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New York City Department of Design and Construction is the department of the government of New York City [2] that builds many of the civic facilities in New York City.As the city’s primary capital construction project manager, it provides new or renovated facilities such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses and manage the city's sewer systems, bioswales and water mains.
LIC = Long Island City; LIRR = Long Island Rail Road; LIWSCo. = Long Island Water Supply Company; MRCoNY = Manhattan Refrigerating Co. [Gansevoort Market area] NY&NJTCo. = New York & New Jersey Telephone Company; NY&QEL&PCo = New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Company; NYCTA = New York City Transit Authority; NYCTS = New York City Transit ...
Pier 62 Skatepark is an oval shaped concrete skatepark of about 15,000 sq ft. Its main features are a 10-foot-deep pool, a flow area and a street section. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The pool has three sections, a 6-ft shallow end, a 6-1/2 ft pocket and a 10 ft deep end that just goes to vert. [ 4 ]
Borough, Block, and Lot (also called Borough/Block/Lot or BBL) is the parcel number system used to identify each unit of real estate in New York City for numerous city purposes. It consists of three numbers, separated by slashes: the borough , which is 1 digit; the block number, which is up to 5 digits; and the lot number, which is up to 4 digits.
The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the construction of the Equitable Life, Western Union, and Tribune buildings in the early 1870s. These relatively short early skyscrapers, sometimes referred to as "preskyscrapers" or "protoskyscrapers", included features such as a steel frame and elevators—then-new innovations that were used in the city's later skyscrapers.
Skyline Tower, previously known as Court Square City View Tower, is a residential skyscraper in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City. [1] [2] The building topped out in October 2019, surpassing One Court Square to become the tallest building in Queens at 762 feet (232 m). [3]
An East Harlem man was slapped with second-degree murder and assault charges for allegedly fatally stabbing a teen boy during a heated dispute in Manhattan, according to police. The violence ...
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Williamsburg as part of two neighborhood tabulation areas: Williamsburg, and North Side/South Side. [144] Based on data from the 2010 United States census , the combined population of the Williamsburg and North Side/South Side areas was 78,700, a change of 6,301 (8%) from the 72,399 ...