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Long Island City Steinway Railway Company c 1894 Entrance to Court Square-23rd Street Ferry dock. The following New York City Subway stations serve Long Island City: [167] 21st Street–Queensbridge (F and <F> train) 21st Street (G train) 39th Avenue (N and W trains) Court Square–23rd Street (7, <7> , E, M , and G trains)
Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to 125 public school districts, containing a total of 656 public schools. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The list below contains each of Long Island's school districts, along with their respective schools.
At least 16 world records in swimming have been set in the facility. [2] It was built in 1998 for the Goodwill Games. Since the Goodwill Games in 1998, it has hosted numerous swimming championships and high level competitions including the USA Swimming National Championship, NCAA National Championship, Big East Conference Championship and FINA ...
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.
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The Coney Island site of the New York Aquarium is the home of the WCS New York Seascape program – the society's research and conservation program focusing on nearby rivers, harbor, and ocean from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk, Long Island. [70] The aquarium kept an orca briefly in 1968 and a narwhal in 1969.
In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. New York City contains about 36 to 42 islands in total. [1]