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26 relations: American Revolution, Blockhouse, Calvert Vaux, Central Park, Cleopatra's Needle (New York City), Fort Clinton (Central Park), Fort Fish, Frederick Dent Grant, Frederick Law Olmsted, Harlem Meer, Harlem River, Hudson River, Joseph Gardner Swift, Lasker Rink, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Nutter's Battery, Sandstone, Schist, The New York Sun, The New York Times, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812.
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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Blockhouse
In military science, a blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions.
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Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Cleopatra's Needle (New York City)
Cleopatra's Needle in New York City is one of three similar named Egyptian obelisks and was erected in Central Park (at, west of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) on 22 February 1881.
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Fort Clinton (Central Park)
Fort Clinton in New York City's Central Park was an 1814 stone-and-earthworks fortification on a rocky escarpment near the present line of 107th Street, slightly west of Fifth Avenue.
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Fort Fish
Fort Fish was an earthworks fortification in northern Manhattan in New York City, built in 1814.
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Frederick Dent Grant
Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.
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Harlem Meer
Harlem Meer ("meer" is Dutch for "lake") occupies the northeast corner of New York City's Central Park.
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Harlem River
The Harlem River is an tidal strait flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the New York mainland.
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Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.
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Joseph Gardner Swift
Joseph Gardner Swift (December 31, 1783 – July 22, 1865) was an American soldier who had the distinction of being the first graduate of the newly instituted United States Military Academy in West Point, New York; he would later serve as its fourth Superintendent, from 1812 to 1814, and Chief of Engineers of the United States Army from 1812 to 1818.
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Lasker Rink
Lasker Rink is located in the northern part of Central Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan, between 106th and 108th Streets.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in the City of New York, which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point which now constitutes the present-day Financial District.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on the border of the Upper West Side and Harlem.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called Parks Department and NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.
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Nutter's Battery
Nutter's Battery was an 1814 earth-and-wood fortification near Harlem Meer in present-day Central Park in New York City.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Schist
Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).
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The New York Sun
The New York Sun was an American daily newspaper published in Manhattan from 2002 to 2008.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhouse_No._1_(Central_Park)
