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Cairo / ˈ k ɛər oʊ / is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 6,644 at the 2020 census. It is the third largest town in the county. [3] [4] The town is in the southern part of the county, partly in the Catskill Park. The town contains a hamlet, also named Cairo.
The hamlet of Cairo is located in east-central Greene County at (42.302637, -74.003818), [4] near the geographic center of the town of New York State Route 23 curves through the northern part of the community, leading southeast 9 miles (14 km) to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson River at the village of Catskill, and west 16 miles (26 km) to Windham in the Catskill Mountains.
Round Top is a hamlet (and census-designated place) [2] in the town of Cairo in Greene County, New York, United States. [3] It is 9.1 miles (14.6 km) west-northwest of Catskill. The hamlet has a post office with ZIP code 12473, which opened on January 3, 1910. [4] [5]
Passed by Congress in 1910 in response to outrage over the new Cairo Hotel, the Height Act has capped development across the city at 130 feet. ... the D.C. Zoning Commission would finally be ...
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Cairo's turbulent history of race relations is marked by the 1909 spectacle lynching of black resident William James. In 1900, Cairo had a population of nearly 13,000. Of that total, approximately 5,000 residents were African-American, or 38 percent. In 1900, this was an unusually high black population for a town of Cairo's size in the North.
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
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