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  2. Critical consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Critical consciousness, conscientization, or conscientização in Portuguese (Portuguese pronunciation: [kõsjẽtʃizaˈsɐ̃w]), is a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire, grounded in neo-Marxist critical theory.

  3. New York City blackout of 1977 - Wikipedia

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    The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...

  4. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) online; Hood. Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (2016). Cover 1760–1970. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale ...

  5. List of New York area codes - Wikipedia

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    New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 332, and 917 680: 2017: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlay of 315 716: 1947 Buffalo, Dunkirk-Fredonia, Olean, Jamestown, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and western New York; will be overlaid by 624 in 2024 718: 1984 New York City: all except Manhattan; overlays with 347 ...

  6. Schenectady, New York - Wikipedia

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    Schenectady (/ s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / skə-NEK-tə-dee) [2] [3] is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-most populous city and the twenty-fifth most-populous municipality. [4]

  7. Islam in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Paterson, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area west of New York City, was estimated to have become home to 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims as of 2011. Paterson has been nicknamed Little Ramallah and contains a neighborhood with the same name and an Arab American population estimated as high as 20,000 in 2015.

  8. List of counties in New York - Wikipedia

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    Five of New York's counties are each coextensive with New York City's five boroughs. They are New York County , Kings County , Bronx County , Richmond County (Staten Island), and Queens County . In contrast to other counties of New York, the powers of the five boroughs of New York City are very limited and in nearly all respects are governed by ...

  9. List of tallest buildings in New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...