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  2. Demographics of New York City - Wikipedia

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    [54] [55] By 2013, the population of foreign-born individuals living in New York City had increased to 3.07 million, and as a percentage of total population, was the highest it had been in the past 100 years. [56] Throughout its history, New York City has been a principal port of entry for immigration to the United States.

  3. Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.

  4. One World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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    One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and Freedom Tower, [note 1] is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the

  5. Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

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    At age seven or eight, he built a robotic puppet theater and robotic game. He was involved with computers by age 12 (in 1960), when only a dozen computers existed in New York City, and built computing devices and statistical programs for the predecessor of Head Start. [5] [6] At 14, Kurzweil wrote a paper detailing his theory of the neocortex. [7]

  6. Economy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The youth unemployment rate was 18.5% in July 2009, the highest rate in that month since 1948. [192] The unemployment rate of young African Americans was 28.2% in May 2013. [193] The unemployment rate reached an all-time high of 14.7% in April 2020 before falling back to 11.1% in June 2020.

  7. New York City Subway map - Wikipedia

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    The New York City Subway map is an anomaly among subway maps around the world, in that it shows city streets, parks, and neighborhoods juxtaposed among curved subway lines, whereas other subway maps (like the London Underground map) do not show such aboveground features and show subway lines as straight and at 45- or 90-degree angles. [47]

  8. Cost of rent by state and county in the United States

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    33 New York. 34 North Carolina. 35 North Dakota. 36 Ohio. 37 Oklahoma. 38 Oregon. 39 Pennsylvania. ... No Data 1 bedroom rent by year by state Average cost of rent in ...

  9. Chelsea, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s [4] [5] or 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.