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    lived in Apartment 6F at 90 Avenue D in the Jacob Riis complex in Manhattan." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Riis Houses. Official map v t e...
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    Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and writer...
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    Houses". nyc.gov. City of New York. Archived from the original on January 11, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009. "Happy 60th Marcy and Jacob Riis House"...
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    Jacob Riis Park, also called Jacob A. Riis Park and Riis Park, is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York...
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  • Island Houses, Coney Island Cooper Park Houses, East Williamsburg Ingersoll Houses, Fort Greene Lafayette Houses, Clinton Hill Marlboro Houses, Gravesend...
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    east side of Avenue D is flanked by the Jacob Riis Houses (NYCHA housing), named for photographer Jacob Riis, who chronicled the plight of the city's poorest...
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    Herning, Riis began cycling at local club Herning CK. When he was not selected for the 1984 Summer Olympics, former cyclist Kim Andersen advised Riis to start...
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  • of his father and his aunt for selling heroin, Monsegur moved to the Riis Houses (also known as the projects) in New York City with his grandmother. At...
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    Hopper House Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Riis Houses Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Silk Building Tompkins Square Lodging House for...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to First Houses. "In the Beginning, New York Created First Houses" Gray, Christopher. New York Times, September 24...
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    crafts such as carpentry, welding and blacksmithing. Andreas Riis' father, Andreas Petersen Riis (c. 1744 – 1819) was a farm owner, a window maker and a glazier...
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    gardening Dos Blockos Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Nuyorican Poets Cafe Riis Houses St. Brigid's Church Stokes, following De Voe, places the geographic feature...
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    played there in 1983 and 1984. They Might Be Giants was considered the house band for some time. From 1992–95, Blacklips Performance Cult, a collective...
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    McSorley's Old Ale House has no other locations; however, a company called Eclipse Management has opened four McSorley's Ale Houses in Hong Kong and Macau...
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    Phillips Riis (April 29, 1877 – August 4, 1967) was an American philanthropist, widow of Danish-American reformer and journalist Jacob Riis. Mary A. Phillips...
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    the theater in all its incarnations has had a group of "Harold Teams", house teams that perform regularly. Prior to opening their own theatre, the Upright...
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    9922°W / 40.7293; -73.9922 The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house located at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan. The theater...
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    designed eye-catching row houses called LaGrange Terrace (now Colonnade Row) for speculative builder Seth Geer. Geer built the houses for the development in...
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    Miles out of Town, where they have Houses of entertainment at a place called Bowery, and some go to friends Houses who handsomely treat them. [...] I...
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    neighborhood as a donation to the city. Architect Seth Geer designed row houses called LaGrange Terrace for the development, and the area became a fashionable...
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    While the store continues to boast the slogan, "18 miles of books," it now houses over "23 miles" of books. Benjamin Bass was an emigrant from Lithuania who...
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  • Hopper House Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Riis Houses Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Silk Building Tompkins Square Lodging House for...
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    Dunlap, David W. (2004). From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 191. ISBN 0-231-12543-7...
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    to take all their concert bookings "in-house", led by Heath Miller. Since taking their concert bookings in house for all events starting in August 2014...
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    effect was accomplished by making the central houses taller and closer to the street, while the other houses on the side were set back. The central buildings...
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    Hopper House Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Riis Houses Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Silk Building Tompkins Square Lodging House for...
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    Hopper House Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Riis Houses Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Silk Building Tompkins Square Lodging House for...
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    Fun Home, Hamilton, and Eclipsed.[citation needed] The Public has been housed in a landmarked Romanesque revival structure at 425 Lafayette Street since...
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    its first development, the First Houses, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The parcel of land the houses were located on were purchased from...
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