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The first year, Birkin and Kaye Don competed in opposing Blower tourers, with Kaye winning with a speed of 137.58 miles per hour (221.41 km/h). In 1932, Tim Birkin won driving his red Blower Monoposto, clocking 137.96 mph (222.03 km/h). [18] The track record stood for two years, before being beaten by John Cobb driving the 24 litre Napier-Railton.
1965: Mack releases the Super Pumper System, to be used by the New York City fire department. [21] It would help put out 2,200 fires. 1965: The R Model Series introduced, to replace the B Model Series. Some R series models continue in production until 2005. 1966: The RL (for R-Western) model built at Hayward, California until 1981.
A fare for one trip was set at $2.75, the same as on other modes of transportation in New York City. Free transfers would be offered only to other NYC Ferry lines, meaning that riders would pay another fare if they transferred to one of the city's other mass-transit systems. [45] Transfers to other lines would be issued on request. [46]
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Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City and Nassau County. Its western end is at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where Linden Boulevard travels as an eastbound-only street to Caton Avenue, where it becomes a two-way street. The boulevard stretches through both Brooklyn and Queens – in addition to southwestern Nassau County.
The first free public high school in what is now New York City was established in Flushing in 1875. Flushing, then a small village, established a library in 1858, the oldest in Queens County and only slightly younger than the library of the City of Brooklyn (built in 1852).
A smaller part of the original garden city neighborhood was placed in a New York City historic district of the same name in 1993. Jackson Heights is in Queens Community District 3 and its ZIP Code is 11372. The zip code 11370 is co-named with East Elmhurst. [1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 115th Precinct. [5]
Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn [5] and by Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. [6]