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This heart of the Philadelphia metropolitan area's rapidly growing Vietnamese community is centered on the intersection of S. Eighth Street and Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia, [1] with "one of the largest Vietnamese populations on the east coast," [2] [3] and is a district where "... neon signs lure shoppers into grocery stores ...
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association.
2.1 East. 2.2 West. 2.3 ... Warehouse Market, The Markets ... 99 Ranch Market – the largest Asian-American supermarket chain on the West Coast with additional ...
In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains, this is rarely the case. [10] The NYC area is far from the boundaries of the North American Plate which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the west coast of North America. The seismicity of the northeastern U.S. is generally considered to be due to ancient zones of ...
The Wanamaker Organ is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world, based on the number of playing pipes, the number of ranks and its weight. [3] [4] It is a concert organ of the American Symphonic school of design, which combines traditional organ tone with the sonic colors of the symphony orchestra.
The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, [1] [2] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [3] Snow fell from 10 to 58 inches (25 to 147 cm) in parts of New Jersey , New York , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and Connecticut , and sustained winds of more than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) produced snowdrifts in ...
The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
Philadelphia has the third-largest student concentration on the East Coast, with more than 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area. [170] More than 80 colleges, universities, trade, and specialty schools are in the Philadelphia region.