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Black Jews have lived in New York City since colonial times, with organized Black-Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities emerging during the early 20th century. Black Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities have historically been centered in Harlem, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens. The Commandment Keepers movement originated in ...
10474. Country. United States. The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center ( VCBC; also known as the Vernon C. Bain Maritime Facility [2] and nicknamed "The Boat" [3]) was an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The barge was anchored off the Bronx 's southern shore, across from Rikers Island, near ...
The Happy Land fire was an act of arson that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990, in the Bronx in New York City, United States. The 87 victims were trapped in the unlicensed Happy Land social club, located at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx. Most of the victims were young Hondurans celebrating Carnival, many of ...
The Correction Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA) is the second largest trade union for law enforcement in New York. COBA is also the largest municipal jail union in the United States. It represents corrections staff within the New York City Department of Correction run by the New York City Department of Correction. It has a membership of ...
New York City is an album by the Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones. It was recorded during August and September 2000, a few weeks before Jones made her own demos for Blue Note Records, and released three years later. Jones performs vocals on all seven tracks, and this album is more bluesy than Jones' debut album, Come Away with Me.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York ( MCC New York) is a temporarily closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a ...
Agency van with current logo. New York City Emergency Management ( NYCEM) (formerly the New York City Office of Emergency Management ( OEM )) was originally formed in 1996 as part of the Mayor's Office under Rudolph W. Giuliani. [2] By a vote of city residents in 2001 it became an independent agency, headed by the commissioner of emergency ...
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