That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

New York lay bleaching in the summer sun, and the morning fish hawk, flying in the heated air, saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan Island.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

Mrs. Lenygon's committee associates, announced formally yesterday by the AID in New York, include Mrs. Allen Lehman McCluskey and Stephen J. Jussel, both wellknown Manhattan decorators.

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

* 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel and the Long Island Railroad remained the primary means of access to most of central Long Island from Manhattan and New York City.

Since then the corporate headquarters have moved to New York City at 1 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

In 1958 Giacometti was asked to create a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank building in New York, which was beginning construction.

Co-op City was the first area in the Bronx, and the first in New York beyond Manhattan, to have its own cable television provider.

Bronx Local: While hundreds of songs about New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn can be found in Wikipedia's List of songs about New York City and also in Marc Ferris's 5-page, 15-column list of " Songs and Compositions Inspired by New York City " in The Encyclopedia of New York City ( 1995 ), only a handful refer to The Bronx.

New York City Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ( 1939 ) online edition

Whorf took a special interest in the Hopi language and started working with Ernest Naquayouma, a speaker of Hopi from Toreva village living in Manhattan, New York.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.

Battery Park City is a planned community at the southwestern tip of lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

" Great White Way " is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square.

* Columbus Avenue ( Manhattan ), a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, also known as Ninth Avenue

Hell at home in the East Village, Manhattan | East Village, 2008In 1996 Hell wrote a novel, Go Now, that was drawn largely from his own experience, and released a collection of short pieces ( poems, essays and drawings ) called Hot and Cold in 2001.

Midtown Direct, initiated in 1996, offers service directly into Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and has since caused a surge in real estate prices as the commute time to midtown dropped from about 50 minutes to 30, as the service eliminated the need for passengers to transfer to PATH trains at Hoboken.

In 1996, Christie's bought a town house on East 59th Street in Manhattan as a separate gallery where experts could show clients art in complete privacy to conduct private treaty sales.

Tummelson acquired the rights for Detroit / Cleveland Grand Prix, Manhattan, Modern Art, Streetcar, and The Settlers of Catan, which were published together in 1996.

He joined Chase Manhattan Corporation in 1996, where he rose to the rank of Asia-Pacific chairman.

A follow-up book by Kelling and Catherine Coles published by the Manhattan Institute in 1996 led to further interest in community policing methods, leading many municipalities to adopt quality-of-life and community policing as official policy.

" Based on his findings, in 1996 the Manhattan District Attorney opened a homicide investigation into Olson's death, but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges.

In July 1996, Chemical Bank of New York purchased Chase Manhattan Bank.

In 1995 First, along with visual artist Patricia Smith created an opera, < i > The Manhattan Book of the Dead < i >, which was presented at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club's Annex Theater in 1995 and The Washaus in Potsdam, Germany in 1996.

Some insist the doctrine was invented by Dr. Marvin Olasky, who went on to memorialize it in his books Renewing American Compassion ( 1996 ) and Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America ( 2000 ), and Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute.

Prada won another award from the CFDA, in 1995 as a " designer of the year " 1996 witnessed the opening of the 18, 000 ft² Prada boutique in Manhattan, New York, the largest in the chain at the time.

* 1996: Live at the Manhattan Jazz Club ( GAM )

Audrey Munson ( June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996 ) was an American artist's model and film actress, known variously as " Miss Manhattan ," " the Exposition Girl ," and " American Venus.

From 1981-1990, he was a fellow with the conservative Manhattan Institute where he wrote Losing Ground, which heavily influenced the welfare reform debate in 1996, and In Pursuit.

When FreshDirect was introduced to the West side of Manhattan the Fairway representatives claimed that Fedele was not a Founder of the Fairway on 132nd St .. Joe Fedele was the recipient of the NASDAQ's Enterprenuer of the Year Awards ' in the Northeast in 1996 for Fairway and 2003 for FreshDirect.

He began work in 1996, and the Manhattan Theatre Club presented a reading of the first act later that year.

Peter J. Tobin served as Chief Financial Officer of the Chase Manhattan Corporation from 1996 to 1997.

Stories conflict as to whether they met at a 1996 book signing or at a Manhattan, New York spa.

* Night Falls on Manhattan ( 1996 ) .... McGovern

Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub ( October 25, 1930 born in Staunton, Illinois – January 26, 1996 Manhattan ) was an American writer, and novelist.

In 2009, LeBow made a $ 10, 000 campaign contribution to Manhattan District Attorney candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder, whose law firm-Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman-had represented the Liggett Group in smoking and health litigation since 1996.

Also in 1996 he moved on to Manhattan Center Studios, New York, as a Producer / Engineer.

She sang five songs on their début album in 1996 while also performing jazz and folk material herself in Tramps club in Manhattan, accompanied only by a percussionist.

* New Realities 1996 Manhattan Neighborhood Network ( with Alan Steinfeld )