Word: manhattanization
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Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky was murdered on Aug. 20, 1940. The month is famous for violent acts. In August 1914 Germany got World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August...
...centennial began to loom on the national calendar, New Jersey has reignited an old claim to the woman who has long been considered New York's leading citizen. After all, New Jerseyans argue, she is less than 600 yds. from their shore, but a good 1½ miles from Manhattan...
...CHIPS -- Pelted a model with these in a Manhattan restaurant, the New York Daily News reported--though a p.r. rep later denied the incident...
...over four decades built and ran American International Group, the global insurance giant, is as focused as ever. He still manages two AIG offshoots, Starr International and C.V. Starr, investment firms that control billions of dollars of AIG stock. He's a regular on the Manhattan dinner circuit, where society's glitterati greet him warmly. He works out daily with the same discipline that guided his long career. The only thing that's changed is the way the 80-year-old does his daily push-ups: using a "slow burn" strategy of fewer repetitions but a painstaking pace...
...smoothly. Last August, Ms. Brophy went to visit him in New York City, where he lives. Late one afternoon in his apartment, he handed her an envelope with a card and some cash, and walked out. For two hours, Ms. Brophy went on an elaborate scavenger hunt in lower Manhattan...