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  2. New York Harbor School - Wikipedia

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    The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, also called the Harbor School, is a public high school located on Governors Island. This school is unique in New York City, which has 538 miles (866 km) of waterfront, in that it attempts to relate every aspect of its curriculum to the water. The school is part of the Urban Assembly network of 21 ...

  3. Hunter College High School - Wikipedia

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    Hunter was established in 1869 as "The Female Normal and High School", a private school to prepare young women to become teachers. The original school was composed of an elementary and a high school. A kindergarten was added in 1887, and in 1888, the school was incorporated into a college. The high school was separated from what would become ...

  4. Boroughs of New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York City's remaining four boroughs are collectively referred to as the outer boroughs. Brooklyn Landmark nineteenth-century brownstones in the Greenpoint Historic District of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough.

  5. 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting - Wikipedia

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    Niezhin. Avrutch. Malachim. v. t. e. On March 1, 1994, Lebanese-born Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students who were traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, killing one and injuring three others. [1] In 2005, this shooting was reclassified as a terrorist attack.

  6. Eric Adams - Wikipedia

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    Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer, currently serving as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022. An ideologically moderate member of the Democratic Party, Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain.

  7. Riverdale Country School - Wikipedia

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    Riverdale Country School is a co-educational, independent, college-preparatory day school in New York City serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. It is located on two campuses covering more than 27.5 acres (111,000 m 2) in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, United States. Started as a school for boys, Riverdale Country ...

  8. Student loans and grants in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Higher Education Act 2004 increased tuition fees from £1,000 to a maximum of £3,000. By the 2005/6 academic year, the SLC was providing £2.79 billion in loans to 1,080,000 students. Those starting university in 2006 were the first to pay £3000 a year rather than £1000.

  9. Municipal Credit Union - Wikipedia

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    Website. nymcu.org. Municipal Credit Union (MCU) is a state chartered credit union headquartered in New York City, regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). MCU is metro New York's largest credit union. As of 2018, MCU had $2.68 billion in assets. [1] It has approximately 425,000 members and 18 branches.