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  2. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up and replaced by a system of competitors.

  3. Trump Tower - Wikipedia

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    Trump Tower is a 58-story, 664-foot-tall (202 m) mixed-use condominium skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets. The building contains the headquarters for the Trump Organization, as well as the penthouse residence of its developer, the businessman and former ...

  4. New York City Department of Finance - Wikipedia

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    Website. nyc.gov/finance. The New York City Department of Finance ( DOF) is the revenue service, taxation agency and recorder of deeds of the government of New York City. [2] Its Parking Violations Bureau is an administrative court that adjudicates parking violations, while its Sheriff's Office is the city's primary civil law enforcement agency.

  5. Air conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Residential central air systems are usually from 1 to 5 tons (3.5 to 18 kW) in capacity. [ citation needed ] The efficiency of air conditioners is often rated by the seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER), which is defined by the Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute in its 2008 standard AHRI 210/240, Performance Rating of ...

  6. Payment in lieu of taxes - Wikipedia

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    A payment in lieu of taxes (usually abbreviated as PILOT, or sometimes as PILT [1]) is a payment made to compensate a government for some or all of the property tax revenue lost due to tax exempt ownership or use of real property .

  7. New York City water supply system - Wikipedia

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    New York City Water Board. The New York City Water Board was established in 1905. It sets water and sewer rates for New York City sufficient to pay the costs of operating and financing the system, and collects user payments from customers for services provided by the water and wastewater utility systems of the City of New York.

  8. Property tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In New York City alone, an Independent Budget Office study found that religious institutions would have been taxed $627M yearly without such exemptions; all exempt groups avoided paying a combined $13 billion in the fiscal year of 2012 (1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012). Payment. Time and manner of payment of property taxes varies widely.

  9. ‘We just can’t take this anymore’: Montana man, 68, begs for ...

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    According to a Montana Free Press (MTFP) analysis of revenue department data for the 956,000 properties on the state’s property tax rolls in both 2022 and 2023, the median Montana residential ...