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Elmira (/ ɛ l ˈ m aɪ r ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States.It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County.
"From the Hudson to the James 1626–1675: 1. New Netherland and New York". The Oxford History of the American People: Prehistory to 1789. New York: New American Library. Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World. New York: Bloomsbury Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-59691-680-7.
New York Life Insurance Building in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century. The New York Life Insurance Building was built by architects Babb, Cook and Willard and contractor Peter Lyall for the New York Life Insurance Company as its office in Canada. The final cost was $750,000.
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there.
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century.From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1894 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with eight different buildings holding the title. [15]
South of the building is Cass Gilbert's 1936 Corinthian-columned Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, which also faces Foley Square from the east.Both buildings face Federal Plaza across the square, which includes the more modern Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watson Court of International Trade Building, which houses the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Opened in 1975 in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, [5] MCC New York was the first high-rise facility to be used by the Bureau of Prisons. [6] The jail was technically an extension of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, to which it was connected via a footbridge. [7]
The R1 was the first New York City Subway car type built for the Independent Subway System (IND). 300 cars were manufactured between 1930 and 1931 by the American Car and Foundry Company, numbered 100 through 399, all arranged as single units.