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New York City

  • Sobriquet: The Big Apple

  • Vicinity: Far SE corner of New York state
  • Type: Metropolis


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New York City
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PlaceTypeAsNotedIn
Brooklyn Borough
Manhattan Borough
Queens Borough
Staten Island Borough
The Bronx Borough

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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1901/00/00 Andrew Carnegie Benefactor Andrew Carnegie donates $5.2 million ($159,806,400 in 2019) to build 65 branch libraries in New York City, with the requirement that the City provide the land and maintain the buildings.
2005/00/00 Michael Bloomberg Mayor Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes a deal with the UF Teachers union that teachers without a classroom can sit in an empty office and continue to be paid their salary. It cost the city more than $100 million a year to pay the teachers not to work.

Eat and Drink »

FoodTypeAsNotedInDescription
FoodTypeAsNotedInDescription
Cheesecake Cake
Giant Pizza Slice Look for thin crust pizza sold by the slice, fold it lengthwise and eat it on the go.
Mallomars Not sold in summer
Rachel Hot Sandwich
Reuben Sandwich Hot Sandwich



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Particulars for New York City:
Locale Type Metropolis



Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
Blood and Guts in High School Book Kathy Acker
Croatoan (Short Story) Short Story
Harlan Ellison
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (book) History Book Kim Phillips-Fein
Requim for a Dream Book Hubert Selby
Sister Carrie Book Theodore Dreiser
Symbols and Signs (short story) Short Story Vladimir Nabokov Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now, in New York, wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years' standing.
The New York Trilogy Book Paul Auster Setting
The Simple Case of Susan (book) Novel
Jacques Futrelle It's rather purposeless hanging around New York, and traveling is something to, you know.
The Web and the Rock Book
Thomas Wolfe Setting

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