Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joshua D. Powe '98 describes the families of the students from his high school as "very influential." Graduates of the Dalton School, located on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, include the children of Diana Ross, John Lennon and Robert Redford. About 10 percent of each graduating class goes on to Harvard...
...credits his academic success to his participation in Bridge to Medicine, a program for high-school students interested in becoming doctors, sponsored by the City College of New York. He went to City College in uptown Manhattan every day after school until 5 p.m. to study chemistry, calculus and English...
...never been exposed to a world outside of South Bronx," Reynoso recalls. "Rarely did I go to downtown Manhattan where there were a lot of white people and a lot of wealthy people. There was a clear line of division between those people and where I lived...
...House That Ruthless Had Built for Him. Owner George Steinbrenner, who for years has been trashing the stadium's Bronx neighborhood while making eyes at New Jersey, is being massaged by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is backing a proposal for a billion-dollar SkyDome knockoff on Manhattan's West Side...
...took nearly two years for the hit rock musical Rent to get from workshop to Broadway, but its sassy, sexy downtown look will be available retail this week--a scant nine days after its Broadway opening night--when Bloomingdale's opens a Rent boutique in Manhattan...