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The CBS Building stands directly above a New York City Subway tunnel connecting the Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street subway lines. [5] [b] The building, developed for broadcasting company CBS, was designed to occupy only 60 percent of its site. [7] [8] It is three blocks north of Rockefeller Center, the headquarters of CBS's rival NBC. [9]
No new buildings were completed between 1976 and 1989, [245] due to delays in the subway line's opening and the city's financial troubles. [246] The Roosevelt Island Tramway to Manhattan opened in May 1976, [247] and the U.S. government provided a grant the same year to fund the construction of parks on the island. [248]
Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company bus (M8) replaced Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad's Grand Street Line streetcar on July 30, 1932. Operations taken over by Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority in 1980. In October 1987, the MTA Board approved plans to discontinue the route due to low ridership.
In early 2014, Abbott participated in sessions held at the headquarters of the United States Chamber of Commerce to devise a legal strategy to dismantle climate change regulations. [219] In 2016, he supported Scott Pruitt 's appointment as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying, "He and I teamed up on many lawsuits against ...
The 1982–1983 Tyre headquarters bombings; The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, by the Islamic Jihad Organization. [238] The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, by the Islamic Jihad Organization, that killed 241 U.S. marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut. [239]
Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts.Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
[104] [105] As president of the Sun-Times ' holding company, Radler had negotiated the sale of the paper's headquarters building to Trump's consortium. The price of Radler's condo had been discounted by 10%, and only a 5% deposit was required instead of the standard 15%. [ 104 ]