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The NYC Pride March is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.The largest pride parade and the largest pride event in the world, the NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June, [4] [5] and carries spiritual and historical significance for the worldwide LGBTQIA+ community and its advocates.
In 2019, WorldPride was hosted in New York City by Heritage of Pride as Stonewall 50 — WorldPride NYC 2019; it marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots on June 28, 1969 in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood, which are widely considered to be the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement [43] [44] [45 ...
The New York City Human Rights Commission required the parade to include IGLO in the following year's parade, insisting the parade was public and secular, despite the protests of the AOH to the contrary. [16] In 1993, New York City issued a parade permit to a competing group, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee, with a more liberal ...
John Liu, state senator from the 16th district (2019–present), former New York City Comptroller (2010–2013), and candidate for mayor in 2013 [15] Donovan Richards, Queens Borough President (2020–present) [21] Carlina Rivera, city councilor from the 2nd district (2018–present) and candidate for New York's 10th congressional district in ...
In New York City, a planned congestion pricing scheme would charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. This disincentivizing fee, intended to cut down on traffic congestion and pollution, was first proposed in 2007 and included in the 2019 New York state government budget by the New York State ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Subway. Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the Staten Island Railway and all ...
270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Building, is a supertall skyscraper under construction on the East Side of the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the firm of Foster + Partners, the skyscraper is expected to rise 1,388 feet (423 m) when completed in 2025. The tower replaces the 52-story Union ...
Manhattanhenge. Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [1] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.