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The FDNY's motto is "New York's Bravest" for fire, and "New York's Best" for EMS. The FDNY serves more than 8.5 million residents within a 302-square-mile (780 km 2) area. [8] The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, [9] and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. [10]
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company building. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, a Bell licensee serving Long Island and Staten Island, [5] was broken up and its New York properties merged with the New York company as the City and Suburban Telephone Company in 1897. [6]
BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House (Welsh: Tŷ Darlledu Newydd BBC Cymru Wales), previously known as the BBC Cymru Wales headquarters building, is the headquarters of BBC Cymru Wales in Central Square, Cardiff. It operates many of its broadcasting services (radio and TV) from there using IP-based studios.
In the 1980s, Channel Master was the only second source for General Instrument's Videocipher II module, a building block for satellite television receivers, under a licensing agreement for which Avnet paid GI a million dollars. The Channel Master 4251, a high-performance parabolic UHF television antenna, stood about seven feet in diameter. [19]
The old company headquarters still exist as the Soo Line Building. The current headquarters is Canadian Pacific Plaza. Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company produced Ceresota flour in Minneapolis from 1891 to 1953. Its Elevator A, and A and F mills are still standing and two of these structures are in use as office buildings.
The first building to bring the world's tallest title to New York was the New York World Building, in 1890. Later, New York City was home to the world's tallest building for 75 continuous years, starting with the Park Row Building in 1899 and ending with One World Trade Center upon completion of the Sears Tower in 1974. The 1899 Park Row ...
1947 New York City smallpox outbreak: disease 2 [172] 1929 1929 Yankee Stadium stampede: mass unrest 2 [173] 1835 Great Fire of New York: fire 2 [174] 2020 2020 New York City Subway fire: rail 1 [175] 2019 2019 New York City helicopter crash: aircraft 1 [176] 2007 2007 New York City steam explosion: explosion 1 [163] 1995 Williamsburg Bridge ...
New York planned to give Amazon tax breaks of at least $1.525 billion, cash grants of $325 million, and other incentives. [8] In February 2019, Amazon cancelled the New York location after strong opposition from local grassroots organizers, residents and politicians. [9] [10] The project has drawn criticism as an example of corporate welfare.