Tuesday, December 18, 2018

New york

government
- http://www1.nyc.gov/site/forward/innovations/smartnyc.pageThe Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation is led by New York City's first-ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Minerva Tantoco, who was appointed by Mayor de Blasio to drive citywide technology strategy. Under her leadership, the office facilitates citywide coordination and collaboration on technology issues, serves as a catalyst for and advises agencies on innovation, and interacts with the wider New York City technology ecosystem. The office's mission is to fulfill Mayor de Blasio's vision of making NYC the most innovative, tech-friendly, and equitable big city in the world.

  • smart city
  •  http://www1.nyc.gov/site/forward/innovations/smartnyc.page

  •  http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160309/00178_037.html 美國紐約政府日前牽頭成立智能城市項目，擬將紐約打造為全球最大的智能城市。建設總成本約四億美元（約三十一億港元），其中約一億五千七百萬美元（約十二億港元）的項目資金來自中國投資者。
- The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (the New York City public schools) is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate schools. The department covers all five boroughs of New York City, and has an annual budget of nearly 25 billion dollars. The department is run by the Panel for Educational Policy and New York City Schools Chancellor.

  • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171102/PDF/a8_screen.pdf史岱文森高中是全紐約特殊高中第 一志願，亞裔及華裔學生不少，亦是香 港前財政司司長曾俊華母校。
Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, in the Hudson Valley in the town of Red Hook, across the Hudson River from Kingston. The town takes its name from an estate donated by John Bard and his wife to Columbia University so that a college could be formed there. Today, Bard College stands on the land that John Bard donated. Bard College houses the only post office for Annandale-on-Hudson's ZIP code, 12504. The land comprising Annandale-on-Hudson, sometimes shortened to just "Annandale", is primarily owned by Bard College, though there are a few private residences, some small businesses, and undeveloped land controlled by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
-  Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, a hamlet in New York, United States. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. Founded in 1860, the institution consists of a liberal arts college, a conservatory, as well as eight graduate programs offering over 20 graduate degrees in the arts and sciences.[4] The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1.[5] The college has a network of over thirty-five affiliated programs, institutes, and centers, spanning twelve cities, five states, seven countries, and four continents.Bard's Annandale campus serves as an important regional cultural institution. Both the CCS Hessel Museum of Contemporary Art and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts are located on campus. The college also hosts two acclaimed annual arts festivals, Bard SummerScape, and the Bard Music Festival.
  •  http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2017-12/04/content_35196790.htm
    New York's Bard College Conservatory of Music will teach an undergraduate program in Chinese musical instrument performance starting next fall.Bard will work with Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music to create the program, said to be the first of its kind at a Western college.

Bensonhurst is a large, multiethnic neighborhood in the southwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the United States. As defined by the New York City Planning Commission, the neighborhood's borders are 14th Avenue and Dyker Heights to the west, 60th StreetBorough Park to the north, McDonald Avenue and Avenue N Midwood to the east and northeast, Stillwell Avenue and 86th Street southeastGravesend, and 86th Street and 16th Avenue Bath Beach on the south and southwest. It is well known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its large Italian-American population. Bensonhurst has the largest population of residents born in China of any neighborhood in New York City and is now home to Brooklyn's secondChinatown.
- larry king is from this neighbourhood

buffalo
- Buffalo (/ˈbʌfəloʊ/) is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County. Prior to European colonization, French observers report the region's inhabitants were an Iroquoian-speaking tribal offshoot of the large Neutral Nation called the Wenro people or 'Wenrohronon', who lived along the south shore of Lake Ontario and east end of Lake Erie and a bit of its southern shore. Later, during the 1640s–50s Beaver Wars, the combined warriors of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy conquered the populous Neutrals[8]and their peninsular territory, while the Senecas alone took out their weak neighbors, the Wenrohronon, and their territory, c. 1651–1653. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, the architect of Washington D.C., Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nation's capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement "New Amsterdam," the name did not catch on. During the War of 1812, on December 30, 1813,[12] Buffalo was burned by British forces.
- silo city used to be a grain trading centre
- The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). Originally, it ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

  • helped the north to industrialise
Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The site was formerly an outer barrier island but became partially connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
- The original Native American inhabitants of the region, the Lenape, called this area Narrioch. This name has been attributed the meaning of "land without shadows" or "always in light" describing how its south facing beaches always remained in sunlight. A second meaning attributed to Narrioch is "point" or "corner of land". The Dutch established the colony of Nieuw Amsterdam in that area in the early 17th century. The Native American population in the area dwindled as the Dutch settlement grew and the entire southwest section of what was to become Brooklyn was purchased from a Native American elder in 1645 for a gun, a blanket and a kettle. East of Coney was originally a peninsula called Coney Hook but in 1750 a canal (called the "Jamaica Ditch") was dug through the Coney Hook salt-marsh from Brown’s creek east to Hubbard’s creek. This connection to the waterways behind the islands allowed shipping traffic to travel from Jamaica Bay to New York Harbor without having to venture out into the ocean. The canal turned Coney Hook into a detached half mile long island called Pine Island, due to the woods on it. Each island was separated by an inlet that could only be crossed at low tide. By the end of the 1700s the ongoing shifting of sand along the barrier islands had closed up the inlets to the point that residents began filling them in, eventually joining all the islands into the single present day Coney Island. Development of the island was slow over the period of the Dutch occupation up through the early 1800s due to land disputes and the intervening Revolutionary War and War of 1812. By the early 1800s there were only a scattered handful of farms across the entire island.There is no clear historical consensus on how the island got the name "Coney Island", a name, in the form of Conyne Eylandt, that shows up in early 17th century Dutch maps. The most popular theory is the name came from the old spelling of the Dutch word for rabbit, "conyn", derived from a purported large population of wild rabbits, giving it the name "Rabbit Island", The following part of the theory is that the name was anglicized to "Coney Island" after the English took over the colony in 1664, "coney" being the English version of the word rabbit. Alternative theories are that it was named after a native american tribe, the Konoh, who supposedly once inhabited it, that Conyn was the surname of a family of Dutch settlers who lived there, or that "Conyne" was a distortion of the name of Henry Hudson's second mate on the Halve Maen, John Colman, who was slain by natives on the 1609 expedition and buried at a place they named Colman's Point, possibly coinciding with Coney Island.
-  In 1964, Coney Island's last remaining large theme park, Steeplechase Park, closed. The rides were auctioned off, and the property was sold to developer Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump. Trump, convinced that the amusement area would die off once the large theme parks were gone, wanted to build luxury apartments on the old Steeplechase property. He spent ten years battling in court to get the property rezoned. At one point Trump organized a funeral for amusement parks in Coney Island. Trump invited the press to the funeral where bikini-clad girls first handed out hot dogs, then handed out stones which Fred invited all to cast through the stained-glass windows of the pavilion. Then, pronouncing the amusement park dead, he had the pavilion bulldozed. After a decade of court battles, Trump exhausted all his legal options and the property was still zoned only for amusements. He eventually leased the property to Norman Kaufman, who ran a small collection of fairground amusements on a corner of the site, calling his amusement park "Steeplechase Park".
- Thor proposed a $1.5 billion renovation and expansion of the Coney Island amusement area to include hotels, shopping, movies, an indoor water park and the city's first new roller coaster since the Cyclone. The Municipal Art Society launched the initiative ImagineConey,[44] in early 2007, as discussion of a rezoning plan that highly favored housing and hotels began circulating from the Department of City Planning.[45] MAS held several public workshops, a call for ideas, and a charrette to garner attention to the issue. Astroland, which had served as a major amusement park since 1962, closed in 2008[46] and was replaced by a new incarnation of Dreamland in 2009 and of Luna Park in 2010. City Planning certified the rezoning plan in January 2009 to negative responses from all amusement advocates and Coney Island enthusiasts. In 2012 the plan was working through the ULURP process.[47] Thor Equities said it hoped to complete the project by 2011.[48] Thor Equities plan to demolish most of the iconic, early 20th-century buildings along Surf Avenue. In their place, Sitt plans to build cheap, one-story retail, and his recently released rendering clearly shows Burger King and Taco Bell-like buildings. The Aquarium is also planning a renovation. In June 2009, the city's planning commission unanimously approved the construction of 4,500 units of housing and 900 affordable units and vowed to "preserve, in perpetuity, the open amusement area rides that everyone knows and loves," while protesters argued that "20 percent affordable-housing component is unreasonably low."Besides Luna Park, the remaining parks and attractions include Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, 12th Street Amusements, and Kiddie Park, while the Eldorado Arcade has an indoor bumper car ride. The Zipper and Spider on 12th Street were closed permanently on September 4, 2007, and dismantling began after its owner lost his lease. They are to be reassembled at an amusement park in Honduras. On April 20, 2011, the first new roller coasters to be built at Coney Island in eighty years were opened as part of efforts to reverse the decline of the amusement area.-  In 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to the Coney Island amusement parks, the Aquarium, and businesses. Nathan's, however, reported that the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest would be held the following summer, as usual. Luna Park at Coney Island reopened on March 24, 2013.[55] Rebuilding of the Aquarium started in early 2013 and is expected to finish in 2018.
-  The Mermaid Parade is held in celebration of the beginning of the summer season, and so it traditionally takes place on the Saturday closest to the calendar start of summer, June 21, regardless of the weather. The tradition began in 1983, when the first event of this kind was conceptualized and organized by Dick Zigun, who is sometimes dubbed the "Mayor of Coney Island", and who was the founder of the non-profit arts group Coney Island USA.
- note the wonder wheel 2017 film's setting is in this island


Dutchess
- Prior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples. They had their council-fire at what is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer.[4][clarification needed] On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. Its boundaries at that time included the present Putnam County, and a small portion of the present Columbia County (the towns of Clermont and Germantown). The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, second wife of James, Duke of York (later James II, King of England). Dutchess is an archaic form of the word duchess. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County.Franklin D. Roosevelt lived in his family home in Hyde Park, overlooking the Hudson River. His family's home is now the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service.
- china

  • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170514/PDF/a22_screen.pdf近年，達奇斯縣加大了對華人的招商 力度。2016年，莫利納羅縣長率領旅遊局 長等官員，在紐約州中小企業經濟發展專 員郭曼麗的陪同下，專程到紐約最大的華 人社區法拉盛，向華裔社團和僑領做招商 引資推介會。



Ellis island
- Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

Poughkeepsie /pəˈkɪpsi/ (pə-kip-see), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, is a city in the state of New York, United States, which is the county seat of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is known[by whom?] as "The Queen City of the Hudson". It was settled in the 17th century by the Dutch and became New York's second capital shortly after the American Revolution. It was chartered as a city in 1854. The site of Poughkeepsie was purchased from the Indians in 1686 by Robert Sanders, an Englishman, and Myndert Harmense Van Den Bogaerdt, a New Netherland-born Dutchman. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. The settlement grew quickly, and the Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie was established by 1720. The community was set off from the town of Poughkeepsie when it became an incorporated village on 27 March 1799.IBM has a large campus in the adjacent town of Poughkeepsie. It was once referred to as IBM's "Main Plant", although much of the workforce has been moved elsewhere in the company (2008). The site once built the IBM 700/7000 series of computers as well as the IBM 7030 Stretch computer and later IBM mainframes. The RS/6000 SP2 family of computers, which came to fame after one of them won a chess match against world chess master Garry Kasparov, were also manufactured by IBM Poughkeepsie. In October 2008, IBM's Poughkeepsie facility was named "Assembly Plant of the Year 2008" by the editors of Assembly Magazine.[18] Poughkeepsie remains IBM's primary design and manufacturing center for its newest mainframes and high-end Power Architecture servers, and it is also one of IBM's major software development centers for z/OS and for other products.

Randalls Island (also called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Islands, in the New York City borough of Manhattan,[1][2][3] separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill. The two islands were formerly separate, with the channel between them, Little Hell Gate, being filled in by the early 1960s.Native Americans called Wards Island Tenkenas which translated to "Wild Lands" or "uninhabited place",[6] whereas Randalls Island was called Minnehanonck.[7] The islands were acquired by Wouter Van Twiller, Director General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, in July 1637. The island's first European names were Great Barent Island (Wards) and Little Barent Island (Randalls) after a Danish cowherd named Barent Jansen Blom.[8] Both islands' names changed several times. At times Randalls was known as "Buchanan's Island" and "Great Barn Island", both of which were likely corruptions of Great Barent Island. John Montresor, an engineer with the British army, purchased Randalls Island in 1772. He renamed it Montresor's Island and lived on it with his wife until the Revolutionary War forced him to deploy. During the Revolutionary War, both islands hosted military posts for the British military. The British used his island to launch amphibious attacks on Manhattan, and Montresor's house there was burned in 1777. He resigned his commission and returned to England in 1778, but retained ownership of the island until the British evacuated the city in 1783 and it was confiscated. Both islands gained their current names from new owners after the war. In November 1784, Jonathan Randell (or Randel) bought Randalls Island,[9] while Jaspar Ward and Bartholomew Ward, sons of judge Stephen Ward, bought Wards.

Rat Island is a privately owned island in New York City. It is approximately 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) in size and located in City Island Harbor, which is a part of Long Island Sound. It is about halfway between City Island and Hart Island and south of High Island. It is one of the Pelham Islands.Rat Island was included in the purchase by Thomas Pell in 1654. During the typhoid fever scares of the 1800s, Rat Island was used by Pelham, New York as a typhoid quarantine hospital for about 40 infected people called the "Pelham Pesthouse".New York City purchased the island in 1888. It became a mini colony for writers and artists in the early 20th century. It was bought by Dr. H. A. Parmentier in 1908. He subsequently leased the island to the Mount Vernon Club in 1931. It was owned by a Brooklyn lawyer until 1972 when it was sold to Edmund "Red" Brennen. He said he bought it to do salvage work and store equipment. For many years crane buckets and lattice booms and other equipment were visible.[1] In March 2009 Brennen put Rat Island up for sale for $300,000. On September 26, 2011, The New York Times published an article about the island, stating the property would go up for auction on October 2, 2011.[3] It was sold at that auction for $160,000 to 71-year-old retired Port Authority worker Alex Schibli, a Swiss[4] resident of nearby City Island.[5] Schibli said he has no immediate plans for physical changes to the island, but is considering renaming it Malina Island after his granddaughter. In summer months, a couple dozen people may come to the island. In the past, during summer the Parks Department used to put waste drums so they may contain their garbage. Sometimes, the local first responders use it to practice rescue missions with boats and helicopters.[citation needed] In August 2016, a polyester copy of the statue of the Swiss freedom fighter William Tell was been erected on the island for the 725th Swiss National Day. The original was located in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland.[4] In March 2017, Schibli was sued unsuccessfully in a People's Court episode for fees charged by an engineer who he asked to give an estimate on what was needed to put a more permanent statue of William Tell on the island. It is not known how the island received its name. It has been proposed by Red Brennan and others including former prison workers that prisoners escaping from Hart Island nearby, nicknamed "rats", used the small island to rest before swimming on to City Island and freedom.[1][2] Another theory is that when the island housed typhoid victims in the 19th century it presumably attracted vermin. According to Schibli, the island's original name was "Rattle Island," because rattling noisemakers were used to ward off ships.
- https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/travel/daily/article/20181112/20542459Alex解釋這是老家想像，Wilhelm Tell是瑞士爭取自由的象徵，他的視線朝向自由神像，聯繫兩國的民主標誌。他連瑞士的路牌都仿製一份，還有老鼠島的地址「1291 Wilhelm Tell廣場」，都是他自己提議並獲批，而1291正是舊瑞士聯邦成立的年份。另一邊有些正在堆砌的大石，原來是興建中的眺望台基底。https://static.appledaily.hk/images/apple-photos/apple_sub/20181112/large/12fa399p.jpg特朗普女兒曾表示想購買老鼠島，但錯過了拍賣。

Rochester
- Rochester was one of America's first boomtowns, and rose to prominence as the site of many flour mills along the Genesee River, and then as a major hub of manufacturing.[citation needed] Several of the region's universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) have renowned research programs. In addition, Rochester is the site of many important inventions and innovations in consumer products. The Rochester area has been the birthplace to such corporations as Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox that conduct extensive research and manufacturing in the fields of industrial and consumer products.
- The Seneca tribe of Native Americans lived in and around Rochester until they lost their claim to most of this land in the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797.[8] Settlement before the Seneca tribe is unknown. Development of modern Rochester followed the American Revolution, and forced cession of their territory by the Iroquois after the defeat of Great Britain. Allied with the British, four major Iroquois tribes were essentially forced from New York. As a reward for their loyalty to the British Crown, they were given a large land grant on the Grand River in Canada. Rochester was founded shortly after the American Revolution by a wave of English-Puritan descended immigrants from New England who were looking for new agricultural land. 
- people

羅克蘭縣 Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county has the largest Jewish population per capita of any U.S. county, with 31.4%, or 90,000 residents, being Jewish.The area that would become Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Aboriginals, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape.
- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/26/health/rockland-new-york-measles-unvaccinated-ban-bn/index.html

Schenectady /skᵻˈnɛktədi/ (skə-nek-tə-dee) is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.  Connected to the west via the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, the city developed rapidly in the 19th century as part of the Mohawk Valley trade, manufacturing and transportation corridor. By 1824 more people worked in manufacturing than agriculture or trade, and the city had a cotton mill, processing cotton from the Deep South. Numerous mills in New York had such ties with the South. Through the 19th century, nationally influential companies and industries developed in Schenectady, including General Electric and American Locomotive Company (ALCO), which were powers into the mid-20th century. The city was part of emerging technologies, with GE collaborating in the production of nuclear-powered submarines and, in the 21st century, working on other forms of renewable energy.
- When first encountered by Europeans, the Mohawk Valley was the territory of the Mohawk nation, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. They had occupied territory in the region since at least 1100 AD. Starting in the early 1600s the Mohawk moved their settlements closer to the river and by 1629, they had also taken over territories on the west bank of the Hudson River that were formerly held by the Algonquian-speaking Mahican people. In the 1640s, the Mohawk had three major villages, all on the south side of the Mohawk River. The easternmost one was Ossernenon, located about 9 miles west of present-day Auriesville, New York. When Dutch settlers developed Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY) in the Hudson Valley beginning in 1614, the Mohawk called their settlement skahnéhtati, meaning "beyond the pines," referring to a large area of pine barrens that lay between the Mohawk settlements and the Hudson River. About 3200 acres of this unique ecosystem are now protected as the Albany Pine Bush. Eventually, this word entered the lexicon of the Dutch settlers. The settlers in Fort Orange used skahnéhtati to refer to the new village at the Mohawk flats (see below), which became known as Schenectady (with a variety of spellings). In 1661 Arent van Curler, a Dutch immigrant bought a big piece of land on the south side of the Mohawk River. Other colonists were given grants of land by the colonial government in this portion of the flat fertile river valley, as part of New Netherland. The settlers recognized that these bottomlands had been cultivated for maize by the Mohawk for centuries.

Seward Park is a public park and playground in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, north of East Broadway, east of Essex Street. It is 3.046 acres (12,330 m2) in size and is the first municipally built playground in the United States.The park is named for William Henry Seward, a United States Senator from New York who served from 1849–1861 and later went on to be Secretary of State in the Lincoln administration. The park was built on a condemned piece of property purchased in 1897. New York City lacked the funds to do anything with it, so The Outdoor Recreation League (ORL),[3] a playground and recreation advocacy group that built playgrounds in the undeveloped parks using temporary facilities and equipment, built the park[4] as the first permanent, municipally built playground in the United States. Opened on October 17, 1903, it was built with cinder surfacing, fences, a recreation pavilion, and children's play and gymnastic equipment. A large running track encircled the play area and children's garden. The park became a model for future playground architecture. The Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library was built in the southeastern part of the park. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Park was reconstructed. A piece of land was returned to the City.[6] The Schiff Fountain, donated by Jacob H. Schiff, was moved from a nearby park and placed in Seward Park. Once again, in 1999, Seward received a much needed renovation. Some of the original 1903 plans were restored.
- has public housing estate http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190114/00180_019.html


The West Village is a neighborhood in the western section of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. Beginning in the early 1980s, residential development spread in the Far West Village between West Street and Hudson Street, from West 14th Street to West Houston Street, resulting in the area being given its own name.The West Village historically was known as an important landmark on the map of American bohemian culture in the early and mid-twentieth century. 
- https://abc7ny.com/technology/google-announces-billion-dollar-expansion-in-nyc/4914968/

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. Since the late 1990s, Williamsburg has undergone gentrification characterized by a contemporary art scene, hipster culture, and vibrant nightlife that has projected its image internationally as a "Little Berlin".[5] During the early 2000s, the neighborhood became a center for indie rock and electroclash.[6] Numerous ethnic groups still inhabit enclaves within the neighborhood, including Italians, Jews, Hispanics, Poles, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans.
- In 1638, the Dutch West India Company purchased the area's land from the Lenape Native Americans who occupied the area. In 1661, the company chartered the Town of Boswijck, including land that would later become Williamsburg. After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town's name was anglicized to Bushwick. During colonial times, villagers called the area "Bushwick Shore". This name lasted for about 140 years. Bushwick Shore was cut off from the other villages in Bushwick by Bushwick Creek to the north and by Cripplebush, a region of thick, boggy shrub land which extended from Wallabout Creek to Newtown Creek, to the south and east. Bushwick residents called Bushwick Shore "the Strand".
- Williamsburg is inhabited by tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews of various groups, and contains the headquarters of one faction of the Satmar Hasidic group. Williamsburg's Satmar population numbers about 73,000. Hasidic Jews first moved to the neighborhood in the years prior to World War II, along with many other religious and non-religious Jews who sought to escape the difficult living conditions on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the area received a large concentration of Holocaust survivors, many of whom were Hasidic Jews from rural areas of Hungary and Romania.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/nyregion/measles-vaccination-williamsburg.html For months, New York City officials have been fighting a measles outbreak in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn, knowing that the solution — the measles vaccine — was not reaching its target audience. They tried education and outreach, working with rabbis and distributing thousands of fliers to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. They also tried harsher measures, like a ban on unvaccinated students from going to school. But with measles cases still on the rise and an anti-vaccination movement spreading, city health officials on Tuesday took a more drastic step to stem one of the largest measles outbreaks in decades. Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency that would require unvaccinated individuals living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to receive the measles vaccine. The mayor said the city would issue violations and possibly fines of $1,000 for those who did not comply.

tax
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150726/00180_035.html 美國紐約市長白思豪早前建議，向售價一百七十五萬美元（逾一千三百六十萬港元）或以上的房屋，加徵最少百分之一的「豪宅銷售稅」，預料可為政府庫房帶來多達十五億六千萬港元進帳，足以資助維護或興建三萬七千個政府補助房屋單位。然而有民眾認為，紐約市稅項已太多太高，受苦的終究是普羅大眾。擁有自己的房屋，是華人實現「美國夢」的其中一個重要組成部分。對於白思豪的建議，當地許多華裔民眾都不以為然。紐約中華總商會董事長于金山認為，不應再加徵豪宅稅，因為有錢人可把加徵的稅款轉嫁給消費者，到頭來還是普通民眾受苦。他續稱，紐約市政府不該加稅，反而應減低當地目前的房地產稅，以鼓勵業主降低租金，才能真正幫助中下階層人士。在紐約華埠擁有物業的李先生表示，他的房屋沒那麽值錢，但不贊成加徵新稅，認為此舉會對部分業主不公平。其弟亦反對加徵豪宅稅，擔心會造成惡性循環，認為政府應該另尋方法開拓財源。

Public housing
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161006/00180_026.html美國紐約市房屋局近日修改申請公屋或可負擔住房的規定，以往很多不符合申請條件的民眾，在新規定下將可更容易獲得分配公屋。這是市長白思豪致力實現其十年房屋發展計劃的一部分，目標是維持十二萬個公屋單位，以及新增八萬個可負擔住房。

 world trade centre
- 3 World Trade Center (also known as 175 Greenwich Street) is a skyscraper constructed as part of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The tower is located on the east side of Greenwich Street, on the eastern side of the World Trade Center site. The current 3 World Trade Center is the second building at the site to bear this name. The original building was the Marriott World Trade Center, a hotel located in the southwest corner of the World Trade Center complex. The hotel was a 22-story steel-framed structure with 825 rooms. It had a roof height of 242 feet (74 m). Construction began in 1979 and it opened in July 1981 as the Vista International Hotel. The entire World Trade Center complex was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. Construction originally began in 2010, but was delayed until 2014 because of a lack of an anchor tenant. The building's concrete core was topped out to maximum height in August 2016, with the perimeter steel structure following on October 6, 2016. The building opened on June 11, 2018. The building was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and is managed by Silverstein Properties through a ground leasewith the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who owns the land. It is 1,079 ft (329 m) high, with 80 stories.

city parks
- Bronx Park, laid out on 718 acres (2.91 km2) along the Bronx River in the Bronx, New York City, is the home of the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.  The land for Bronx Park was acquired with funds authorized by the 1884 New Parks Act. The original 640 acres (2.6 km2) were acquired in 1888-1889. The northernmost 250 acres (1.0 km2) were allocated in 1891 to the New York Botanical Society. Another 250 acres (1.0 km2) was allocated in 1898 to the New York Zoological Society. An additional 66 acres (270,000 m2) were acquired in 1906, at the southeast end of the park; this area is now known as Ranaqua, and is where the Parks headquarters is located.


糧食券
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160717/00180_033.html美國紐約州長科莫日前宣布，本月起提高糧食券申請者的收入上限，三口之家由原來月入不多於二千一百七十七美元（約一萬七千港元），提高至二千五百一十二美元（約一萬九千港元），令紐約州申請糧食券的人數增加七十五萬人。有當地受訪華人認為，這對納稅人不公平。


Education
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161009/00180_023.html美國紐約市長白思豪早前宣布，由十月開始的新學年，豁免所有低收入家庭學生，加入紐約市立大學系統（CUNY）的六十五美元（約五百港元）申請費，估計新政策令近四萬名學生受惠。不過有受訪學生質疑，此舉對清貧學生的幫助不大。
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170411/PDF/b14_screen.pdf 美學校創沉浸式中文教育
- 综合《纽约时报》、《纽约邮报》、美国CBS网和《世界日报》报道：美国纽约市长白思豪2日宣布高中入学改革方案，将逐步取消“特殊高中入学考试”（SHSAT），以实现学生“多元化”。一旦通过，将对亚裔社区产生巨大影响。反对者认为，此举将拉低特殊高中整体学生水平，对众多努力学习的亚裔学生十分不公平。亚裔维权大联盟4日表示，5日与9日将于市议会举办两场示威游行，让政府听到民众的反对声音。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180606/PDF/a23_screen.pdf
- 美國紐約市長白思豪近日有意廢除市內精英高中的入學試SHSAT，改為收取每間學校成績最佳的百分之七學生，助少數族裔窮學生入讀頂尖學府；此舉儼如對「虎媽」的一記重擊，不少成績優異的亞裔學生及家長均向東網大呼不公，不忿勤奮學生反遭抹殺。面對洶湧群情，州眾議會早前暫時擱置法案。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180625/00180_004.html
ball
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170104/00180_034.html 美國紐約上周四晚舉行國際元媛舞會（International Debutante Ball），來自世界各地的四十六位名門貴冑淑女一同出席，包括加拿大人、英國人及美國人等，亦不乏華裔臉孔。出席宴會的少女都經過悉心打扮，並在場上與舞伴翩翩起舞，除了展示高貴典雅的一面外，更希望留下青春最美時刻。


A ticker tape parade is a parade event held in a built-up urban setting, allowing large amounts of shredded paper (originally actual ticker tape, but now mostly confetti) to be thrown from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a celebratory effect by the snowstorm-like flurry. The concept originates from and is most usually associated with the United States, especially with New York City. Outside the United States, ticker tape is often associated with the 1978 FIFA World Cup held in Argentina. The term originated in New York City after a spontaneous celebration held on October 28, 1886, during the dedication of the Statue of Liberty and is still most closely associated with New York City. The term ticker tape originally referred to the use of the paper output of ticker tape machines, which were remotely driven devices used in brokerages to provide updated stock market quotes. The term ticker came from the sound made by the machine as it printed. In New York City, ticker tape parades are reserved for special occasions. Soon after the first such parade in 1886, city officials realized the utility of such events and began to hold them on triumphal occasions.



asians
- 亞美聯盟（Asian American Federation）於周四發表報告，概括紐約亞裔人口結構於二○○○年至一六年間的變化，發現當地的亞裔貧窮人口於這段期間大幅增加，比最初的十七萬人增加四成四，其中華裔佔百分之二十一點九，比率在各亞裔族群中排第四。報告亦提及在亞裔總人口當中，百分之六十七的學歷水平在高中以下；若單以貧窮人口計算，多達百分之六十三的亞裔人英語能力不足，因此亞裔窮人大多只能從事餐飲、建築、美容等對英語水平要求較低的工種。亞美聯盟建議加強對亞裔的教育及社福支援。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180623/00180_021.html

China
- real estate 
  • http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2094618/china-construction-offshoot-launches-first-foray-residential Strategic Capital, the investment arm of China Construction America, which already has a national portfolio worth in excess of US$1 billion, has announced a US$140 million equity investment in a residential development in the Hudson Square neighbourhood of Manhattan. It will be working with two New York partners, Cape Advisors and Forum Absolute Capital Partners.Both Chinese-owned operations’ ultimate parent is the state giant China State Construction & Engineering Company, considered the largest builder in the mainland. The latest Manhattan project is being built by Plaza Construction, an affiliate of Strategic Capital, which expects to break ground and start building early next month, with the first sales slated for Spring 2018.
  • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170824/00178_007.html美國紐約著名地標廣場酒店（Plaza Hotel）的印度持有者，據報已聘請經紀安排出售酒店，交易金額或超過五億美元（約卅九億港元）。消息指，有意購買酒店的機構或人士，包括上海一個市政府投資基金。
- di from china
  • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-08/22/content_26551268.htm In a bid to keep its planned Central Park Tower afloat, Extell Development Coagreed to a deal that might one day force it to part with the luxury condo project. A joint venture with China's SMI USA to build the $3 billion skyscraper onManhattan's Billionaires' Row comes with a deadline: If a construction loan isn'tobtained by May 24, SMI can require Extell to buy out its stake in the partnership -about $300 million - with interest. And if Extell fails to do that, SMI can push thedeveloper to sell the entire project, according to documents filed on the Tel AvivStock Exchange, where Extell sells debt to investors.
- herbal tea
  • 首個海外涼茶博物館19日在美國紐約正式開館，這是190年歷史的王老吉涼茶以「中國符號」的形象在國際市場中傳遞「中國涼茶文化」和「中國健康哲學」。按計劃，涼茶博物館未來將開遍全球56個城市。首個海外涼茶博物館以現代化外形與具有傳統中國特色的內景融合建造而成。館內展區以多媒體形式呈現出王老吉190年來的傳奇故事與輝煌成就。傳統文化博物館與時尚涼茶舖在這裏完美相結合，不僅有豐富的文字史料，還有實物展示，全方位展示涼茶文化，視覺、味覺全方位體驗，令人充分感受中國涼茶文化的創新和獨特魅力。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181120/PDF/a20_screen.pdf
- music
  • 由美国亚洲文化中心和美国亚文交响乐团主办的“文化中国─美国亚文交响乐团2017金秋音乐会”，于当地时间15日晚在美国纽约林肯中心精彩上演。　联合国副秘书长刘振民、中国驻纽约总领事章启月、中国常驻联合国副代表吴海涛、总领馆副总领事赵宇敏、张美芳和文化参贊李立言以及亚洲文化传媒集团总裁蒋天龙等到场观赏了音乐会。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170918/PDF/a24_screen.pdf
  • china now music festival china daily 29oct18


chinese
- association

  • 中华公所hoisted prc flag when caiyingwen visited us singtao 21aug18
- chinatown
  • 唐人街的大多數先民來自廣東。在我常被領去的粵菜館裏，老闆用最正宗的蝦餃和叉燒招呼着老僱主，他能在國語、廣東話、上海話和英文間自如切換，一面一個「入邊請」，一面又笑着對我們道：「徐太太，儂來啦，裏向坐！」　　有些諷刺的是，在唐人街，一個老上海背景暗含着更高的身份肯定，而新的上海移民則為人趨避。外婆與其老搭子們為保有一口純正的老上海話「與有榮焉」，可在聊及招阿姨的標準上，卻又是一致的「不要上海人」。　廣東的舊時風采與上海一樣在褪去。我的兩位姨媽如今都六十多了，她們在香港出生，紐約成長，與白人一同工作，只有問詢母親時，還聽得到那一口一個的「喺度做乜」、「食咗飯未」，而她們的女兒們，更早已是連中文都不識的「香蕉人」了。移民到了第三代，注定還是要在社會的主流中同化的。從粵菜館出門，不遠就可以看到孔子大廈和林則徐的銅像，這一帶是唐人街的核心，原名東百老匯（East Broadway），現在有了個有趣的昵稱：小福州—永喜大廈下面可以看到「福州會計師樓」、遠處可以看到「美國福建聯誼會」、「美國長樂同鄉會」。福州人是近二三十年的「新貴」，滿街的福州小吃、長樂同鄉會、招聘廣告上的福州俚語，無不彰顯著那一遙遠東南小城的熱切與野心。在我所認識為數不多的紐約華人中，福州人有好幾位，他們有的靠親屬關係，有的偷渡而來，有的靠與白人聯姻等等不同的方式留下了。雖然多半起步艱辛，但他們注重同鄉幫襯，工作努力踏實，據說如今在曼哈頓的唐人街，福州人佔到六成。溫州的情況與福州很相似，山多地少，東南海港，伴隨着上世紀八、九十年代的移民潮。在紐約，溫州幫的聚集地在法拉盛（Flushing），那是皇后區的唐人街，外公過去居住的地方。我對溫州人存有極大的好感與好奇，與曾經的寧紹商幫相比，溫州人的宗族紐帶更強，更講信義，也更能吃苦。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181006/PDF/b2_screen.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160201/00178_005.html 曾經有「小台北」之稱的美國紐約法拉盛區，以往是來自台灣和大陸南方的移民為主，惟近年不少來自大陸北方的移民湧入，這個亞洲以外的最大華人社區逐漸改變。不過有移民人士認為，若滿足於法拉盛的「中國」生活，就不能真正融入美國。據了解，北方人近年收入增加，為更高的生活水平，故愈來愈多人移民美國，而法拉盛就是個開始的好地方。來自山東的耿蕾（音譯）表示，中國的環境、空氣質量及教育都不太好，所以「中國人富裕起來以後就想把孩子送到國外上學」。有關注華人移民群體的學者指，雖然目前未知當地中國北方人的具體人數，但已了解到大部分人為專業人士、小企業主以及政府官員，目的是來尋找原居地缺乏的經濟機會和穩定。
- 在公園免費指導長者健身、義工組織「我們愛紐約」的健體養生班導師蓮藝表示，場地一直是困擾她們的問題。由於組織缺乏經費，沒有會址，舉辦健身活動只能選擇到市立公園，惟下雨天或冬季便會面臨巨大不便。參與健身的楊女士及梁女士，盛讚健身班的成效，亦有參加的美國老人認為，健身班確實有助健康，希望可以繼續舉辦。幸而社區內有熱心人士，向長者們伸出援助之手。「廣州匯聚中心」始創人陳恩忠表示，中心自十一月起，在位於布魯克林新卓越大道的會址提供免費場地，讓健身班繼續舉辦http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171105/00180_032.html- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170501/00180_033.html美國紐約近日櫻花盛放，華埠櫻花節上周六在曼哈頓登場。雖然當日清晨一場狂風雷暴，把綻開的櫻花吹掃得七零八落，但仍無阻數以千計的遊人，來到華埠地標孔子大廈一帶參加賞花園遊會。而布魯克林植物園的櫻花，亦吸引一班年輕人打扮得花枝招展，前來爭妍鬥麗。華埠櫻花節的園遊會由孔子大廈董事局、紐約中華總商會等主辦，得到聯邦移民局、紐約市選舉局等支持。各機構人員向參加者宣揚政府在移民社區提供的服務，有健保公司提供各種健康資訊，亦有團體擺設美食攤位，表演精彩的歌舞節目。
- 「標會」是一種民間自發的集資活動，但參與者並不受法律保障，或造成金錢損失。美國紐約華人社區近年發生兩宗「倒會」案件，「會頭」將會員血汗錢夾帶私逃失蹤，在涉款最多的一宗，會眾損失逾二千萬美元（約一億五千萬港元）。華人律師孫瀾濤表示，非法集資本來就不受保障，而且就算會員持有收據、借條之類的憑證，一旦出事，能否取回金錢還需視乎會頭的經濟狀況，而且法律訴訟牽涉長時間和高昂費用，而在大部分情況下不能取回損失。美國亞裔社團總會會長陳善莊亦呼籲，民眾在參加「標會」活動之前要三思，以免得不償失。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180107/00180_022.html- property

  • http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2109857/flushing-new-york-draws-mainland-buyers-asian-inspired-condo Property developers are focusing on a small neighbourhood in Queens, New York, erecting large glassy condominium complexes, not unlike those in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, to tap the area’s rapidly expanding Chinese population.
- people
  • 紐約華埠社區活躍人士陳家齡表示，共和黨將這批無辜人士作為籌碼，這些在孩童時代就生活在美國的人對社會沒有危害，且已融入主流，他們對美國社會的認知比自己的母國還多，讓他們留在美國對大家都有利。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180122/00180_010.html
  • 今年四十一歲的劉煒輔佐沃倫多年，二○一二年曾為沃倫競選聯邦議員，去年又助沃倫成功連任。沃倫在周三的聲明中說，自她競選公職的第一天起，劉煒就和她在一起，劉煒相信動員基層民眾的重要性，這正是她將要做的。劉煒將負責沃倫參選總統的所有工作，包括組織、動員和招聘。劉煒出生紐約，父母在上世紀七十年代從中國移居美國後定居皇后區。一九九八年，他看到報章上招聘廣告，開始為時任聯邦參議員克里的辦公室擔任實習生，從此展開其政治生涯。他曾參與克里○四年的總統競選，以及○八年希拉莉的總統競選工作；也曾為麻省聯邦眾議員桑格斯（Niki Tsongas）等多位民主黨人工作。劉煒在麻省政治圈內外深受尊敬，以擅於組織競選活動聞名http://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/detail/1961161-%E5%9C%8B%E9%9A%9B-%E8%8F%AF%E4%BA%BA%E7%A7%BB%E6%B0%91%E5%BE%8C%E8%A3%94%E4%BB%BB%E6%B2%83%E5%80%AB%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E7%AB%B6%E9%81%B8%E7%B6%93%E7%90%86
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  • 中國農曆新年臨近，美國紐約帝國大廈亦推出《歡樂春節》豬年生肖櫥窗展，中國駐紐約總領事黃屏現身主持亮燈。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190203/00180_028.html
  • 美國紐約唐人街周日（17日）舉行農曆新年巡遊，以慶祝豬年來臨。有人擊鼓助興，亦有舞龍舞獅。巡遊隊伍當中，不少表演者戴上粉紅色的豬面具及穿上中國傳統服飾應節。除了華人之外，巡遊吸引其他國籍人士觀看，紐約巿長白思豪等政界人物亦有現身捧場。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190219/00180_029.html
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  • 美國紐約長島一間中學的學生，近日被指演出帶有醜化華人形象的音樂劇，引起當地華裔學生家長及華人社區不滿。音樂劇上周六演出時，超過六十名華人在該校門外抗議。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190410/00178_020.html



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- 紐約市博物館最近增加了一個常設展覽廳，展示在過去四百年以來對紐約市有貢獻的七十名居民的事跡。博物館從首三百年的歷史中選出三十人，最近的一百年中則選出四十人，陳修女正是被博物館邀請成為被展覽的其中一人。陳修女本來就是香港人。即使她到了美國讀書和發展，也曾回港四年從事戲劇工作，近年亦兩度在港導演舞台劇。她曾建立兩個劇團--曾經是北美洲最大的華人劇團的四海劇團和她任職藝術總監二十年至兩年前退休的長江劇團。她又為紐約州重犯監獄教授戲劇和國語十多年，甚至為一名坐了十多年冤獄的犯人翻案，對當地貢獻良多。還有，她亦是一名畫家，更曾獲獎。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/01/27/a25-0127.pdf
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