000 volts) that have the capability of delivering electricity over long distances.2 These transmission lines supply the distribution substations – known as area substations – where the voltage is reduced to primary distribution levels of 27 kV for Brooklyn and Queens‚ 33 kV and 13 kV for Staten Island‚ and 13 kV for Manhattan‚ the Bronx‚ and Westchester County. From the area substations‚ high-voltage primary feeders distribute the power and feed a secondary system of low-voltage cables. In Figure 2-1
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first African-American that played in Major League Baseball sure there were the Negro leagues where only African-Americans could play. Jackie Robinson played in the Negro leagues for his first couple of years. Then came the Major Leagues team the Brooklyn Dodgers they were a average team in the league. There manager is the only reason Jackie played in the Major Leagues Branch Rickey wanted a new player in the League. So he decided to call up the manager
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Ernst Luly ART 1012 FMWA Agitprop! Assignment LABEL TEXT: Julius Block (American‚ born Germany‚ 1888-1966) The Lynching‚ 1932 Oil on Canvas Whitney Museum of American Art‚ New York According to the Brooklyn Museum’s website‚ Agitprop! is a combination of the terms agitate and propaganda. Based on my own observations‚ I was able to deduce the overall theme of Agitprop! as art that was used as a means of protest against various social and cultural issues. A wide range of issues is addressed
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struggles after moving from her home country of Puerto Rico to The United States. She lived a poor life in Santurce‚ Puerto Rico for 13 years before her mother decided to move Negi and her seven siblings to Brooklyn‚ New York in 1961‚ in hopes of a better life. When the family arrived in Brooklyn they did not know English making life hard for them. Santiago’s mother managed to find a job but it was not anything permanent and she was unable to gain economic stability which forced her to seek welfare
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Youth Youth of Color Initiative Runaway and Homeless Adolescent HealthCare Project Runaway and Homeless Adolescent HealthCare Project _________________ a community-based 501(C)(3) organization delivering services to children and families in Central Brooklyn since 1998 submits the following proposal to Advocates for Youth‚ Youth of Color Initiative for consideration. ________ is requesting $______ to assist our Runaway and Homeless HealthCare Support Project‚ and to enhance our Runaway and Homeless Youth
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Right Time: The Galvanization of Brooklyn During the Robinson Years Faculty speaker Dr. Demetrius Pearson talked about the shock or excitement of Brooklyn and its socio-cultural ways due to the acts and life of legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson. The researched that was introduced to the audience was mainly garnered from books‚ special collections‚ as well as interviews from people first-hand. To start off‚ the past setting that was the Borough of Brooklyn was a fairly diverse melting pot
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90’s. The story is about the family that invented first the sugar packet and then Sweet’N Low‚ capitalizing on Americans’ diet madness to build a company that by 1996 was producing 50 million packets of artificial sweetener a day at a factory in Brooklyn. In this book‚ the author (Richard Cohen) plays multiple roles of narrator‚ stage manager and chorus. The rest of the characters in the book are Benjamin Eisenstadts: the eldest in the family‚ whose inventiveness and drive made the family’s millions
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Jackie and branch Rickey’s meet in Rickey’s Brooklyn office where Jackie signs an agreement to join the Brooklyn dodgers and break major league baseball’s ban on players of color. Jackie marries Rachel isum in a ceremony performed by his close friend and mentor the reverend Karl downs. Jackie joins the Montreal royals‚ the dodgers’ minor-league team and leads them to the minor-league championship. Jackie plays his first game for the Brooklyn dodgers breaking the big-league color barrier and
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Ricans and Americans‚ but has an assortment of cultures. She identifies herself in this community as Puerto Rican but is exposed for the first time to two different types of Puerto Ricans. There are the Puerto Ricans who come from Puerto Rico‚ and the Brooklyn Puerto Ricans whose parents and grandparents come from Puerto Rico‚ but have never seen Puerto Rico. To this group Puerto Rico is a place for vacation but not to live‚ because of its primitive nature. Negi sees this and doesn’t understand how there
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and unconstitutional. After this lawsuit was approved through the court of appeals‚ Ratner began to sell tax bonds to help finance his pride and joy‚ the 18‚000 seat arena for the now Brooklyn Nets‚ previously known as the New Jersey Nets. From the side of the group fighting this arena‚ “Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn”‚ Daniel Goldstein‚ a spokesman was quoted‚ “The fight against the Atlantic Yards project is far from over”. The minute this was approved‚ The Barclays Center became a huge stand out
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