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  2. NYC Media | Wikipedia

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    NYC Media is the official public radio, television, and online media network and broadcasting service of New York City, which has been called the media capital of the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The network oversees four public television channels, a public radio station, and an Internet video on demand service.

  3. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 | Wikipedia

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    Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until the current day. It has been called "the single most important ...

  4. Flatiron Building | Wikipedia

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    The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, [ 6 ] is a 22-story, [ 7 ] 285-foot-tall (86.9 m) steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg, and sometimes called, in its early days, " Burnham's Folly ...

  5. List of New York City newspapers and magazines | Wikipedia

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    The Chief (public service weekly) City & State (public service bi-weekly) Columbia Daily Spectator (weekly) Crain's New York Business (weekly) Der Blatt (Yiddish-language weekly) Der Yid (Yiddish-language weekly) Duo Wei Times (Chinese-language) El Diario La Prensa (Spanish-language daily) Empire State News (daily)

  6. Media in New York City | Wikipedia

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    New York City has been called the media capital of the world. [1][2] The media of New York City are internationally influential and include some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, biggest record companies, and most prolific television studios in the world. It is a major global center for the book, magazine, music ...

  7. Grid plan | Wikipedia

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    Grid plan. A simple grid plan from 1908 of Palaio Faliro. A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg. The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks. In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to ...

  8. Times Square | Wikipedia

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    Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie -shaped plaza five blocks long between 42nd and 47th ...

  9. Media in New York's Capital District | Wikipedia

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    The media in New York 's Capital District is part of the Albany - Schenectady - Troy media market, which is the 59th largest in the United States, [1] includes all of the 11 counties of the Capital District, along with Hamilton County, New York, as well as Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and Bennington County, Vermont.