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    Districts Like many large cities, New York is divided and subdivided by its residents into various districts and quarters. The city's five boroughs are actually different counties -- each one with independent local governments and cultures. Each borough has individual neighborhoods -- some of only a few blocks in size -- that have personalities lauded in music and movies. Where you live, work and play in New York says something to New Yorkers about who you are. The five boroughs are: Brooklyn Queens

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    Newark, New Jersey Neighborhoods, Real Estate and Rental Markets Newark is the most populous city in the state of New Jersey, and one of the nation’s largest shipping hubs. It is the sixty-seventh most populous city in the country and has just over two hundred seventy-five thousand residents. This makes it the second most populated city in the New York metropolitan region, after New York City. It is the largest port on the Eastern Seaboard, location of several corporate headquarters, and several

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    Casinos In South Jersey

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    South Jersey is a truly unique area. There are different customs, distinctive sayings and words, and rarely can you not find something to do. Most people from outside this area know us for the Jersey Shore, booming with rides and local shops along the boardwalks. Along with multitudinous amounts of family activities the New Jersey shores are known for, there are of course the notorious casinos. Alongside the well known casinos of Atlantic City, New Jersey are also casinos around Philadelphia, even

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    As it approached Atlantic City, New Jersey it was as strong as a Category 2 Hurricane. At 8 o’clock pm. on October 29th, 2012, Superstorm Sandy hit Atlantic City with winds reaching 90 mph. As the storm went inland the winds started to decrease. The McCormick 3 storm swept across Pennsylvania parallel to the Mason-Dixon line (Halverson). As Hall and Sobel described in their study, “(Sandy) crossed New Jersey coastline at an angle closer to perpendicular than any previous

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    Introduction Bergen County is located in Northern New Jersey and is part of the New York Metropolitan area. The community of Bergen County in New Jersey is very large. In fact, it is the largest county in New Jersey. As of 2014, the population in Bergen County was 920,456 (“ACS Demographic”, n.d, p. 1). The governmental center of the county is the town of Hackensack where you can find many governmental services. Bergen County is considered to be populated by well-off individuals. As a matter of

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    Facility Planning Part 1 HCS/446 Facility Planning Part 1 Introduction This paper will discuss Virtua’s new ambulatory care clinic in Voorhees, N.J. It will features a surgical center for same-day surgery, cancer center, women’s imaging center, sleep center, diagnostic services and physician’s offices. This new state of the art master will have its unveiling in the spring of May 2012. This new ambulatory center is being built adjacent to a 463-million, eight story replacement hospital. Virtua Voorhees

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    Moreover he has been admitted to the bar in four states, which are New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. Pallone is a Democratic member and New Jersey’s Sixth District representative for the United States House of Representatives. Before Pallone become a member of the United States House of Representatives, he began his political career in his home city of Long Branch. He was first elected as a council member of the Long Branch City Council in 1982, and served total six years till 1988. A year

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    as Atlantic City N.J and Las Vegas N.V owe their success to gambling. Lotteries which are another form of Gambling are held on the state level and add millions of dollars into the state 's education programs

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    it has also contributed to a widening gap between the wealthiest and poorest members of society. This essay will examine two of the poorest populations in the United States, the Central Appalachian region of Kentucky and the population in Camden, New Jersey through the lens of two 20/20 segments reported by Diane Sawyer: “Waiting on the World to Change” and “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains”. This essay will examine the interplay between economic life and family structure in these regions

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    more and more serious. The increasing of greenhouse gas emission and pollutions lead to many environment problems related to climate change. The climate change impact our urban life in many aspects. As the biggest metropolitan area in US, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population about 19,831,858 by year 2012 (U.S. Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau, 2012) The population has been increased by 1.35% since 2010. The increase of population again increase

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