Search results
Results from the Go Local Guru Content Network
[19]: 3 The airport was designed for aircraft up to 300,000-pound (140,000 kg) gross weight [41] The airport had to be modified in the late 1960s to accommodate the Boeing 747's weight. [42] The International Arrivals Building, or IAB, was the first new terminal at the airport, opening in December 1957. [43] The building was designed by SOM.
Modeled on Europe's Christkindlmarkt, in 2002 Bryant Park introduced the Holiday Shops in an effort to liven up the park space during the winter. Initially slow to gain traction, [ 187 ] the Holiday Shops became a fixture of the Manhattan holiday scene in 2005 by expanding into an all-encompassing seasonal destination with the addition of New ...
Even though each of the approximately 7,200 subway cars were checked once every six weeks or 7,500 miles (12,100 km) of service, four or five dead motors were allowable in a peak-hour 10-car train, according to some transit workers' accounts. About 85.8% of trains were on schedule in 1970, with 1,142 equipment-related delays in April 1970. [177]
The step up is in contrast to decreases in total hate crimes and to the decline in overall crime in the U.S. since the 1990s. Specifically, the FBI's annual hate crimes statistics reports from 1996 to 2013 document average numbers of anti-Islamic offenses at 31 per year before 2001, then a leap to 546 in 2001 (the year of 9-11 attacks), and ...