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Todt Hill (/ ˈ t oʊ t / TOHT) [1] is a 401-foot-tall (122 m) hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York.It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod. [2]
An autobiographical account of a woman hiking a portion of the PCT alone in 1995 at age 26 was written by Cheryl Strayed. Her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was published in 2012 and reached #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. [44] Her hike is the subject of the 2014 film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon.
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is in its 120th year. The tradition of thousands of people crowding to watch a shimmering ball be lowered in Times Square began in 1907, though the first ...
06:30, Kelly Rissman. NYC’s flooding is linked to climate change. Three to six inches of rain have fallen with several more on the way in the next 24 hours, according to the National Weather ...
Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., [1] the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
Chilling video shows the moments a gunman calmly shoots down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at close range on the streets of Midtown Manhattan.. In the video, the unidentified assailant ...
Battle Hill is the highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, United States, at 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. [1] The hill is part of the Harbor Hill Moraine , a terminal moraine formed during the last glacial period .