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2. Think Big (store) - Wikipedia

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   The Think Big! product line grew to offer over 100 different larger-than-life objects. With the added success of catalog sales many franchise locations began to open across the country as the pop art style caught on through the 1980s. The unique creations have been featured in many films including Forrest Gump and Big both starring Tom Hanks.

3. Greenwich Village - Wikipedia

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   Greenwich Village, [ pron 1] or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh ...

4. Swatch - Wikipedia

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   Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...

5. Swatch, Blancpain seek 'hypewatch' mania with Fifty Fathoms ...

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   This time around it’s pairing Swatch's scuba diving watch with high-end, nearly 300-year-old luxury watchmaker Blancpain and its Fifty Fathoms watch. The Fifty Fathoms diving watch is ...

6. Strand Bookstore - Wikipedia

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   The bookstore had 70,000 books in its early years, which increased by the mid-1960s to 500,000. By the 1990s it had 2.5 million books, which necessitated the renting of a warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. At that time, the oldest book for sale in the Strand was an edition of Magna Moralia, which was priced at $4,500.

7. List of New York City newspapers and magazines - Wikipedia

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   The Chief (public service weekly) City & State (public service bi-weekly) Columbia Daily Spectator (weekly) Crain's New York Business (weekly) Der Blatt (Yiddish-language weekly) Der Yid (Yiddish-language weekly) Duo Wei Times (Chinese-language) El Diario La Prensa (Spanish-language daily) Empire State News (daily)