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  2. Romani people in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Romani people have lived and travelled throughout the state of New York. [ 1] Muslim Romani people from southern Yugoslavia settled in the Bronx. An increase in attacks on Romani people in eastern Europe brought growing numbers of Romani refugees to New York City during the 1990s. Roma in Greater New York are mainly descended from liberated ...

  3. New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York, often called New York City[b]or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York Stateon one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global centerof finance[11]and commerce, culture, technology,[12 ...

  4. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624. The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from ...

  5. Farmingdale, New York - Wikipedia

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    Major roads are New York State Routes 24 (Conklin Street), 27 (Sunrise Highway), 109 (Fulton Street), and 110 (Broad Hollow Road), as well as the Southern State Parkway and Bethpage State Parkway. The village is the site of a transit-oriented development centered around the LIRR station. A Long Island Greenway is planned from Farmingdale to ...

  6. Washington Square Arch - Wikipedia

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    Width. 57 ft (17 m) Height. 73.5 ft (22.4 m) Span. 30 ft (9.1 m) The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [2] it commemorates the centennial of George ...

  7. Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    June 14, 1984. Designated NYCL. February 28, 1967 [ 4 ] The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer is a Catholic parish in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1918 by the Dominicans; the attached priory serves as the headquarters of the Eastern United States Province of the order.

  8. Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited ...

  9. Romanian Americans - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The language spread of Romanian in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000. Romanian Americans (Romanian: Români Americani) are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 478,278 Americans indicated Romanian as their first or second ancestry, [1] however other sources provide higher ...