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New York City
- Sobriquet: The Big Apple
- Vicinity: Far SE corner of New York state
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New York City| Place | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn | Borough | |
| Manhattan | Borough | |
| Queens | Borough | |
| Staten Island | Borough | |
| The Bronx | Borough |
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 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. |
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| Particulars for New York City: | |
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| Locale Type | Metropolis |
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Creative Works »
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood and Guts in High School | Book | Kathy Acker | ||
| Croatoan (Short Story) | Short Story |
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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 |
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Jacques Futrelle | It's rather purposeless hanging around New York, and traveling is something to, you know. |
| The Web and the Rock | Book |
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Thomas Wolfe | Setting |