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U.S. Route 6 in New York
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U. S. Route 6 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from Bishop, California, to Provincetown, Massachusetts. In New York, US6 extends 77.85 miles from the Pennsylvania state line at Port Jervis to the Connecticut state line east of Brewster. Near both ends, it runs in proximity to Interstate 84, which otherwise takes a more northerly route through Downstate New York. US6, meanwhile, skirts the northern fringe of the New York Metropolitan Area. Except for a section concurrent with the portion of New York State Route 17 and another brief, similar stretch in Peekskill. Two stretches are shared with US202 and it goes through three of New Yorks traffic circles, more than any other highway in the state, and is part of the only concurrency of three U. S. routes in the state. US6 is not as important a transportation artery in New York as it in other states. The route does, however, pass through some of the more memorable scenery, particularly the Hudson Highlands in the form of Harriman. It crosses the Hudson River at the historic Bear Mountain Bridge, other highlights include the Shawangunk Ridge in the west and New York Citys reservoirs in the east. The Hudson River roughly bisects New Yorks section of US6, despite its many curves and turns, the road stays in a generally east–west direction. US6 crosses the Delaware River into New York concurrent with US209, Matamoras via the Mid-Delaware Bridge, becoming Port Jervis almost seamlessly, becoming Pike Street. A few blocks north, at the Park Avenue traffic light, NY42 and NY97 begin to the left while US6 and US209 turn right. Two blocks later, the highways having not even come a mile from the state line, US6 continues to follow West Main past Port Jervis Middle School and Bon Secours Hospital, veering south to cross under the railroad tracks and then over the Neversink River. At a three-way junction with short County Route 15, US6 reaches the Port Jervis city limit, signs point to New Jersey Route 23, which begins a few hundred feet to the south, just past the I-84 overpass. From here traffic on US6 grows lighter as it parallels I-84 for the next 17 miles, trucks going through this stretch are limited to 10 tons. It slowly traverses up the Shawangunk Ridge alongside the Interstate Highway, just before exit 3, it crosses under I-84 again. At the hamlet of Slate Hill, NY284, another route down to New Jersey, US6 continues through very rural countryside through here. Shortly before Middletown, it crosses over I-84 and turns left onto NY 17M and this is US 6s last crossing of I-84 west of the Hudson River
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U.S. Route 202 in New York
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U. S. Route 202 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from New Castle, Delaware, to Bangor, Maine. In the U. S. state of New York, US202 extends 55.57 miles from the New Jersey state line near Suffern to the Connecticut state line east of Brewster. While most of US202 is signed north–south, the portion within New York is signed east–west and it drifts north slowly as it crosses southern New York. US202 is the road to cross New York between New Jersey and Connecticut and not pass through New York City on the way. Its course along the Hudson River takes it first north up the west side, over the historic Bear Mountain Bridge and it takes in many scenic areas, such as the Ramapo Mountains and Hudson Highlands, and two New York City reservoirs. Its circuitous path across the state puts it on many concurrencies—only 14.5 miles, or 26%, among the roads it joins are three U. S. highways and two state routes. It forms four three-route conurrencies, including the only grouping of three U. S. routes in the state, again in Peekskill. US 202s New York stretch is roughly bisected by the Hudson River and it is mostly a two-lane road, expanding to four in some busier sections, with a brief limited-access stretch in Peekskill. In the shadow of the New York State Thruway, it meets its first New York state highway, NY59, and has a brief wrong-way concurrency with it. It remains a two-lane route at the edge of development past Pomona and Montebello, at the foot of the Ramapo Mountains, the headwaters of the Mahwah River parallel closely. At Ladentown, the terminus of NY306, the road begins to curve to the east. Route 202 widens as it cuts across the county, still a little less developed here, towards Mount Ivy, the Long Path hiking trail also crosses here. Here the Appalachian Trail crosses under the road to its lowest elevation in the nearby Trailside Zoo, after ten miles, the US 9W concurrency comes to an end at Bear Mountain Circle, also the Palisades Parkways north end. This puts US202 very briefly in Orange County, and US6 replaces US 9W as the two join the AT in going through the tollbooths and crossing the Bear Mountain Bridge, after a brief re-entry into Rockland County, the roads cross into Westchester County. In most of northern Westchester, US202, primarily as part of concurrencies, serves as a road between the towns it passes through. It skirts the one Putnam County village along its path, and is mostly a rural road in that county, at the end of the bridge the AT leaves with NY 9D, which begins to follow the river north to Beacon and Wappingers Falls here. Routes 6 and 202 turn right to follow Bear Mountain Bridge Road, three and a half miles US6 and US202 descend to river level again and, after passing the entrance to the New York National Guard base at Camp Smith, reach Annsville Circle. At the second exit in Peekskill, the two routes leave US9, NY35 begins here and replaces it in the overlap, following Main Street across the city
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Appalachian Trail
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The trail is about 2,200 miles long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are modified or rerouted. More than 2 million people are said to do at least one day-hike on the each year. The idea of the Appalachian Trail came about in 1921, the trail itself was completed in 1937 after more than a decade of work, although improvements and changes continue. It is maintained by 31 trail clubs and multiple partnerships, and managed by the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, the majority of the trail is in forest or wild lands, although some portions traverse towns, roads and farms. The trail conservancy claims that the Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only trail in the world. It passes through 14 states, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Many books, memoirs, websites, and fan organizations are dedicated to these pursuits, other separate extensions continue the southern end of the Appalachian range in Alabama and continue south into Florida, creating what is known as the Eastern Continental Trail. The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail form what is known as the Triple Crown of Hiking in the United States. The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan—called An Appalachian Trail, macKayes idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers. The idea was adopted by the new Palisades Interstate Park Trail Conference as their main project. On October 7,1923, the first section of the trail, from Bear Mountain west through Harriman State Park to Arden, MacKaye then called for a two-day Appalachian Trail conference to be held in March 1925 in Washington, D. C. This meeting inspired the formation of the Appalachian Trail Conference, a retired judge named Arthur Perkins and his younger associate Myron Avery took up the cause. Andersons efforts helped spark renewed interest in the trail, and Avery was able to bring other states on board, upon taking over the ATC, Avery adopted the more practical goal of building a simple hiking trail. He and MacKaye clashed over the ATCs response to a commercial development along the trails path, MacKaye left the organization. Avery reigned as Chairman of the ATC from 1932 to 1952, Avery became the first to walk the trail end-to-end, though not as a thru-hike, in 1936. In August 1937, the trail was completed to Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine, the ATCs trail crews and volunteer trail-maintaining clubs have relocated or rehabilitated miles of trail since that time. The completed thru-hike was much later recorded and accepted by the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association, in 1948, Earl Shaffer of York, Pennsylvania, brought a great deal of attention to the project by publicizing the first claimed thru-hike. The claim was criticized for the hikes omission of significant portions due to short-cuts
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Stony Point, New York
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Stony Point is a triangle-shaped town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, the town is located north of the town of Haverstraw, east and south of Orange County, New York, and west of the Hudson River and Westchester County. The population was 15,059 at the 2010 census, the name of the town is derived from a prominent projection into the Hudson River. The town is in the northeast part of the county, U. S. Route 9W, U. S. Route 202, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway are major north-south routes through the town. Stony Point is included in the North Rockland Central School District and it is the most rural out of the 5 towns in Rockland County. The Americans were unable to hold the fort for more than a few days and this may or may not have contributed to Anthony Wayne earning his nickname of Mad Anthony Wayne. The economy of the town increased upon the rediscovery of limestone deposits in the 19th century, the town of Stony Point was founded in 1865 from the northern part of the town of Haverstraw. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 31.6 square miles, of which 27.6 square miles is land and 4.0 square miles. The western town line is the border of Orange County, New York, as of the census of 2000, there were 14,245 people,4,832 households, and 3,802 families residing in the town. The population density was 511.7 people per square mile, there were 4,951 housing units at an average density of 177.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 94. 33% White,1. 27% Black or African American,0. 19% Native American,1. 29% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 66% from other races, and 1. 24% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 84% of the population,17. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the family size was 3.33. In the town, the population was out with 26. 1% under the age of 18,6. 6% from 18 to 24,30. 6% from 25 to 44,24. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $71,940, and according to CNN Money the median income for a family was $97,633. Males had an income of $55,727 versus $36,424 for females. The per capita income for the town was $28,244, in comparison, the average salary in 2010 for a full-time Stony Point police officer was $126,895
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Peekskill, New York
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Peekskill, officially the City of Peekskill, is a city in the New York City metropolitan area, Westchester County, New York, in the United States. Peekskill is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, the population was 23,583 during the 2010 census. This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow, the Binney & Smith Company, now makers of Crayola products, started as the Peekskill Chemical Company at Annsville in 1864. Peekskills manufacturing base operated well into the late 20th century, with the Fleischmann Company making yeast by-products under the Standard Brands corporate name, in September 1609, Henry Hudson, captain of the Halve Maen, anchored along the reach of the Hudson at Peekskill. His firstmate noted in the log that it was a very pleasant place to build a town. After the establishment of the province of New Netherland, New Amsterdam resident Jan Peeck made the first recorded contact with the Lenape people of this area, the date is not certain, but agreements and merchant transactions took place, formalized in the Rycks Patent Deed of 1684. The name Peekskill derives from a combination of Mr. Peeks surname, located on the north bank of the Annsville Creek as it empties into the Hudson, Fort Independence combined with Forts Montgomery and Clinton to defend the Hudson River Valley. Fort Independence was built in August 1776, while Forts Montgomery, Fort Hill Park, the site of Camp Peekskill, contained five barracks and two redoubts. European style settlement took place slowly in the early 18th century, by the time of the American Revolution, the tiny community was an important manufacturing center from its various mills along the several creeks and streams. These industrial activities were attractive to the Continental Army in establishing its headquarters here in 1776, the mills of Peeks Creek provided gunpowder, leather, planks, and flour. Slaughterhouses were important for food supply, the river docks allowed transport of supply items and soldiers to the several other fort garrisons placed to prevent British naval passage between Albany and New York City. Officers at Peekskill generally supervised placing the first iron link chain between Bear Mountain and Anthonys Nose in the spring of 1777, though Peekskills terrain and mills were beneficial to the Patriot cause, they also made tempting targets for British raids. The most damaging attack took place in spring of 1777. Another British operation in October 1777 led to destruction of industrial apparatus. On leaving New Windsor in June,1781, Washington established his quarters, for a short time, Peekskills first legal incorporation of 1816 was reactivated in 1826 when Village elections took place. The Village was further incorporated within the Town of Cortlandt in 1849, an effigy of Robeson was lynched in the town. The artists were able to plan a concert in nearby Van Cortlandtville on a farm owned by a Holocaust survivor. The publicity drew a crowd of around 20,000, and it was one of the earliest performances of Pete Seegers If I Had a Hammer, Robeson sang surrounded by union guards and volunteers from the audience as protection against other snipers
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Suspension bridge
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A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of type of bridge were built in the early 19th century. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a history in many mountainous parts of the world. This type of bridge has cables suspended between towers, plus vertical suspender cables carry the weight of the deck below, upon which traffic crosses. This arrangement allows the deck to be level or to arc upward for additional clearance, like other suspension bridge types, this type often is constructed without falsework. The suspension cables must be anchored at each end of the bridge, the main cables continue beyond the pillars to deck-level supports, and further continue to connections with anchors in the ground. The roadway is supported by vertical suspender cables or rods, called hangers, in the latter case there will be very little arc in the outboard main cables. The earliest suspension bridges were ropes slung across a chasm, with a deck possibly at the level or hung below the ropes such that the rope had a catenary shape. The Tibetan saint and bridge-builder Thangtong Gyalpo originated the use of chains in his version of simple suspension bridges. In 1433, Gyalpo built eight bridges in eastern Bhutan, the last surviving chain-linked bridge of Gyalpos was the Thangtong Gyalpo Bridge in Duksum en route to Trashi Yangtse, which was finally washed away in 2004. Gyalpos iron chain bridges did not include a deck bridge which is the standard on all modern suspension bridges today. Instead, both the railing and the layer of Gyalpos bridges used wires. The stress points that carried the screed were reinforced by the iron chains, before the use of iron chains it is thought that Gyalpo used ropes from twisted willows or yak skins. He may have also used tightly bound cloth, the first American iron chain suspension bridge was the Jacobs Creek Bridge in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, designed by inventor James Finley. Finleys bridge was the first to all of the necessary components of a modern suspension bridge. Finley patented his design in 1808, and published it in the Philadelphia journal, The Port Folio, in 1810. Early British chain bridges included the Dryburgh Abbey Bridge and 137 m Union Bridge, with rapidly increasing to 176 m with the Menai Bridge. The first chain bridge on the European continent was the Chain Bridge in Nuremberg, the Clifton Suspension Bridge is one of the longest of the parabolic arc chain type
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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
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Benjamin Franklin Bridge
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The bridge was dedicated as part of the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. From 1926 to 1929, it had the longest single span of any bridge in the world. Plans for a bridge to augment the ferries across the Delaware River began as early as 1818, when one plan envisioned using Smith/Windmill Island, but it was only in the 1910s that visions began to approach reality. The Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission was created in 1919, the chief engineer of the bridge was Polish-born Ralph Modjeski, the design engineer was Leon Moisseiff, and the supervising architect was Paul Philippe Cret. Work began on January 6,1922, at the peak of construction,1,300 people worked on the bridge, and 15 died during its construction. The bridge was painted by a commercial painting company owned by David A. Salkind, of Philadelphia. The bridge opened to traffic on July 1,1926, three ahead of its scheduled opening on the nation’s 150th anniversary. At completion, its 1, 750-foot span was the worlds longest for a suspension bridge, the name was changed to Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1955, as a second Delaware River suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia and New Jersey was under construction. The bridge was closed to vehicles on July 1,2001, streetcar stations were also built in the bridges anchorages. Today, it carries the PATCO Speedline, which descends into tunnels on both sides of the bridge, both, the Eastbound and Westbound railroad tracks and support structure were reconstructed from June 2014 and finished October 2014. The Pennsylvania section of I-676 ends at the ramps to I-95, I-676 is signed across the bridge from both sides, however, to be less confusing to drivers. Before the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, New Jersey Route 25, Route 43, the seven vehicular lanes are divided by a concrete zipper barrier, which can be mechanically moved to configure the lanes for traffic volume or construction. Red and green signals mounted on overhead gantries indicate which lanes are open or closed to traffic in each direction, the lights indicate closures for construction, accidents or breakdown as well as traffic separation. Generally, during the rush hour, there are four lanes open westbound. A $5.00 one-way toll is charged to westbound passenger vehicles, trucks, commercial vehicles, mobile homes, and recreation vehicles, pay $7.50 per axle. Seniors aged 65 and older can use a program to pay $2.50 per trip. There are proposals for a Camden-Philadelphia BRT, a bus transit system between the two cities extending into Camden and Gloucester which would use the bridge. Pedestrian walkways run along both sides of the bridge, elevated over and separated from the lanes, of these
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Palisades Interstate Parkway
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The Palisades Interstate Parkway is a 38. 25-mile-long limited-access highway in the U. S. states of New Jersey and New York. The parkway is a commuter route into New York City from Rockland and Orange counties in New York. The southern terminus of the route is at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey and its northern terminus is at a traffic circle in Fort Montgomery, New York, where the PIP meets US 9W and US202 at the Bear Mountain Bridge. At exit 18, the PIP forms a concurrency with US6 for the duration of its run. The route is named for the New Jersey Palisades, a line of cliffs rising along the side of the Hudson River. The PIP is designated, but not signed as Route 445 in New Jersey and New York State Route 987C, as with most parkways in the New York metropolitan area, commercial traffic is prohibited from using the PIP. The Palisades Interstate Parkway was built from 1947–1958, and fully opened to traffic on August 28,1958, the main line of the parkway is designated as Route 445 in New Jersey and NY 987C in New York. The latter is one of New Yorks reference routes, a 0. 42-mile spur connecting the parkway to US 9W in Fort Lee, New Jersey, is designated Route 445S. All three designations are unsigned and used only for inventory purposes, the parkway is owned and maintained by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission but occasional maintenance is performed by the New Jersey and New York state departments of transportation. Commercial vehicles are prohibited on the length of the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The Palisades Interstate Parkway begins at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, passengers riding northbound on the New Jersey Turnpike must be in local lanes to directly get on the PIP. Once the PIP leaves the GWB, it proceeds north along the New Jersey Palisades, unlike service areas further north along the parkway, there are two in Englewood, one for northbound drivers and one for southbound drivers. The others are in the center median shared by drivers going in both directions, there are also three different scenic lookout points over the Palisades near the northern tip of the island of Manhattan at the Harlem River. After this, the PIP parallels US 9W and the Hudson River for its run in New Jersey. All four exits in New Jersey are either with US 9W, the PIP leaves New Jersey into New York in the borough of Rockleigh. The entire New Jersey portion of the Palisades Interstate Parkway is within Bergen County and it is designated as a state scenic byway known as the Palisades Scenic Byway. The Palisades enters Rockland County in the hamlet of Palisades, at about the border the PIP changes direction from due north along the Hudson River to a north-west direction. Shortly after the Kings Ferry Service Area in the center median, exit 5 provides a link to St. Thomas Aquinas College, and exit 6 provides a link to Dominican College
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Derby, Connecticut
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Derby is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,903 at the 2010 census, Derby was settled in 1642 as an Indian trading post under the name Paugasset. It was named after Derby, England, in 1675, Derby was incorporated on May 13,1775. In the 19th century, both corsets and hoop skirts were manufactured in the city, in 1872, the Derby Silver Company began production. In 1898, the became a division of the International Silver Company headquartered in Meriden, CT. Charlton Comics, a book publishing company that existed from 1944 to 1986, was based in town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 5.4 square miles. The city is home to the 1.4 square kilometres Osbornedale State Park, Derby is divided into two main sections by the Naugatuck River, East Derby and Derby Center. The center of Derby is approximately 66 miles from New York City, as of the census of 2000, there were 12,391 people,5,252 households, and 3,245 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,487.6 people per square mile, there were 5,568 housing units at an average density of 1,117.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 90. 08% White,3. 62% Black or African American,0. 16% Native American,1. 74% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,2. 52% from other races, and 1. 82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 67% of the population,32. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the family size was 2.94. In the town the population was out with 21. 7% under the age of 18,7. 2% from 18 to 24,33. 0% from 25 to 44,21. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $45,670, and the median income for a family was $54,715. Males had an income of $42,367 versus $30,458 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,117, about 6. 9% of families and 8. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 1% of those under age 18 and 7. 8% of those age 65 or over
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