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Newspaper
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A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising. A newspaper is usually, but not exclusively, printed on relatively inexpensive, the journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. As of 2017, most newspapers are now published online as well as in print, the online versions are called online newspapers or news websites. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly, News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format. General-interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news, typically the paper is divided into sections for each of those major groupings. Papers also include articles which have no byline, these articles are written by staff writers, a wide variety of material has been published in newspapers. As of 2017, newspapers may also provide information about new movies, most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. Some newspapers are government-run or at least government-funded, their reliance on advertising revenue, the editorial independence of a newspaper is thus always subject to the interests of someone, whether owners, advertisers, or a government. Some newspapers with high editorial independence, high quality. This is a way to avoid duplicating the expense of reporting from around the world, circa 2005, there were approximately 6,580 daily newspaper titles in the world selling 395 million print copies a day. Worldwide annual revenue approached $100 billion in 2005-7, then plunged during the financial crisis of 2008-9. Revenue in 2016 fell to only $53 billion, hurting every major publisher as their efforts to gain online income fell far short of the goal. Besides remodeling advertising, the internet has also challenged the business models of the era by crowdsourcing both publishing in general and, more specifically, journalism. In addition, the rise of news aggregators, which bundle linked articles from online newspapers. Increasing paywalling of online newspapers may be counteracting those effects, the oldest newspaper still published is the Gazzetta di Mantova, which was established in Mantua in 1664. While online newspapers have increased access to newspapers by people with Internet access, literacy is also a factor which prevents people who cannot read from being able to benefit from reading newspapers. Periodicity, They are published at intervals, typically daily or weekly. This ensures that newspapers can provide information on newly-emerging news stories or events, currency, Its information is as up to date as its publication schedule allows
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Broadsheet
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A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages. The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats. Many broadsheets measure approximately 29 1⁄2 by 23 1⁄2 inches per full broadsheet spread, australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread. South African broadsheet newspapers have a spread sheet size of 820 by 578 mm or 32.3 by 22.8 in. Others measure 22 inches or 560 millimetres vertically, in the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 15 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs many U. S. newspapers have downsized to 12 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the size with dimensions representing the front page half of a broadsheet size, rather than the full. Some quote actual page size and others quote the area size. The two versions of the broadsheet are, Full broadsheet – The full broadsheet typically is folded vertically in half so that it forms four pages, the four pages are called a spread. Half broadsheet – The half broadsheet is usually a page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front. In uncommon instances, an entire newspaper can be a two-page half broadsheet or four-page full broadsheet, totally self-contained advertising circulars inserted in a newspaper in the same format are referred to as broadsheets. Broadsheets typically are also folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space, the horizontal fold however does not affect the page numbers and the content remains vertical. The most important newspaper stories are placed above the fold and this contrasts with tabloids which typically do not have a horizontal fold. The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news, historically, broadsheets developed after the British in 1712 placed a tax on newspapers based on the number of their pages. The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the penny dreadful. In this period all over Europe began to print their issues on broadsheets
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Gannett Company
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Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U. S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation and its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the erstwhile weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2015, Gannett Co. Inc. spun off its publishing business into a separate publicly traded entity, while retaining the internet media divisions. Immediately following the spin off, the former parent Company renamed itself Tegna, the spun off publishing business renamed itself Gannett. Gannett Company, Inc. was formed in 1923 by Frank Gannett in Rochester, New York as an outgrowth of the Elmira Gazette, by 1979, the chain had grown to 79 newspapers. In 1979, Gannett acquired Combined Communications Corp. operator of 17 television stations, as well as an advertising division. The company was headquartered in Rochester until 1986, when it moved to Arlington County and its former headquarters building, the Gannett Building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Gannetts oldest newspaper still in circulation is the Leaf-Chronicle located in Clarksville, in 2001, the company moved to its current headquarters in Tysons Corner, a suburb of Washington, D. C. The practice has spread throughout the chain, on March 7,2011, Gannett replaced the stylized G logo in use since the 1970s, and adopted a new company tagline, Its all within reach. In 2010, Gannett increased executive salaries and bonuses, for example, Bob Dickey, Gannetts U. S. newspapers division president, was paid $3.4 million in 2010, the next year, the company laid off 700 U. S. employees to cut costs. In the memo announcing the layoffs, Dickey wrote, While we have many ways to reduce costs. The USA Today website became the one to allow unrestricted access. On August 21,2012, Gannett acquired Blinq Media, around the first week of October 2012, Gannett entered a dispute against Dish Network regarding compensation fees and Dishs AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopper digital video recorders. Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for Gannetts television station, Gannett threatened to pull all of its stations should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement. The two parties reached an agreement after extending the deadline for a few hours. On June 13,2013, Gannett announced plans to buy Dallas-based Belo Corporation for $1.5 billion, the purchase would add 20 additional stations to Gannetts portfolio and make the company the fourth largest television broadcaster in the U. S. with 43 stations. On December 16,2013, the United States Department of Justice announced that Gannett, Belo, the deal was approved by the FCC on December 20, and it was completed on December 23. On February 28,2014, Meredith Corporation officially took over control of KMOV
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White Plains, New York
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White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is the county seat and commercial hub of Westchester, an affluent suburban county just north of New York City that is home to almost one million people, White Plains is located in south-central Westchester, with its downtown 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. As of 2013, the total population was estimated to be 57,866. According to the city government, the daytime population is estimated at 250,000. The city was ranked third in the top 10 places to live in New York for 2014, according to national online real estate brokerage Movoto. At the time of the Dutch settlement of Manhattan in the early 17th century, however, John Richbell of Mamaroneck claimed to have earlier title to much of the territory through his purchase of a far larger plot extending 20 miles inland, perhaps from a different tribe. The matter wasnt settled until 1721, when a Royal Patent for White Plains was granted by King George II, the unincorporated village remained part of the Town of Rye until 1788, when the town of White Plains was created. On July 9,1776, a copy of the Declaration of Independence was delivered to the New York Provincial Congress, the delegates quickly adopted a resolution approving the Declaration, thus declaring both the colonys independence and the formation of the State of New York. The Declaration itself was first publicly read from the steps of the courthouse on July 11, the Battle of White Plains took place primarily on Chatterton Hill, and the Bronx River. Howes forces had suffered 250 casualties, a loss, and he made no attempt to pursue the Continentals, whose casualties were about 125 dead. Three days after the battle Washington withdrew north of the village, but after several inconclusive skirmishes over the next week Howe withdrew on November 5, leaving White Plains to the Continentals. Although he was court-martialed and convicted for this action, he escaped punishment, the first United States Census, conducted in 1790, listed the White Plains population at 505, of whom 46 were slaves. By 1800, the population stood at 575 and in 1830,830, by 1870,26 years after the arrival of the New York Central Railroad, it had swollen to 2,630 and by 1890 to 4,508. In the decades that followed the count grew to 7,899 and 26,425, White Plains was incorporated as a village in 1866 and as a city in 1916. Early in the 20th century, White Plains downtown area developed into a dominant suburban shopping district and featured branch stores of many famous New York-based department and specialty stores. Some of these locations were the first large-scale suburban stores built in the United States. With the construction of the parkways and expressways in the 1940s and 1960s, with a city opening ceremony Macys launched a grand White Plains store on Main Street across from City Hall in 1949. As the mayor said at the time, this was a significant event in the life of White Plains, at the time of its construction, the Westchester One building was the largest office building between New York City and Albany, and east to Hartford
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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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Westchester County, New York
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Westchester County is a county in the U. S. state of New York. It is the second-most populous county on the mainland of New York, according to the 2010 Census, the county had a population of 949,113, estimated to have increased by 2. 9% to 976,396 by 2015. Situated in the Hudson Valley, Westchester covers an area of 450 square miles, consisting of 6 cities,19 towns, established in 1683, Westchester was named after the city of Chester, England. The county seat is the city of White Plains, the annual per capita income for Westchester was $47,813 in 2011. The 2011 median household income of $77,006 was the fifth highest in New York, by 2014, the countys median household income had risen to $83,422. Westchester County ranks second in the state after New York County for median income per person, Westchester County is one of the centrally located counties within the New York metropolitan area. They called the region Lenapehoking, which consisted of the area around, the first European explorers to visit the Westchester area were Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 and Henry Hudson in 1609. Dutch settlers began arriving in the 1620s, followed by settlers from England in the 1640s, Westchester County was one of the original twelve counties of the Province of New York, created by an act of the New York General Assembly in 1683. At the time it included present day Bronx County, and abutted then-Dutchess County to the north, by 1775, Westchester was the richest and most populous county in the colony of New York. Although the Revolutionary War devastated the county, recovery after the war was rapid, in 1788, five years after the end of the war, the county was divided into 20 towns. In 1798, the first federal census recorded a population of 24,000 for the county. Two developments in the first half of the 19th century – the construction of the first Croton Dam and Aqueduct, and the coming of the railroad – had enormous impacts on the growth of Westchester. The Croton Dam and Aqueduct was begun in 1837 and completed in 1842, now a National Historic Landmark, the Croton Aqueduct is considered one of the great engineering achievements of the 19th century. In the 1840s, the first railroads were built in Westchester, and included the New York and Harlem Railroad, the Hudson River Railroad, the railroads often determined the growth of a town, and the population shifted from Northern to Southern Westchester. By 1860, the county population was 99,000. The period following the American Civil War enabled entrepreneurs in the New York area to create fortunes, during the latter half of the 19th century, Westchesters transportation system and labor force attracted a manufacturing base, particularly along the Hudson River and Nepperhan Creek. In 1874, the portion of the present Bronx County was transferred to New York County. These would later split from Manhattan to form their own county, during the 20th century, the rural character of Westchester would transform into the suburban county known today
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Rockland County, New York
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Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U. S. state of New York, part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is New City, the name derives from rocky land, as the area was described by early Dutch and English settlers. Rockland County is the smallest county by area in New York State outside of New York City and it comprises five towns and nineteen incorporated villages, with numerous unincorporated villages and hamlets. Rockland County is designated as a Preserve America Community, and roughly one-third of the county is parkland, the county has the largest Jewish population per capita of any U. S. county, with 31. 4%, or 90,000 residents, being Jewish. Rockland also ranks 9th on the list of counties by median household income in the United States with $75,306 according to the 2000 census. In 2015, Suffern was named as the best place to start a business in New York by NerdWallet, NerdWallet also included the villages of Haverstraw, West Haverstraw and Spring Valley in their report. On February 14,2017 Edwin J. Day, County Executive of Rockland County proclaim February 14,2017 as Rockland County Local History Day, the area that would become Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Aboriginals, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area and these settlers, eager to escape city life, moved from Manhattan to Rockland. A number of unique Dutch-style red sandstone houses still stand, when the Duke of York established the first twelve counties of New York in 1683, present-day Rockland County was part of Orange County known then as Orange County South of the Mountains. Orangetown was created at the time under a royal grant. Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the natural barrier of the Ramapo Mountains and the size of the county made it difficult to carry out governmental activities. At one point there were twin governments, one on side of the Ramapo Mountains. For this reason, Rockland split off from Orange in 1798 to form its own county and that same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built. Haverstraw was separated from Orangetown in 1719 and became a town in 1788, it included the present-day Clarkstown, Ramapo, Clarkstown and Ramapo became towns in 1791, followed by Stony Point in 1865. George Washington had headquarters for a time at John Sufferns tavern, British Major John André met with American traitor Benedict Arnold near Stony Point to buy the plans for the fortifications at West Point. André was captured with the plans in Tarrytown on his way back to the British lines, he was brought to Tappan for trial in the Tappan church, found guilty, two days later Washington visited Sir Guy aboard a British war vessel. On this day the Kings Navy fired its first salute to the flag of the United States of America, in the decades following the Revolution, Rockland became popular for its stone and bricks. These products, however, required quarrying in land that many believed should be set aside as a preserve
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Putnam County, New York
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Putnam County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 99,710, Putnam County formed in 1812 from Dutchess County and is named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. Putnam County is included in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is located in the lower Hudson River Valley. Midtown Manhattan is around a one-hour drive, and Grand Central Terminal is approximately 1 hour,20 minute train ride from the county, in 1609, a Native American people called the Wappinger inhabited the east bank of the Hudson River. They farmed, hunted, and fished throughout their range, often encountering Dutch traders, from whom they obtained goods such as alcohol and firearms. The colonial Province of New York and the Connecticut Colony negotiated an agreement on November 28,1683, establishing their border as 20 miles east of the Hudson River, Dutchess county was then established as one of New Yorks twelve counties. It included all of todays Putnam County and two towns in the present Columbia county, until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster county. In 1691, a group of Dutch traders purchased a tract of land from the Wappingers spanning from Hudson to the Connecticut border. Six years later sold it to wealthy Dutch-American merchant Adolphus Philipse. After Adolph Philipses death, the Patent was divided in 1754 into nine lots granted to three heirs, Mary Philipse, Philip Philipse, and Susannah Philipse Robinson, during the French and Indian War, many of the Wappingers went to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Putnam was slow to be settled compared to parts of the Hudson Valley. Firstly, it was owned and settlement was limited to tenent farmers willing to pay a portion of their earnings to Phillipse. Secondly, it was hilly and rocky and unattractive to farmers looking for tillable cropland. An early settler was the Hayt family, which built a farm called The Elm in 1720, jacob Haviland settled in the Oblong in 1731 in what became known as Haviland Hollow. The first village in the county was Fredericksburg, now the hamlet of Patterson, during the Revolution, the Philipses stayed loyal to the Crown and were stripped of their lands. The Philipse Patent was sold along with the rest of their holdings, the dispute over The Oblong was resolved in the aftermath of the war, with the heavily settled tract being incorporated as the first of two versions of the Town of Southeast. Also resolved was The Gore, an area near Fishkill Creek above the Hudson Highlands along the northern border of the Phillipse patent. Being geographically similar to the Livingston and Beekman patents it abutted, Putnam was also able to function as a separate county because of the easy transportation provided by the Hudson River
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Merger
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Mergers and acquisitions are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations or their operating units are transferred or combined. As an aspect of management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow, shrink. An acquisition or takeover is the purchase of one business or company by company or other business entity. Specific acquisition targets can be identified through a myriad of avenues including market research, trade expos, or sent up from internal business units, such purchase may be of 100%, or nearly 100%, of the assets or ownership equity of the acquired entity. Consolidation occurs when two companies combine to form a new enterprise altogether, and neither of the previous companies remains independently, Acquisitions are divided into private and public acquisitions, depending on whether the acquiree or merging company is or is not listed on a public stock market. Some public companies rely on acquisitions as an important value creation strategy, an additional dimension or categorization consists of whether an acquisition is friendly or hostile. Achieving acquisition success has proven to be difficult, while various studies have shown that 50% of acquisitions were unsuccessful. Serial acquirers appear to be successful with M&A than companies who only make an acquisition occasionally. It is normal for M&A deal communications to take place in a so-called confidentiality bubble wherein the flow of information is restricted pursuant to confidentiality agreements. Hostile acquisitions can, and often do, ultimately become friendly and this usually requires an improvement in the terms of the offer and/or through negotiation. Acquisition usually refers to a purchase of a firm by a larger one. Sometimes, however, a firm will acquire management control of a larger and/or longer-established company. This is known as a reverse takeover, another type of acquisition is the reverse merger, a form of transaction that enables a private company to be publicly listed in a relatively short time frame. A reverse merger occurs when a privately held company buys a publicly listed company, usually one with no business. The overall net effect of M&A transactions appears to be positive, almost all studies report positive returns for the investors in the combined buyer and this implies that M&A creates economic value, presumably by transferring assets to management teams that operate them more efficiently. The buyer buys the assets of the target company, the cash the target receives from the sell-off is paid back to its shareholders by dividend or through liquidation. This type of leaves the target company as an empty shell. A buyer often structures the transaction as a purchase to cherry-pick the assets that it wants and leave out the assets
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Mamaroneck (village), New York
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Mamaroneck /məˈmærənɛk/ mə-MAR-ə-nek is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 18,929 at the 2010 census and it is located partially within the town of Mamaroneck and partially within the town of Rye. The portion in Rye is unofficially called Rye Neck, the Rye Neck Union Free School District contains the Rye Neck portion of Mamaroneck and part of the city of Rye. Originally the farming community of Mamaroneck was located on two sides of the Mamaroneck River, in the 1890s the two areas surrounding the river were joined into one commercial village, Mamaroneck, which was incorporated in 1895. The east side of the lies in the town of Rye and is known as Rye Neck. Some controversy surrounded the incorporation of the village, but the State Appellate Court approved the villages election status, the population of Mamaroneck village in 1895 was 1,500. Along with the other communities of Westchester, Mamaroneck was at one time the location of summer residences for wealthy families from New York City. Summer residence neighborhoods included Greenhaven, Orienta and Shore Acres, the local railroad from New York City began to serve the village in 1848. Currently the village of Mamaroneck is a town for individuals working in Manhattan. A harbor on the Long Island Sound supports facilities for boating and is the location of Harbor Island Park. The main commercial streets in Mamaroneck are the Boston Post Road and Mamaroneck Avenue, local industry is centered on Fenimore Road. The Mamaroneck Methodist Church, St. Thomas Episcopal Church Complex, Mamaronecks Skinny House, and Albert E. and Emily Wilson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 6.7 square miles, of which 3.2 square miles is land and 3.5 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 18,929 people residing in the village, the population density was 5,799.4 inhabitants per square mile. There were 7,353 housing units at a density of 2,274.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 65. 3% White,3. 7% Black or African American,0. 1% Native American,4. 8% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 4% from other races, and 1. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 24. 3% of the population,28. 1% 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 2.66 and the family size was 3.28
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Mount Vernon, New York
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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough of the Bronx. As of the 2010 census, Mount Vernon had a population of 67,292, Mount Vernon, the eighth-most populous city in the state of New York, has two major sections. Southside Mount Vernon is more urban, resembling the Bronx to the south, while the results were positive elsewhere, the returns were so negative in Mount Vernon and Yonkers that those two areas were not included in the consolidated city and remained independent. Anne Hutchinson founded the Westchester city in the 17th century and named it for its green mount, during the 1960s, Mount Vernon was a divided city on the brink of a northern style segregation. Many blacks from the southern United States migrated north and settled in the city of Mount Vernon for better job opportunities and educational advancements. At the same time, many white Americans from the Bronx, as a result, Mount Vernon became divided in two by the New Haven Line railroad tracks of the Metro-North Railroad, Northside and Southside. The population south of the tracks became predominantly black, while north of the tracks was largely white. At the height of segregation in the 1970s, August Petrillo was mayor. When he died, Thomas E. Sharpe was elected mayor, upon Sharpes death in 1984, Carmella Iaboni took office as acting mayor until Ronald Blackwood was elected, Blackwood was the first Afro-Caribbean mayor of the city. In 1996, Ernest D. Davis was elected the mayor of Mount Vernon, Young, Jr. became the citys mayor on January 1,2008. Four years later, on January 1,2012, Ernest D. Davis became the 21st mayor of Mount Vernon, in 2013, Davis was investigated for failure to report rental income. In 2015, Richard Thomas ran against Davis and defeated him in a victory during the September primary. Thomas had to run again in the November general election, where he received 71% of the votes to become the next Mayor of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon has in recent years undergone a transition from a city of homes and small businesses to a city of regional commerce. Between 2000 and 2006, the city of Mount Vernons economy grew 20. 5%, St. Pauls Church is a Mount Vernon attraction designated as a National Historic Site. It is the third-largest and the most densely populated city in Westchester County, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.4 square miles, of which 0.015 square miles, or 0. 39%, is water. Mount Vernons elevation at City Hall is about 235 feet, reflecting its location between the Bronx River to the west and the Hutchinson River to the east. On a clear day, the Throgs Neck Bridge can be seen from 10 miles away from many parts of the city, while at night, the bridges lights can also be seen
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New Rochelle, New York
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New Rochelle /rəˈʃɛl/ is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2007, the city had a population of 73,260, as of the 2010 Census, the citys population had increased to 77,062. In November 2008 Business Week magazine listed New Rochelle as the best city in New York State, in 2014, New Rochelle was voted the 13th best city to live in, out of 550 cities, and was the only city in Westchester County on the list. The European settlement was started by refugee Huguenots in 1688, who were fleeing persecution in France after the revocation by the king of the Edict of Nantes. Many of the settlers were artisans and craftsmen from the city of La Rochelle, France, some 33 families established the community of la Nouvelle-Rochelle in 1688. A monument containing the names of these stands in Hudson Park. Thirty-one years earlier, the Siwanoy Indians, a band of Algonquian-speaking Lenape sold their land to Thomas Pell, in 1689 Pell officially deeded 6,100 acres for the establishment of a Huguenot community. Jacob Leisler is an important figure in the histories of both New Rochelle and the nation. He arrived in America as a mercenary in the British army and he was subsequently appointed acting-governor of the province, and it was during this time that he acted on behalf of the Huguenots. Of all the Huguenot settlements in America founded with the intention of being distinctly French colonies, the colony continued to attract French refugees until as late as 1760. The choice of name for the city reflected the importance of the city of La Rochelle and of the new settlement in Huguenot history, French was spoken, and it was common practice for people in neighboring areas to send their children to New Rochelle to learn the language. In 1775, General George Washington stopped in New Rochelle on his way to command of the Army of the United Colonies in Massachusetts. The British Army briefly occupied sections of New Rochelle and Larchmont in 1776, following British victory in the Battle of White Plains, New Rochelle became part of a Neutral Ground for General Washington to regroup his troops. After the Revolutionary War ended in 1784, patriot Thomas Paine was given a farm in New Rochelle for his service to the cause of independence, the farm, totaling about 300 acres, had been confiscated from its owners by state of New York due to their Tory activities. The first national census of 1790 shows New Rochelle with 692 residents,136 were African American, including 36 who were freemen and the remainder slaves. Through the 18th century, New Rochelle had remained a modest village that retained an abundance of agricultural land, during the 19th century, however, New York City was a destination from the mid-century on by waves of immigration, principally from Ireland and Germany. More established American families left New York City and moved into this area, the 1820 Census showed 150 African-Americans residing in New Rochelle, six of whom were still slaves. The state had abolished slavery with by a plan, children of slave mothers were born free
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Ossining (village), New York
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Ossining /ˈɒsᵻnɪŋ/ is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 25,060 at the 2010 census, as a village, it is located in the town of Ossining. Ossining borders the shores of the widest part of the Hudson River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 6.3 square miles. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 25,060 people residing in the village. The racial makeup of the village was 37. 1% White,15. 6% Black,0. 1% Native American,4. 2% Asian,41. 4% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. As of the census of 2000, there were 24,010 people,8,227 households, the population density was 7,464.8 people per square mile. There were 8,515 housing units at a density of 2,647.4 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12. 08% of the population,28. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the family size was 3.17. In the village, the population was out with 20. 7% under the age of 18,8. 3% from 18 to 24,39. 1% from 25 to 44,20. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 117.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 119.4 males, the median income for a household in the village was $52,185, and the median income for a family was $60,179. Males had an income of $40,412 versus $36,975 for females. The per capita income for the village was $25,036, about 7. 6% of families and 10. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12. 9% of those under age 18 and 8. 3% of those age 65 or over. Frederick Philipse bought the area which constitutes the Town of Ossining from the Sint Sinck Indians in 1685. The Sint Sinck are members of the Matinecock tribe, who resided in the area of Cow Neck Peninsula on Long Island. His Manor extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the border between present day Manhattan and the Bronx to the Croton River
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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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Port Chester, New York
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Port Chester (locally pronounced PORT-chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The village is part of the town of Rye, as of the 2010 census, Port Chester had a population of 28,967. The village name is pronounced with the same syllable stress pattern as that of the county which contains it, i. e. PORT ches-ter, not Port CHES-ter. Port Chester is one of only 12 villages in New York still incorporated under a charter, in 1660, three settlers from Greenwidge, Thomas Studwell, John Coe, and Peter Disbrow, arranged to buy Manursing Island and the land near the Byram River from the Mohegan Indians. The land that they bought is now Port Chester, the village was originally known as Saw Pit for the saw pits which were in use during the time. Logs were cut in holes in the ground for wood to be used for shipbuilding, the name of Sawpit was used for the first time in 1732. The village eventually outgrew this name and became Port Chester by incorporating as a village in 1868, when Port Chester was first incorporated, it was considered a major seaport. In 1665, Sawpit was claimed by both New York and Connecticut, however, the land was given back to the New York Colony by Connecticut in 1683. This struggle over the ownership of Sawpit continued for almost 105 years, in 1788, the Legislature of New York ruled that Sawpit was a part of the town of Rye in New York. Travel was considered dangerous in the years of Sawpit as good roads were hard to find. The Boston Post Road, King Street, and Grace Church streets are some of the migration paths in the Sawpit/Rye settlement. Other roads were dirt, which made transportation via water important. The local waterways, the Byram River and Long Island Sound, were a key part of the growth, early residents took part in boat building, farming, and shell fishing. As of the census of 2010, there were 28,967 people,9,240 households, the population density was 11,722.5 people per square mile. There were 10,046 housing units at a density of 4,185.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 31. 6% White,5. 3% African American,0. 2% Native American,2. 0% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,0. 7% some other race, and 0. 9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 59. 4% of the population,24. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.08 and the family size was 3.54
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Tarrytown, New York
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Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the bank of the Hudson River, about 25 miles north of midtown Manhattan in New York City. To the north of Tarrytown is the village of Sleepy Hollow, to the south the village of Irvington, the Tappan Zee Bridge crosses the Hudson at Tarrytown, carrying the New York State Thruway to South Nyack, Rockland County and points in Upstate New York. The population was 11,277 at the 2010 census, the Native American Weckquaesgeek tribe, who were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and further related to the Mohicans, lived in the area prior to European settlement. They fished the Hudson River for shad, oysters and other shellfish, the first European settlers of Tarrytown were Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that the first Dutch residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645, however, Tarrytown sits within the lands of the former Dutch Colony of New Netherland which became English territory in 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster. The Dutch called the area Terwe Town, the soil was light and ideal for growing cereal grains like wheat, mispronunciations led to the current name of Tarrytown. In 1780, in a famous Revolutionary War incident, Major John André was arrested as a spy in Tarrytown, André, a British army officer, was traveling south through the village on the Albany Post Road when he was stopped and searched by three local militiamen. When suspicious papers were found in his boot, he was arrested as a spy, Tarrytown was described in 1820 by the writer Washington Irving in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small town or rural port which by some is called Greenburgh. The Underground Railroad ran through Tarrytown prior to the end of the U. S. Civil War, Tarrytown later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including John D. Rockefeller, who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit, Rockefellers elaborate mansion, was completed in 1906, in 1914, Kykuit became the site of numerous labor protests by radical anarchists, which were broken up by police in a series of violent clashes. Kykuit was the target of at least two bombing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists Alexander Berkman and Luigi Galleani. On November 19,1915, a dynamite bomb was discovered at Cedar Cliff. Police theorized the bomb was planted by anarchists and Industrial Workers of the World radicals as a protest against the execution of IWW member Joe Hill in Salt Lake City. The bomb was discovered by a gardener, John Walquist, who found four sticks of dynamite, weighing a pound each, the bomb was later defused by police. Lyndhurst and Sunnyside are listed as National Historic Landmarks, the General Motors car manufacturing plant North Tarrytown Assembly was located in North Tarrytown until 1996. Todays Metro-North Railroads Hudson Line runs through the abandoned property, the two villages have shared a school district for 55 years
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West Nyack, New York
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West Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Blauvelt, east of Nanuet, southwest of Valley Cottage, southeast of Bardonia and it is approximately 18 miles north of New York City. The population was 3,439 at the 2010 census, in 1847, the hamlet was named Clarksville, renamed MontMoor, and since 1891 has been known as West Nyack. West Nyack is located at 41°5′28″N 73°58′8″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.9 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,282 people,1,107 households, the population density was 1,125.9 per square mile. There were 1,132 housing units at a density of 388. 3/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 88. 03% White,1. 98% African American,0. 03% Native American,7. 59% Asian,0. 98% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 58% of the population. 14. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.95 and the average family size was 3.27. In the CDP, the population was out with 23. 8% under the age of 18,5. 7% from 18 to 24,29. 2% from 25 to 44,27. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40 years, for every 100 females there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $98,931, and the median income for a family was $106,576. Males had an income of $67,326 versus $41,518 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $40,178, about 1. 0% of families and 2. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1. 3% of those under age 18 and 5. 2% of those age 65 or over. Strawtown Elementary School became a Blue Ribbon Award winner in 2007 and this is the second school in Rockland County to win this award. West Nyack Elementary School is located in West Nyack, Clarkstown High School South is located in West Nyack. Felix Festa Middle School is also located in Bardonia, Clarksville – West Nyack and Sickletown roads Clarksville Inn –1 Strawtown Road. Built by Thomas Warner in 1840 as a hotel, the blacksmith shop still remains and is used as a retail shop, the Inn now serves as a restaurant, open for dinner seven evenings. Colonial Clarkstown –135 Strawtown Road DeClark-Polhemus Mill – Intersection of Germonds and this, Burying ground for Colored people, was deeded on July 7,1849 by James Benson and Jane Benson his wife to William H. Moor, Stephen Samuels and Isaac Williams, trustees
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Yonkers, New York
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Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U. S. state of New York, and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976. It is an suburb of New York City, directly to the north of the Bronx. Yonkerss downtown is centered on a known as Getty Square. The area also houses significant local businesses and non-profits, and serves as a retail hub for Yonkers. This grant was purchased in July 1645 by Adriaen van der Donck, van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker, a word from which the name Yonkers is directly derived. Van der Donck built a saw mill near where the Nepperhan Creek met the Hudson, van der Donck was killed in the Peach War. His wife, Mary Doughty, was taken captive and ransomed later, near the site of van der Doncks mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution. The original structure was built around 1682 by Frederick Philipse and his wife Margaret Hardenbroeck, Frederick was a wealthy Dutchman who by the time of his death had amassed an enormous estate, which encompassed the entire modern City of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns. Philipses great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III, was a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution, all the lands that belonged to the Philipse family were confiscated and sold. For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a farming town with an active industrial waterfront. Yonkerss later growth rested largely on developing industry, in 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator and the Otis Elevator Company, opened the first elevator factory in the world on the banks of the Hudson near what is now Vark Street. It relocated to larger quarters in the 1880s, the community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854 and as a city in 1872. In 1874 the southern part of Yonkers, including Kingsbridge and Riverdale, was annexed by New York City as The Bronx, in 1898, Yonkers voted on a referendum to determine if they wanted to become part of New York City. Still, some call the city the Sixth Borough referring to its location on the New York City border, its urban character. The New York City and Northern Railway Company connected Yonkers to Manhattan, a three-mile spur to Getty Square existed until 1943. Aside from being a center, Yonkers also played a key role in the development of entertainment in the United States. In 1888, Scottish-born John Reid founded the first golf course in the United States, St. Andrews Golf Club, bakelite, the first completely synthetic plastic, was invented in Yonkers circa 1906 by Leo Baekeland, and manufactured there until the late 1920s. Early in the 20th century, Yonkers also hosted a brass era automobile maker, Colt Runabout Company, despite the cars seemingly glowing performance, Yonkers was also the headquarters of the Waring Hat Company, at the time the nations largest hat manufacturer
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Mount Kisco, New York
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Mount Kisco is a village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village, the population was 10,877 at the 2010 census. The spelling Mount Kisko was used by the postmaster when a post office was opened in the village sometime after 1850. The current spelling of the name was adopted in 1875, with the incorporation as a village. The town shares its name with the Kisco River, which traverses the town, as a village, Mount Kisco originally was half in the Town of Bedford and half in the Town of New Castle. Mount Kisco became a town in its own right in 1978, the Mount Kisco Municipal Complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Marks Cemetery, and the United Methodist Church and Parsonage are also listed, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.1 square miles, all of it land. Mount Kisco lies within the continental climate zone, experiencing four distinct seasons. Winter is cold, summer is warm and humid, and spring, as of the 2013 United States Census there were 11,067 people,4,128 households, and 2,447 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,194.0 people per square mile, there were 4,103 housing units at an average density of 1,312.7 per square mile. The large number of businesses, retail stores, and financial and medical offices swells the daytime population to more than 20,000. The racial makeup of the village was 77. 79% White,5. 99% African American,0. 28% Native American,4. 24% Asian,9. 03% from other races,24. 54% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 31. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.09. In the village, the population was out with 22. 1% under the age of 18,7. 3% from 18 to 24,37. 0% from 25 to 44,21. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 98.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.7 males, the median income for a household in the village was $62,699, and the median income for a family was $68,219. Males had an income of $45,428 versus $40,040 for females. The per capita income for the village was $32,424, about 7. 4% of families and 10. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11. 0% of those under age 18 and 13. 8% of those age 65 or over
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Yahoo! News
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News originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo. Articles originally came from services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN. com, BBC News. News launched the first most-emailed page on the web and it was a well-received innovative idea, expanding on how computers could be used to do things in a society. Yahoo allowed comments for news articles until December 19,2006, comments were re-enabled on March 2,2010. Comments were temporarily disabled between December 10,2011, and December 15,2011, due to glitches, News was rebuilt using an internal content management system called the Yahoo Publishing Platform. The same platform now powers Yahoo, by 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Veteran journalists were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012, an Amazon-owned marketing data collection company claimed Yahoo. News one of the top news sites, at this point. Plans were made to add a Twitter feed, in November,2013, Yahoo hired former Today Show and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo. Celebrity debuted on June 12,2007 with little fanfare, with the press release being published on Yahoo. s corporate blog. Upon launch, MediaWeek reported that Yahoo is hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg. and that Unilever, Pepsi, and Axiata will be the sole official sponsors of the website. Due to heavy publicity on Yahoos front page and with its partnerships, readership took off, with four million readers logging on to omg. in the first 19 days alone. As of autumn 2007, omg. registered over eight million readers a month, in December 2012, Yahoo. reached a deal with CBS Television Distribution to cross-promote its Entertainment Tonight spin-off The Insider with omg. In January 2014 it was announced that CBS Television Distribution was to revert the change back to The Insider while omg. changes its name to Yahoo. Developed an application that collects the most-read news stories from different categories for iOS, the app was one of the winners of 2014 Apple Design Awards. News ranked second among global news sites, after reddit. com and ahead of CNN, News has been criticized for occasionally reporting false, sensationalistic, and poorly-written news as fact, or falsifying and sensationalizing headlines of re-aggregated news to bait readers. This has lead these misleading stories to be spread and republished by other magazines, another instance of Yahoo.6 Million, Margin Grows As Votes Continue To Be Counted was re-titled as Hillary Clinton Gets More Votes Than Any Candidate Ever. News removed the article after some backlash but did not retract the falsified headline, News on Google+ More on Google News and Yahoo News Balancing Act, How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories Columbia Journalism Review News Frontier Database Nieman Journalism Lab
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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
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National Review
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National Review is an American semi-monthly magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by the author William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955 and it is currently edited by Rich Lowry. The online version, National Review Online, is edited by Charles C. W. Cooke and includes free content and they also wanted to marginalize what they saw as the antiwar, noninterventionistic views of the Old Right. In 1953 moderate Republican Dwight D. Louis Globe-Democrat, a few small-circulation conservative magazines, such as Human Events and The Freeman, preceded National Review in developing Cold War Conservatism in the 1950s. In 1953, Russell Kirk published The Conservative Mind, which sought to trace an intellectual bloodline from Edmund Burke to the Old Right in the early 1950s and this challenged the popular notion that no coherent conservative tradition existed in the United States. A young William F. Buckley Jr. was greatly influenced by Kirks concepts, Buckley, from a wealthy oil family, first tried to purchase Human Events, but was turned down. The statement of intentions read, Middle-of-the-Road, qua Middle of the Road, is politically, intellectually and we shall recommend policies for the simple reason that we consider them right, and we consider them right because they are based on principles we deem right. On November 19,1955, Buckley’s magazine began to take shape, Buckley assembled an eclectic group of writers, traditionalists, Catholic intellectuals, libertarians and ex-Communists. The group included, Russell Kirk, James Burnham, Frank Meyer, the former Time editor Whittaker Chambers, who had been a Communist spy in the 1930s, eventually became a senior editor. In the magazine’s founding statement Buckley wrote, Let’s Face it, Unlike Vienna, it seems possible that did National Review not exist. When James Burnham became one of the senior editors, he urged the adoption of a more pragmatic editorial position that would extend the influence of the magazine toward the political center. For it is the fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. The conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, express themselves in ideas but only. In irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas, there never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals’. National Review promoted Barry Goldwater heavily during the early 1960s, Buckley and others involved with the magazine took a major role in the Draft Goldwater movement in 1960 and the 1964 presidential campaign. National Review spread his vision of conservatism throughout the country, the early National Review faced occasional defections from both left and right. Garry Wills broke with N. R. and became a liberal commentator, Buckley’s brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell Jr. who ghostwrote The Conscience of a Conservative for Barry Goldwater, left and started the short-lived traditionalist Catholic magazine, Triumph in 1966. Buckley and his editors used his magazine to define the boundaries of conservatism—and to exclude people or ideas or groups they considered unworthy of the conservative title, therefore, they attacked the John Birch Society, George Wallace, and anti-Semites
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White Plains High School
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White Plains Senior High School is the main high school in the White Plains Public Schools system of White Plains, New York, United States. It was selected by the U. S. Department of Education as a School of Excellence in 1986-87, the schools code of conduct, and its state accountability report are available online. The student body is 52.1 percent Hispanic,23.1 percent White,21.7 percent Black, and three percent Asian. Yearbook, The Oracle Newspaper, The Orange Literary Magazine, The Roar The Jiggy Showcase is a showcase that displays the diverse cultural roots of White Plains High School students. Various dancing styles, songs, and outfits are represented by performers, the showcase was named after the Will Smith song, Getting Jiggy With It. In May 2016, the school put on its last. The Songwriters Showcase exhibits students singing, and songwriting talents which are performed for a public audience, the showcase became a biannual event in 2000. The school makes available for its students two gymnasiums, a room, a track field and football field, a soccer field, baseball and softball fields, tennis courts. White Plains football team won the Section 1 class AA title in 2013 for the first time in 34 years, the school has an impressive theater department which typically puts on three plays and one musical each year. The plays are performed in the Little Theater, while the musicals are performed in the auditorium, arthur Monk - Professional football hall-of-fame wide receiver. Jay Saldi - NFL tight end and Super Bowl Champion David E. Scenes from the film Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, were shot at the high school in March 2010
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Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel
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Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel is an all-girls, private, Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York, United States. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the school provides clubs, athletic teams and special events. Good Counsel was honored by the United States Department of Education for its progress in excellence in education. There are 400 students and 37 members of the faculty, the academy was established in 1922 by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion. For over a century, the Sisters of the Divine Compassion have equipped generations with a love of learning, girls of diverse religions and cultures are accepted on an equal basis. Religious studies as well as a strong Christian way of life provides the background for the atmosphere of peace. The school is housed in the Good Counsel Complex, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in 2014 it was reported that the community was looking into selling the property as costs for maintaining the buildings were becoming prohibitive. In February 2015 the Sisters announced that the Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel would close in July 2015, the communitys leadership team reported, multiple properties were investigated and eliminated as possible sites for relocation during this past year. The Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel Elementary School was scheduled to relocate and open in September 2015 at the former Holy Name of Jesus School in Valhalla, New York
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Archbishop Stepinac High School
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It was founded in 1948 and named for Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who was at the time Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. The school boasts a rigorous academic curriculum including the 3-year Honors Academy program, as well as a range of sports. Archbishop Stepinac High School opened in 1948 with a capacity of 1,360 students and it began with freshman and sophomore years and reached its full complement in 1950. The initial purpose of the school was to establish an educational program with a diversity of subject choices leading to a well-rounded student. In addition to the preparatory program it offered a general course for boys who wanted to finish their education with high school. Boys were taught by a faculty, almost entirely religious in makeup. In its early years the administration of the school was in the hands of priests, assisted by religious brothers. Students from the school were used as extras in the 1972 film Childs Play directed by Sidney Lumet, in 2014, Stepinac Varsity Football team won the AAA Championship in the CHSFL. The School has won division championships, but it was the first time the school was League champion since 1955. Archbishop Stepinacs wrestling team won the Catholic league championship during the 2013-2014 season. The current administration and faculty of Stepinac is a mix of religious, the high school draws its students predominantly from Westchester County and has evolved into a college preparatory school. Stepinac utilizes a library of textbooks that can be accessed by students on a variety of devices and is vastly less expensive than buying individual textbooks. On November 22, the Stepinac Crusaders defeated the Iona Prep Gales in the 2014 CHSFL AAA Championship at Coffey Field on the campus of Fordham University and this victory capped of the Crusaders perfect 12-0 season. They later lost to the Canisius Crusaders in the first ever Catholic League State championship game played on December 7th at the Mitchel Athletic Complex. The Crusaders defeated Mansifeld, Monroe- Woodbury, Holy Cross, St. Francis Prep, Iona Prep, Holy Trinity, St. Anthonys, Chaminade and they defeated Cardinal Hayes 36-22 in the CHSFL quarter final and defeated St. Peters 56-0 in the semi- final. The Crusaders have been in the CHSFL AAA division since 2011, on February 4,2015,8 Stepinac Football players signed their National Letter of Intent to play at Navy, Rhode Island, Stony Brook, Assumption, SUNY Brockport, and Fayetteville State. On November 28, the Stepinac Crusaders defeated the Monsignor Martin Conference champion St Francis of Buffalo 42-28 at Grand Island HS in Buffalo, with victory they improved to 12-0 & were voted #1 by NY Sportswriters poll. Stepinac Defeated Cardinal Hayes in the CHSFL AAA championship to repeat as the AAA Champions 2014 &2015, the schools Major Bowes Auditorium is named after the host of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, Edward Bowes
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German International School New York
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The German International School New York is a private, bilingual college preparatory school that enrolls 400 students in grades Pre-K through 12. Many GIS students are citizens of German-speaking countries, increasingly, however, the school enrolls a diverse community that includes families from all over the world. Today, more than a third of GIS students are US citizens or reside in the US permanently, Kessler in response to the need to provide educational continuity for the children of German-speaking executives based in the Tri-State area of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. German-speaking parents feared that, by taking foreign assignments, their children would be inadequately prepared, in 1978, Mr. Kessler, former president of Carl Zeiss AG, founded a non-profit organization called the German Forum. The organizations prime goal was to found a school offering German-speaking children an education that would be recognized in their home countries, kesslers hope was that the institution would be one that would contribute to improving relations between nations. The school officially opened on September 8,1980, on September 23,1980, Germany’s Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hans Dietrich Genscher, led the dedication ceremony. He also emphasized, however, that the school should not isolate itself and this way, the school would become a bridge and meeting point between Germans and Americans. Beginning with the purchase of its school building in White Plains, NY in 1982. To accommodate more students of different age groups, an Upper School was added to the Lower School, the first high school graduation took place on May 15,1989. By the school’s 30th anniversary in 2010, the student body had increased to 350 with a faculty of over 40 teachers. The period between 1997 and 2001 saw the largest of many improvements to the facilities with the construction of a state-of-the-art gym complete with a professional rock-climbing wall. In September 2010, the completed the installment of solar panels on the gyms roof as part of an ongoing effort to reduce its ecological footprint. Today, the panels generate, on average, 20% of the school’s electricity. The name change became official on September 2,2014 at a ceremony attended by White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach, in first through fourth grades, students learn to read fluently and to express themselves clearly in both written and spoken German and English. To establish a foundation for the academic rigors of the International Abitur curriculum in the Middle and Upper Schools. However, all students receive daily individualized English instruction taught by native English-speaking teachers, for students for whom German is not their first language, the school provides German as a Second Language support during the school day as well as an optional after-school class. As GIS students transition from the Lower School to the Middle and Upper Schools and our outstanding faculty will encourage them to be curious, think critically and ask questions. In addition to languages, students receive instruction in math, sciences, history and social studies, economics, geography, art
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Solomon Schechter School of Westchester
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Solomon Schechter School of Westchester was founded in 1966 with twenty-two students and two teachers in the basement of Temple Israel Center. Rabbi Max Gelb, the founder, guided the school with his wife. By the end of the 1970s, enrollment reached 150 and the kindergarten was housed in a home adjacent to the main building. It is named after Solomon Schechter, who founded the United Synagogue of America and was the architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement, in 1980, Rabbi Gelb and Mrs. Gelb stepped down, and Dr. Elliot Spiegel was appointed headmaster. It was Dr. Spiegel who charted the future course, introducing innovative education programs. In 1989, with support from Joseph S. Gruss, a building was constructed on the White Plains campus to help accommodate the demands of Westchesters largest Jewish day school. In 2001, with the support of the Jewish community, Schechter Westchester constructed the M. Mac Schwebel Upper School Campus in Hartsdale, in 2005, forty years after the school was founded in the basement of Temple Israel Center, Schechter Westchester graduated its first 12th grade class. In 2013, the renamed the Lower School the Dr. Elliot Spiegel Lower School to coincide with Dr. Spiegels retirement. Schechter Westchester offers STEAM education with their Engineering and Entrepreneurship program, Engineering and Entrepreneurship is designed for students entering ninth grade with a strong interest in STEAM. Students work in teams and gain the ability to access and analyze information across the STEAM disciplines and they view the world through multiple perspectives, make connections, and see patterns. This three-year program culminates in a research project solving real-world engineering problems. Schechter Westchester participates in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, the following sports are currently offered, In November 2015, the Schechter Westchester Varsity Soccer team lost to Elmira Notre Dame in the NY State Class C Finals in Middletown. Prior to this, no Schechter Westchester athletic team had made it past the class C regional semi-finals. Fifty percent of students at the school received tuition assistance in 2012
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Pace University
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Pace University is a private institution that was founded in 1906. It has a campus in Manhattan, New York City, the school also operates other properties, including a womens justice center in nearby Yonkers, city public school Pace University High School, and two business incubators. Pace University was founded by brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace in 1906 and it operated out of the New York Tribune Building in New York City, and spread as Pace Institute, operating in major U. S. cities. In the 1920s, the school divested the other facilities, maintaining its Lower Manhattan location and it purchased its first permanent home there in 1951, and opened its Pleasantville campus in 1963. Pace opened its largest building,1 Pace Plaza, in 1969, four years later, it became a university. Its White Plains campus opened in 1975 upon Paces merger with the College of White Plains, Briarcliff College was purchased two years later. In 1994, Pace moved its law school to the White Plains campus, in 1997, Pace purchased the World Trade Institute at One World Trade Center. The school put the Briarcliff campus up for sale in 2015, in 1906, brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles Ashford Pace founded the firm of Pace & Pace to operate their schools of accountancy and business. Taking a loan of $600, the Pace brothers rented a classroom on one of the floors of the New York Tribune Building, the Paces taught the first class of 13 men and women. The school grew rapidly, and moved several times around Lower Manhattan, the Pace brothers school was soon incorporated as Pace Institute, and expanded nationwide, offering courses in accountancy and business law in several U. S. cities. Some 4,000 students were taking the Pace brothers courses in YMCAs in the New York-New Jersey area, the Pace Standardized Course in Accounting was also offered in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D. C. Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, in 1927 the school moved to the newly completed Transportation Building at 225 Broadway, and remained there until the 1950s. After Charles died in 1940 and Homer in 1942, Homers son Robert S. Pace became the president of Pace, in 1947, Pace Institute was approved for college status by the New York State Board of Regents. In 1951, the college purchased its first campus building,41 Park Row in Lower Manhattan and this building, designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in March 1999, was the 19th-century headquarters of The New York Times. In 1963, the Pleasantville campus was established using land and buildings donated by the then-president of General Foods and Pace alumnus and trustee Wayne Marks, the school is now celebrating their 50th anniversary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and New York City Mayor John Lindsay broke ground for the One Pace Plaza Civic Center complex, the former New York Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street, across from 41 Park Row, was demolished to make way for the new building complex. The New York State Board of Regents approved Pace Colleges petition for university status in 1973, Briarcliff College was acquired in 1977 and became the Briarcliff campus. Finally in 1997, Pace purchased the World Trade Institute at 1 World Trade Center from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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College of Westchester
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CW is a member of the Microsoft Certified Solution Provider program, as well as of the Computer Technology Industry Association. They offer classes and exams that prepare students for certification in A+, Network+, the College of Westchester was founded in 1915 in New Rochelle, New York. The College expanded and relocated to White Plains in 1959 and incorporated in 1973 when it became accredited and firmly established as a college and it is a contemporary, post-secondary educational institution with a futuristic outlook. The first associate degrees were awarded in June 1976, additional programs received degree in subsequent years, Business Administration Marketing/Management, Computer Systems Management Applications, and Computerized Office Administration. In 1996 the Administrative Secretarial program was renamed Administrative Assistant and the Computerized Office Administration program was renamed Computer Applications Management, the Information Processing Specialist was changed to Computer Applications Specialist. In 2003 The College was granted accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. That same year, The College was granted authorization to change its name from The Westchester Business Institute to The College of Westchester, the private college offers Associate and Bachelor’s degrees in Business, Allied Health, Information Technology, Digital Media, Accounting, and Online. CW promotes small class sizes, flexible schedules, and the opportunity to opportunity to take a combination of day, evening, classes in the Day Division are offered in semesters consisting of fifteen weeks each. Courses are on a credit hour basis. Students ordinarily complete their Associate Degree in five semesters and their Baccalaureate Degree in four additional semesters, all CW online courses begin on Saturday at 12, 00am and end Friday evening at 11, 59pm according to the Online Division calendar. Courses in the Online Division are offered five terms each year for eight weeks each term, Fall I, Fall II, Spring I, Spring II, and Summer. The Online Division is on a credit hour basis and a minimum of six credits per term is required for full-time status. All programs offered are registered by the New York State Education Department
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The Galleria at White Plains
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The Galleria at White Plains is a large enclosed shopping mall located in the downtown area of White Plains, New York, a commercial and residential suburb 20 miles north of New York City. Built in 1980 by Cadillac Fairview, a Canadian developer, the 900, 000-square-foot and it opened in August 1980 and was the first of three Gallerias to open in the fall of 1980 around the nation, the others being Sherman Oaks and Fort Lauderdale. Its anchor stores are Macys and Sears, which were relocated to the mall from locations on Main Street to replace the original anchor stores. Abraham & Straus occupied the east anchor spot until converting to Sterns in 1995, the west anchor J. C. Penney closed on April 28,2001 and was left vacant until September 2003 when Sears moved in. Martin Luther King Blvd. runs directly underneath the mall, the mall was constructed adjacent to a large two-block long parking garage which is connected directly to the mall at various levels. Shopping floors were color coded blue, green, yellow and red representing Street Level, Garden Level, location of the Garden food court, during the holiday season the malls slogan was We bring more good things to Christmas. The mall was renovated in the early 90s and only the elevator remains relatively unchanged. For example, the waterfall and stage in the court was replaced with two miniature fountains situated between the escalators. Considering the general design of most enclosed shopping malls, it does not have much opportunity to create an interactive streetscape along its surrounding sidewalk areas. A late 1990s enhancement tried to correct some of these physical flaws, in recent years, the mall has experienced competition from the development of nearby, and more upscale, retail developments such as The Westchester mall and The Source At White Plains. On January 5,2009, a man fell two stories from the level to the food court level in a suspected suicide attempt at the mall. The Galleria at White Plains official website
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Trump Tower (White Plains)
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Trump Tower at City Center is a 35-story condominium located in the city of White Plains in Westchester County, New York. It was completed in 2005, and it opened on September 21 of that year with 212 residences, the Trump Organization led the development, sales, and management of the building. The building is attached to a parking building whose rooftop holds the outdoor amenities for the Trump Tower residents. Rooftop amenities include a pool and lounge area, two courts and a paddle board court. Emporis. com Page Emporis. com Page Neighborhood association homepage Official website Image Source
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Westchester County Center
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The Westchester County Center is a 5, 000-seat multi-purpose arena in White Plains, New York. It hosts various concerts and sporting events for the area. The County Center was conceived by the Westchester Recreation Commission in 1924 as an indoor recreational facility to host community programs. It was designed by the firm of Walker & Gillette. The construction project cost of approximately $785,000, a $16-million rehabilitation was completed in 1988. Lehman winds up his campaign with an address at a rally of the American Labor party in 1936 Joe Baksi, future heavyweight contender, list of over 400 boxing shows held at the center from the boxrec database. Since the fall of 2014, it has been the home of the Westchester Knicks, the New York Knicks farm team in the NBA Development League
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The Westchester
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This article is about the mall in White Plains, NY. For the shopping center in Mohegan Lake, NY, formerly known as the Westchester Mall, the Westchester is a 890, 000-square-foot, upscale shopping mall in downtown White Plains, New York. It is anchored by Neiman Marcus and New York states first Nordstrom, the fourth in the New York City metropolitan area to open locations in Short Hills, Menlo Park. Altmans was located where Nordstrom is now situated, the mall was built adjacent to the freestanding location of Neiman Marcus, which originally opened in 1972 as the only out-of-town location of its sister chain, New York-based Bergdorf Goodman. An interesting feature of the mall is that an old fountain, stores that have opened since Fall 2008 include, Kate Spade, David Yurman, Tory Burch, American Eagle Outfitters and Salvatore Ferragamo. Which included a new façade, tiling and carpeting, a new court, valet parking. Most of these amenities were completed by the holiday of 2015 season, the new food court is scheduled to open April 1st,2017. The malls new food court is going to be called Savor Westchester, juice Generation, Mighty Quinns BBQ, Whitmans New York, Bluestone Lane Coffee Company, Hai Street Kitchen, and more that will be announced closer to the opening of the food court. The fourth floor used to have a food court and a large F. A. O. Schwarz that closed in the early 2000s. Neiman Marcus Nordstrom Crate&Barrel iBus Stamford Express iBus White Plains Express iBus Greenwich-Stamford Express The Westchester Westchester Mall Review
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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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Bar Building
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Bar Building is a historic commercial building located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1926 and is a ten-story, 125-foot-tall building, above the tenth floor is a two-story, recessed penthouse. The penthouse floors are enclosed with a crenellated parapet and it is a steel-frame building clad in face brick and cement with Neo-Gothic and Art Deco terra cotta ornamentation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New York
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Good Counsel Complex
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Good Counsel Complex, also known as Convent of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, is a national historic district located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. The district consists of 10 contributing buildings, including the separately listed Mapleton, the buildings include regionally significant examples of Romanesque Revival and Mediterranean Revival inspired architecture. The buildings house the Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New York Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel
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Elijah Miller House
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The Elijah Miller House is a historic home in North White Plains, Westchester County, New York. The house is an 18th century Rhode Island-style farmhouse that was used during the Revolutionary War by General George Washington as a command post during the Battle of White Plains. The house, which is now a museum, was home to the average Colonial Westchester Ann and Elijah Miller family and this Elijah Miller house originally sat on a 600-acre farm and was probably built by John Miller in 1738. John had eight children, one of them being Elijah who was born in 1728, Elijah would marry a local named Anne Fisher and in 1770, they moved into the Miller house. Elijah Miller joined the Westchester County Militia and died in August 1776 while in camp, two of his sons, John and Elijah, were also in the Westchester County Militia, both dying of fever in camp during December 1776. General George Washington occupied the three times during the American Revolutionary War. The first was October 1776 as a command post during the Battle of White Plains, the second was the summer of 1778, Anne Miller, a widow, was General Washingtons hostess during his stays. Anne would live to be 96 years old and eventually died in 1819, a Miller daughter, Sarah Miller Cornell, lived at the house until she died in 1838 at age 84. Other people would live at the house and farm the land, such as the last owner and former Armonk Postmaster, after Westchester County purchased the house in July 1917, it was renovated and opened to the public on October 29,1918. The house is currently a museum under the Westchester County Department of Parks, outside of the house is an enormous sycamore tree which undoubtedly was there at the time of General Washingtons visit. By the early 21st century the house was deteriorating from decades of neglect and was open to the only on a very limited basis. In 2010 the county passed a $1.2 million bond issue to finance its restoration. County executive Robert Astorino, who had supported preserving the building five years earlier as a member of the legislature, vetoed the measure, saying it should be supported by private funds
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Mapleton (White Plains, New York)
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Mapleton, also known as Alumnae House, College of White Plains, is a historic home located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1867 and is a large, 2 1⁄2-story five-bay residence with Second Empire and it features a large verandah, a central pavilion tower capped with a small dome, and a mansard roof with slate tiles. Also on the property is a polygonal frame gazebo, from 1894 to 1925, it housed the convent of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion. In 1925, the house was acquired for academic use and it was owned by the College of White Plains, which merged with Pace University in 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, in 1997, it was included as part of the Good Counsel Complex national historic district. National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New York
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Peoples National Bank and Trust Company Building
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Peoples National Bank and Trust Company Building is a historic bank building located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1929 and is a nine story building in the Classical Revival style. It has an L-shaped plan and features highly finished limestone and brick materials, above the two-story base, the building remaining stories are built of brick with limestone trim. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New York
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Percy Grainger Home and Studio
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Percy Grainger Home and Studio is a historic home located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1893 and is a two-story, three-bay-wide dwelling with a hipped roof in the American Foursquare style. It features a full-width, one-story porch supported by four Doric order columns, the main entrance is a Dutch door. It was the home of musician Percy Grainger from 1921 to his death in 1961 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New York
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Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents
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Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents, also known as the Y. W. C. A. of White Plains and Central Westchester, is a historic convalescent home located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1913, and is a 3 1/2-story, the two lower stories are in brick and the upper stories in half-timbering and stucco. It has a gable roof with dormer windows. The section connecting the two wings includes the entrance, which features stone facing and Tudor arches. The connected Acheson Wallace Hall was built in 1972, the building housed a convalescent home until 1967, after which it was acquired by the Y. W. C. A. and operated as a residence for women. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011
