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Armstrong Investigation. The Armstrong Committee, formally the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York to Investigate and Examine into the Business and Affairs of Life Insurance Companies Doing Business in the State of New York was an investigation begun in late 1905 when the New York State Legislature initiated an ...
The Malbone Street wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line accident, was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred on November 1, 1918, on the New York City Subway 's BMT Brighton Line (now part of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line) in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. A speeding train derailed in the sharply curved ...
The MTA is rolling out new alerts Monday that will more clearly describe how messes on the rails affect subway service. The MTA has used the vague label of "Service Changes" to tell straphangers ...
New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2012 population of 8,336,697 distributed over a land area of just 302.64 square miles (783.8 km 2), New York ...
The Smithsonian Ocean Portal is an educational website created and maintained by the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The website features regularly updated, original content from the museum's research, collections, and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content provided by a number of collaborating ...
NYC Media is the official public radio, television, and online media network and broadcasting service of New York City, which has been called the media capital of the world. [1] [2] The network oversees four public television channels, a public radio station, and an Internet video on demand service. [3]
The Associated Press ( AP) [4] is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City . Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in ...
Broadway station is a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA 's Red Line. It is located at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston. It was opened on December 15, 1917, as part of the Dorchester Extension from Downtown Crossing (formerly Washington station) to Andrew.