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New York (
/njuːˈjɔrk/) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. New York City and Long Island are located on the south eastern most part of lower New York State.
New York is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; it shares a water border with Rhode Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. New York is the United States' third most populous state.
The Algonquian, Iroquois, and Lenape Native American groups inhabited New York when Dutch and French nationals moved into the region in the early 17th century. First claimed by Henry Hudson in 1609, the region came to have Dutch forts in Fort Orange by 1614, near the site of the present-day state capital, Albany. The state was colonized by the Dutch in 1624, at both Albany and Manhattan; it later fell to British annexation in 1664. About one third of all of the battles of the Revolutionary War took place in New York. It became an independent state on July 9, 1776 and enacted its constitution in 1777. The state ratified the United States Constitution on July 26, 1788 to become the 11th state. According to the United States Department of Commerce, New York is the state of choice for foreign visitors, leading Florida and California in tourism.
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Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall, located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, on the north side of Kaaterskill Clove, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County's Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' taller waterfalls.
The falls are one of America's oldest tourist attractions, and appear in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century. Long before Alexis de Tocqueville's famous essay on America, Kaaterskill Falls was lauded as a place where a traveler could see a wilder image, a sort of primeval Eden. Beginning with Thomas Cole's first visit in 1825, they became an iconic subject for painters of the Hudson River School, setting the wilderness ideal for American landscape painting. The Falls also inspired "Catterskill Falls", a poem by William Cullen Bryant. The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinoian Stage, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain.
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The World Trade Center in New York City, United States, (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, mostly designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki and engineer Leslie Robertson and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was initiated in 1960 by a Lower Manhattan Association created and chaired by David Rockefeller, who had the original idea of building the center, with strong backing from the then-New York governor, his brother Nelson Rockefeller.
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- Monroe Leland Hayward (December 22, 1840 in Willsboro, New York – December 5, 1899) was a Senator from Nebraska.
- Ronnie Cuber (born December 25, 1941 in New York City) is primarily a jazz baritone saxophonist; he has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions.
- William Francis Deegan (December 28, 1882 – April 3, 1932) was an architect, Major in the Army Corps of Engineers, and Democratic political leader in New York City.
- Joel Collier (born December 25, 1963 in Buffalo, New York) is a former American football defensive backs coach in the National Football League.
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Morris "Moe" Berg (March 2, 1902, New York, New York – May 29, 1972, Belleville, New Jersey) was an American professional baseball player who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Although he spent 15 seasons in Major League Baseball, Berg was never more than an average player, and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in baseball" than for anything he accomplished in the game. The Bergs were never religiously observant, although being Jewish did contribute to Moe's sense of being an outsider in mid-twentieth century America. Casey Stengel once described Berg as "the strangest man ever to play baseball." A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, Berg spoke several languages and regularly read 10 newspapers a day. His reputation was fueled by his successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information, Please!. Berg answered questions about the derivation of words and names from Greek and Latin, historical events in Europe and the Far East, and ongoing international conferences.
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- November 24: NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Obama comments raise speculation of presidential bid
- November 21: California campus pepper spray police suspended
- October 23: Crown Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia dies
- September 3: Study concludes 9/11 firefighters are 19% more likely to develop cancer
- August 28: Tropical Storm Irene passes over New York
- August 24: Strauss-Kahn case dismissed
- August 23: Magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia felt up and down U.S. east coast, Pentagon evacuated
- August 23: New York executive files $60 million libel lawsuit over insurance scandal
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- ...that after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the 69th Regiment Armory served as a center for counselling for victims of the attack and families?
- ...that local boxing events were held to raise funding for a trip for The Keltic Dreams, an Irish dancing group consisting of 7-11 year olds?
- ...that the New York State Council on the Arts was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell?
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Manhattan is an island borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195 and land area of 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²), thus making it is the most densely populated county in the United States at 66,940 residents per square mile (25,846/km²).
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