colorado, 1906Men and women pose near two bicycles in City Park, Denver, Colorado. 1906View of streetcar number 126, in Denver, Colorado, 1910Streetcar on Denver’s 16th St. circa 1909
Beatles fans, 1964Scholars in a Persian Girl’s School, Barfarouche, Iran, May 7, 1931Members of the Nazi Youth participate in burning books, Buecherverbrennung, in Salzburg, Austria, on April 30, 1938.Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista visits Washington DC in November 1938.Chief Bald Eagle Aboard the USS Recruit, 1915Car driven by outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker when they were ambushed and killed by police, 1934Two US Marines of 1st Brigade, Co. B, 5th Regiment grimly advance along a ditch past an enemy corpse during the fighting in the Naktong River area.Afghan Men Relaxing At A Bazaar, 1930sBeachwear, 1928Sophia Delza, 1931Young girl preparing for sentry duty, Haifa, Israel, 1951.Aerial view of Times Square, 1967Viet Cong National Liberation Front, 1960sBroadway, New York City, 1944Thomas Edison’s electric car, 1912Peggy Moffitt, Lydia Fields & Leon Bing wearing sun visors, 1965Worlds largest Ball Player, 1908Workers atop the Woolworth Building, New York, 1926Women’s Suffrage Parade New York City, May 6, 1912Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl, Toronto, 1942Two women munitions workers at the National Shell Filling Factory in Chillwell, Nottinghamshire during the First World War, 1917Two man stand in front of the Coca Cola delivery truck , 1910Transporting a circus elephant, early 1930sThe Tasman bridge disaster, Hobart, Tasmania, January 5th, 1975The Statue of Liberty in Paris, 1886.The only existing photo of a Quagga, a plains zebra that is now extinct, London, 1870Apollo 16 astronaut John Young does some raking on the moon, April 23, 1972.The first aerial refueling, 1923.Streetwalkers in Berlin, 1920s.Staff pictured with the last tram operated by Manchester Corporation, 1949Sports parade, Moscow, 1938Snowstorm mask, Montreal, Canada, 1939RCMP officer posing beside his car in Canada, 1939Players from opposing hockey teams search for a contact lens lost by Jack Evans, 1962.09 Jan 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA — The Tele-Bar is a combination of a 21 inch television, radio, phonograph, and complete bar. The lid turns into a serving tray for cocktails. 1947 MaseratiNew York, Blizzard of 1888California redwood loggers, early 20th century.Women in Egypt, 1905.Arsenal found in the trunk of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s Car, 1934.Benny Hill and friends, 1970sAble to travel 80 miles on a gallon of petrol, the 2.5 horse power ‘Scoota Car’ is demonstrated in London, UK, 1936Registering two surrendering German soldiers, 1945Telephone Operator, Josie Jepson ,Wisconsin, 1915Ronald and Nancy Reagan
It was the final official public appearance from Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, at the 11th Brit Awards, held on February 18, 1990 at Earls Court, London. Privately, the other members of Queen were aware that their enigmatic bandmate and friend was gravely ill, but this was not public knowledge at the time.
Rumors about Mercury’s health had swirled for years, with the U.K tabloid The Sun proving a particularly enthusiastic source of speculation; as far back as the fall of 1986, the paper insisted that the singer had been tested for HIV/AIDS. Mercury denied the reports, but — as it had with Elton John during roughly the same time period — The Sun knew sensationalism sold regardless of proof, and continued to publish Mercury gossip while hiring photographers to hound him.
Fans were concerned about Freddie due to their lack of tour to support their 1989 album The Miracle, though guitarist Brian May later said that even they didn’t know about how ill Freddie was for years.
“We didn’t know actually what was wrong for a very long time,” said May. “We never talked about it and it was a sort of unwritten law that we didn’t, because Freddie didn’t want to. He just told us that he wasn’t up to doing tours, and that’s as far as it went. Gradually, I suppose in the last year and a bit, it became obvious what the problem was, or at least fairly obvious. We didn’t know for sure.”
In February 1990, Queen appeared at the Brit Awards to accept the ‘Outstanding Contribution to British Music’ prize. Freddie appeared rather gaunt and strangely quiet.
Brian spoke on Queen’s behalf that night, thanks the Brits for the introduction from Chrysalis co-founder Terry Ellis and a testimonial video featuring David Bowie, Phil Collins and others. It would prove to be Freddie’s final public appearance, as he leaned in briefly into the microphone to say: “Thank you… goodnight.”
Although the group had already started work on 1991’s Innuendo LP, the members had adjusted their work schedule to accommodate Mercury’s failing health, and would complete the record by following a pattern of spending three weeks in the studio followed by two weeks off. As they walked out to the podium together, anyone could see that Mercury seemed gaunt — and atypically reserved.
Freddie kept his privacy for the rest of his life, until November 22, 1991, when he confirmed his diagnosis with an official statement. Just over a day later, he passed away.
During the 1950s and ’60s typewriting was taught mostly in elementary schools, and there was a widely held conviction that typewriting skills might fast-forward a student’s acquisition of the English language — especially spelling. Through typing, students tend to become more aware of the forms that letter patterns take, especially the beginning and ending of words, as Bartholome W. Lloyd reported in his research, “Keyboarding/Typewriting in Elementary School.”
Strategies for typing instruction started at the same time the typewriter came on the scene. It was towards the end of the 19th century that the typewriter gained its full status as a reliable tool for communication and writing.
Roughly around 1880, typing courses were provided by typewriter manufacturers like Remington in an effort to establish the typewriter’s status as an essential technological aid in business. Fast-forward 15 years into the 20th century, and you’ll find that public schools were starting to introduce typing in America’s high schools.
Typing is a skill that boosts employment opportunities. However, at one point it was also considered a medium through which reading and writing could be taught. A study by Wood and Freeman (1932) explored how typewriters affect students’ literacy.
They discovered that students using a typewriter to write had a better reading capacity and improved spelling skills. What is more, these students regarded writing on a typewriter to be more enjoyable than their counterparts who weren’t writing and reading on a typewriter. At this time, typewriters were a technology that was experimentally introduced as educators wanted to see how it could positively affect learning.
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London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and retains boundaries close to its medieval ones. Since the 19th century, “London” has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries held the national government and parliament.
London, as one of the world’s global cities, exerts strong influence on its arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, health care, media, tourism, and communications. Its GDP (€801.66 billion in 2017) makes it the biggest urban economy in Europe and one of the major financial centres in the world. In 2019 it had the second highest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals in Europe after Paris and the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in Europe after Moscow. With Europe’s largest concentration of higher education institutions, it includes Imperial College London in natural and applied sciences, the London School of Economics in social sciences, and the comprehensive University College London. The city is home to the most 5-star hotels of any city in the world. In 2012, London became the first city to host three Summer Olympic Games.
London’s diverse cultures mean over 300 languages are spoken. The mid-2018 population of Greater London of about 9 million, made it Europe’s third-most populous city. It accounts for 13.4 per cent of the UK population. Greater London Built-up Area is the fourth-most populous in Europe, after Istanbul, Moscow and Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The London metropolitan area is the third-most populous in Europe after Istanbul’s and Moscow’s, with 14,040,163 inhabitants in 2016.
London has four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the Palace of Westminster, along with Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret’s Church; and the historic settlement in Greenwich, where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich defines the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. Other landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. It has numerous museums, galleries, libraries and sporting venues, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library and West End theatres. The London Underground is the oldest rapid transit system in the world. (Wikipedia)
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress, model and singer. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don’t Bother to Knock. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photographs prior to becoming a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films.
By 1953, Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars; she had leading roles in the film noir Niagara, which overtly relied on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a “dumb blonde”. The same year, her nude images were used as the centerfold and on the cover of the first issue of Playboy. She played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, but she was disappointed when she was typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project but returned to star in The Seven Year Itch (1955), one of the biggest box office successes of her career.
When the studio was still reluctant to change Monroe’s contract, she founded her own film production company in 1954. She dedicated 1955 to building the company and began studying method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Later that year, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. Her subsequent roles included a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and her first independent production in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).
Monroe’s troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with addiction and mood disorders. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and to playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized, and both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a probable suicide. (Wikipedia)
The future American actress Marilyn Monroe smiling as a 10-months old baby, April 1927A young Norma Jeane Mortenson with her mother, Gladys Baker, 1929Norma Jeane Mortenson at five years old, 1931An adolescent Norma Jeane Mortenson staying at her Aunt Ana’s place. Aunt Ana’s was one of the many homes she would live in through her difficult childhood as an orphan, 1938Norma Jeane Mortenson at 14 years old. After her Aunt Ana got sick, Norma Jeane had to move in with the Goddard family. She had lived there before, but left their home when she was 11 when her legal guardian, Erwin Goddard, molested her (1940)A teenaged Norma Jeane Mortenson (center) at an outdoor fete with a group of friends, 1941A teenaged Norma Jeane Mortenson (center) and her friends in a rowboat, 1941Norma Jeane Mortenson poses for a photo with a friend and her baby, 1941Norma Jeane Mortenson at the zoo, with a hornbill on her arm, 1941Young Norma Jeane Mortenson plays with penguins at the zoo, 1941Norma Jeane Mortenson as a 15-year-old beauty queen. This would be her last year as a single woman, 1941At the age of 16, Norma Jeane Mortenson married James Dougherty (June 19, 1942)Norma Jeane Dougherty, Bridal portrait, Age 16, 1942Newlywed Norma Jeane Dougherty goes out for Chinese food with her family, 1942Norma Jeane Mortenson with her husband, James Dougherty. When the pair met, he was her neighbor and five years her senior. The two had little in common. She would later say that they hardly spoke because “we had nothing to say.” 1943James Dougherty, now a Merchant Marine, poses with his wife outside of boot camp. After he joined the Merchant Marines, the couple became increasingly distant. In 1944, he would be sent off to the Pacific. From then on, they would rarely see one another. 1943Norma Jeane Dougherty alone, with her husband’s boot camp in the distance 1943Norma Jeane Dougherty working at the Radioplane Munitions Factory. While working at the factory, Norma Jeane was spotted by an Army propaganda officer.He took this photo of her working at her post. It was the first modelling job of her life, 1945Shortly after her photoshoot in the factory, she quit her job and tried modelling full time, 1945One of her first modeling shots, 1945Early Portrait of Norma Jeane, 1945Norma Jeane posing in the gardens of the Ambassador Hotel holding the Blue Book Models life ring, 1945An early Blue Book Modeling Agency picture of Marilyn Monroe in a white bikini, 1945Norma Jean at the beginning of her modeling career, 1945Skiing down a sand dune at a photoshoot, 1945Posing during a Blue Book modeling shoot, 1945Norma Jeane Dougherty gets intimately close to another model to film an ad for hair products. James Dougherty strongly disapproved of his wife’s new career. Less than a year after this photo was taken, their marriage would fall apart and the pair would get divorced (1945)Norma Jeane becomes a “Sweater Girl.” 1945The Blue Book Modelling Years, 1945Norma Jeane sitting with her legs out, wearing bikini, 1945Douglas Airview magazine employed models to advertise its American Airlines flights. Here, Norma Jeane shows great interest in the stewardess handing milk, 1945Norma Jeane at the pool, 1945Norma Jeane poses in a swimsuit, 1945A young Marilyn Monroe is a picture of joy in a white one-piece bathing suit, 1945Norma Jeane’s first national magazine cover, in 1946 for The Family Circle, was incredibly sweet, wholesome and innocentPosing for a postcard by the sea, 1946The Romantic negative of Norma Jeane, 1946Norma Jeane with yellow skirt, 1946Yellow Skirt, Gene Hansen’s Sycamore, March 1946Norma Jeane in a hunting with binoculars, 1946Posing with a puppy on a bicycle, 1946In red sweater, Gene Hansen’s Sycamore, 1946Norma Jeane in a red bathing suit, 1946Floating in a pool, 1946Norma Joane wearing a white bathing suit by a swimming pool, 1946Sitting on a towel, hugging her knees, 1946Norma Jeane posing in Malibu. Her lover and photographer behind the photo said “She was twenty and had never experienced the intoxication of success, yet already there was a shadow over her radiance, in her laughter” (1946)
RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world’s largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. She captured the eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season. She held both speed records for 20 years.
The ship’s name was taken from the ancient Roman province of Mauretania on the northwest African coast, not the modern Mauritania to the south.[2] Similar nomenclature was also employed by Mauretania’s sister ship Lusitania, which was named after the Roman province directly north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar in Portugal. Mauretania remained in service until September 1934, when Cunard-White Star retired her; scrapping commenced in Rosyth, in 1935. (Wikipedia)
At full speed on the measured mile, circa 1906Stern view showing disposition of propellers, circa 1906Bow view during launching, circa 1906Grand entrance. A. deck, 1906Boat deck promenade, circa 1906Bookcase in library, circa 1906Children’s room, circa 1906Corridor A. deck, circa 1906En suite rooms, A. deck, circa 1906.En suite rooms, A. deck, circa 1906.First class smoking room, circa 1906General view of upper and lower dining saloon. Showing dome, circa 1906Library, looking across the vessel, circa 1906Lounge or music room, looking aft, circa 1906Lounge or music room, looking forward, circa 1906Mauretania kitchen, circa 1906Mauretania observation hall, circa 1906Ordinary state room, D deck, circa 1906Parlour suite. B deck, circa 1906Promenade deck, circa 1906Purser’s Bureau, on the Promenade Deck, Mauretania, circa 1906Regal suite bedrooms, starboard side, looking aft, circa 1906Regal suite parlour and dining room, port side, circa 1906Regal Suite parlour, circa 1906Seat in grand entrance. A. deck, circa 1906Second class dining saloon, circa 1906Second class drawing room, circa 1906Second class drawing room, circa 1906Second class lounge, circa 1906Second class smoking room, circa 1906Second class special state room, circa 1906Smoking room, looking aft, circa 1906Smoking room, looking forward, circa 1906Smoking room, port side, looking forward, circa 1906Special state room. D. deck, circa 1906Third class general activity room, circa 1906Upper dining saloon, circa 1906Verandah café, circa 1906Elevator on Mauretania, circa 1906Mauretania engine control room, circa 1906Mauretania navigation bridge, circa 1906
New York, often called New York City to distinguish it from New York State, or NYC for short, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the State of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world’s most populous megacities. New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, significantly influencing commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports, and is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and has sometimes been called the capital of the world.
Situated on one of the world’s largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. As of 2018, the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly $1.8 trillion, ranking it first in the United States. If the New York metropolitan area were a sovereign state, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.
New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists in approximately 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653. The city came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. The city was regained by the Dutch in July 1673 and was renamed New Orange for one year and three months; the city has been continuously named New York since November 1674. New York City was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the U.S. and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity, entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. In 2019, New York was voted the greatest city in the world per a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, citing its cultural diversity.
Many districts and monuments in New York City are major landmarks, including three of the world’s ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019. Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world’s busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world’s entertainment industry. Many of the city’s landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world, as is the city’s fast pace, spawning the term New York minute. The Empire State Building has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures. Manhattan’s real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. Providing continuous 24/7 service and contributing to the nickname The City That Never Sleeps, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. The city has over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the City University of New York system, which is the largest urban public university system in the United States. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the world’s leading financial center and the most financially powerful city in the world, and is home to the world’s two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. (Wikipedia)
“Bandit’s Roost,” a notorious hangout for the criminal element at 59 Mulberry Street in Little Italy, 1888. At the time, the area was among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the entire city.Pike and Henry Streets in the Lower East Side, with the Manhattan Bridge looming in the background, 1936.Beggar with his hand out, 1900.Rivington Street in the Lower East Side, 1900.Children lick a massive block of ice to stay cool on July 6, 1912.An Italian immigrant carries a dry goods box down Bleecker Street, February 1912.A beggar, perhaps disfigured during World War I, sits on the street, early 1900s.Street children sleeping, 1890.An Italian immigrant’s shop on Mott Street, 1912.Refuse piles up at the entrance to the tenements at 53 to 59 MacDougal Street, February 1912.Things got even worse during the garbage strike of November 8-11, 1908. Pictured: Crowds and police gather in the street during the strike.The “White Wings” clean the streets, under police protection, during the garbage strike of November 8-11, 1908.Children play near a dead horse left to rot in the street, 1905.Children gather in Mullen’s Alley in the Cherry Hill area of lower Manhattan, 1888.A woman carries a bundle of clothing to be sewn at home near Astor Place, February 1912.A street peddler who’d slept in a basement at 11 Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side, 1899.Two women and a man gather in front of outhouses at an unspecified location, circa 1902-1914.Most turn-of-the-century New York City tenements didn’t have indoor plumbing.A food vendor sells his wares in the streets of the Lower East Side on February 24, 1917.Dead bodies lie in an alley off Monroe Street following a nearby fire, December 1913.Men wait on the bread line in the Bowery on February 7, 1910.Jewish immigrants carry packages of matzo, April 1908.The Municipal Lodging House for the homeless sits across the street from an abandoned lot on 25th Street, circa 1909-1920. The house opened in February 1909 to help treat a citywide homelessness problem that saw as many as 600 new applicants looking for shelter each day.Men stand at a corner on Chinatown’s Pell Street, 1900.Crowds at Pitt and Rivington Streets in the Lower East Side, 1915.Street festival in Little Italy, 1908.Clothes line the railings of the tenements at 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, March 1912.Street dweller, 1890.Children wearing signs in English and Yiddish protest child labor conditions on May 1, 1909.Boys in Hell’s Kitchen demonstrate how they rob people who have passed out.Children behind the tenements at 134 1/2 Thompson Street, February 1912.Two newspaper boys asleep in the press room of The Sun, 1892.Chinatown storefront, 1903.107th Street just east of 3rd Avenue, February 1912.Street merchants in Little Italy, 1900Children prepare to transport a load of kimonos on Thompson Street, February 1912.Hell’s Kitchen, just before 1890.Impoverished populations in the Lower East Side, late 1800s.Impoverished populations in the Lower East Side, late 1800s.The Bowery, February 1912.21-23 Pearl Street, circa 1890-1919.Stevedore working in the fish market of the Lower East Side, May-June 1943.A boy uses the curbside water pump at Trinity Place, just south of Cedar Street, 1902.Street peddler in the Lower East Side, 1890sHester Street, between Allen and Orchard Streets in the Lower East Side, 1938.A girl on the sidewalk in Little Italy, 1950s.Orchard Street in the Lower East Side, 1900s.Ten-year-old child waits to walk across Broadway at Leroy Street, February 1912.Rooftop pigeon coop at an unspecified location, circa 1934-1938.A young girl brings cloth “homework” back to her tenement to be sewn, circa 1912.Mulberry and Prince Streets, 1935.
New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 as determined by the 2020 United States Census, New Haven is now the third-largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport, and Stamford. New Haven is the principal municipality of Greater New Haven, which had a total population of 864,835 as of 2020.
New Haven was one of the first planned cities in America. A year after its founding by English Puritans in 1638, eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is commonly known as the “Nine Square Plan”. The central common block is the New Haven Green, a 16-acre (6 ha) square at the center of Downtown New Haven. The Green is now a National Historic Landmark, and the “Nine Square Plan” is recognized by the American Planning Association as a National Planning Landmark.
New Haven is the home of Yale University. As New Haven’s biggest taxpayer and employer, Yale serves as an integral part of the city’s economy. Health care (hospitals and biotechnology), professional services (legal, architectural, marketing, and engineering), financial services, and retail trade also contribute to the city’s economic activity.
The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873, when sole governance was transferred to the more centrally located city of Hartford. New Haven has since billed itself as the “Cultural Capital of Connecticut” for its supply of established theaters, museums, and music venues. New Haven had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave the city the nickname “The Elm City”. (Wikipedia)
