New York City

Cultural  

1. City in New York state and largest city in the United States. (See Bowery, Broadway (see also Broadway), Bronx, Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, Park Avenue, September 11 attacks, Times Square, and Wall Street.)

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One of the key financial, communications, and arts centers of the world.

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He was previously a reporter and special projects editor at the Real Deal, where he focused on the intersection of New York City real estate and politics.

From The Wall Street Journal

That signaling system was put together with the help of Stanford economist Alvin Roth, who also developed systems for matching kidney donors with patients and New York City schoolchildren with schools.

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Behind the graceful figure that adorns one of New York City’s cherished spaces was an artist devoted to her work.

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Crystals within the Manhattan schist of New York City link urban modernity to deep antiquity.

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Laura Turner Igoe, a curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania and one of the volume’s contributors, writes that the Gospel-inspired angel “commemorates the bringing of clean water to New York City.”

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