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The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), a branch of the government of New York City, is the largest public funder of the arts in the United States.DCLA's funding budget is larger than that of the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal government's national arts funding mechanism. [16]
New York City was a prime destination in the early 20th century for Blacks during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City had the largest urban African diaspora in North America. [117] The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition. [118]
New York City has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen severe racial tension, a dramatic spike and fall of crime rates, and a major influx of immigrants growing the city's population past the eight million mark.
The new “Climate Innovation Hub” is being constructed over the next three years at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park as part of a broader plan to “future-proof” New York by ...
A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5]
Subway, the fast-food chain, was one of the backers of breaking in Team Great Britain (which didn’t make the final cut to the Olympics). Its reason for supporting the sport was because it was ...
The way the US government classifies race and ethnicity is about to undergo the biggest change in almost 30 years — and that could alter our racial landscape.
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.