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On November 13, 2018, Amazon announced that it would divide the planned HQ2 between New York City and Northern Virginia. [15] On February 14, 2019, Amazon canceled its plan for the HQ2 location in New York City. Amazon is also in the process of building a retail hub of operations center in Nashville, Tennessee.
This partial list of city nicknames in Massachusetts compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities and towns in Massachusetts are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The Port of Boston (AMS Seaport Code: 0401, [2] UN/LOCODE: US BOS) is a major seaport located in Boston Harbor and adjacent to the City of Boston. [3] It is the largest port in Massachusetts and one of the principal ports on the East Coast of the United States .
Eastern pioneered hourly air shuttle services between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Boston in 1961 as the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle. It took over Braniff International 's South American routes following Braniff's closure in 1982 [ 5 ] and served London Gatwick in 1985 via its McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 "Golden Wings" service.
The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.It borders First Avenue to the west, 42nd Street to the south, 48th Street to the north, and the East River to the east. [4]
"Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822", Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, City of Boston, 1909; A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, City of Boston, 1910, OL 14037282M; Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder (ed.). New Encyclopedia of Social Reform ...
The Boston Museum of Natural History of 1830/1864–1945 should not be confused with the private Warren Museum of Natural History (1858–1906, formerly on Chestnut Street in Boston). The contents of the latter collection, including the first intact mastodon, were relocated to the American Museum of Natural History of New York City in 1906.
The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [1] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.