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  2. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    The governor of New York, George Pataki, declared a state of emergency. Verizon's emergency generators failed several times, leaving the emergency services number 9-1-1 out of service for several periods of about a quarter-hour each. New York City's 3-1-1 information hotline received over 175,000 calls from concerned residents during the weekend.

  3. vCard - Wikipedia

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    jCard, "The JSON Format for vCard" is a standard proposal of 2014 in RFC 7095.RFC 7095 describes a lossless method of representing vCard instances in JSON, using arrays of sequence-dependent tag–value pairs. jCard has been incorporated into several other protocols, including RDAP, the Protocol to Access White Space Databases (PAWS, described in RFC 7545), and SIP, which (via RFC 8688) uses ...

  4. New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit

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    Before being assigned to the medical squad, officers must pass a series of interviews along with a physical agility test demonstrating their ability to carry patients and equipment. The unit maintains at least 2 ambulances fully stocked to the New York State Department of Health standard. Their base is located in Queens.

  5. List of municipalities in New York - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of municipalities in New York other than towns, which includes all 531 villages and 62 cities of New York. Of the total 593 municipalities, 588 are non-town municipalities, while five are coterminous town-villages , villages that are coterminous with their town.

  6. Wordle - Wikipedia

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    Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position.

  7. Grid plan - Wikipedia

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    In the British Isles, the planned new town system involving a grid street layout was part of the system of burgage. An example of a medieval planned city in The Netherlands is Elburg. Bury St Edmunds is an example of a town planned on a grid system in the late 11th century. [10]

  8. New York City English - Wikipedia

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    New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, [1] is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding metropolitan area. It is described by sociolinguist William Labov as the most recognizable regional dialect in North America . [ 2 ]

  9. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    Flag used by the Port Authority, a bicolor of Buff and Blue with the coat of arms of New Jersey and New York surmounted on gold fringe. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United ...