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2. The El Dorado - Wikipedia

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   The El Dorado (also spelled the Eldorado) is a cooperative apartment building at 300 Central Park West, between 90th and 91st Streets adjacent to Central Park, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

3. New York City - Wikipedia

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   In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England). [35] James's elder brother, King Charles II, appointed the Duke as proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, when the Kingdom of England seized it from Dutch control.

4. Apartment - Wikipedia

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   A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English), flat (British English, Indian English, Canadian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...

5. Stoop (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   New York stoops may have been a simple carry-over from the Dutch practice of constructing elevated buildings. [ 2 ] It has been well documented that the stoop served the function of keeping people and their homes separated from horse manure, which would accumulate in the streets at high rates.

6. Hampshire House - Wikipedia

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   By late 1930, a contract for 3,770 short tons (3,370 long tons; 3,420 t) of structural steel had been awarded for the building's construction. [7] The developers field plans for Hampshire House in early 1931, [8] and the New York Title and Mortgage Company gave the builders a construction loan of $2.2 million in March 1931. [9]

7. List of tallest buildings in New York City - Wikipedia

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   New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...