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unusual facts about New York – New Jersey Highlands



Alan Dinehart

Dinehart's first wife was the stage actress Louise Dyer (1895-1934), a native of Nassau County, New York.

Alexander Boarman

Boarman kept this position until he died in 1916, while he was visiting in Loon Lake in Franklin County in northern New York.

Ariel Levy

At New York magazine, where Levy was a contributing editor for 12 years, she wrote about John Waters, Stanley Bosworth, Donatella Versace, the writer George W. S. Trow, the feminist Andrea Dworkin, and the artists Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow.

Baseball Ontario

On June 4, 1838, a year before Abner Doubleday was recognized with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York, two teams from Oxford and Zorra townships met in Beachville, Ontario in what is now known as the first documented game in North American history.

Ben Baker

Ben Baker is an Australian photographer who has worked for clients such as The Sunday Times, New York, ESPN The Magazine, Time, Elle, and Fortune.

Bill Reilly

During Reilly's time at the helm of Primedia, the firm built a collection of more than 200 magazines that included American Baby, National Hog Farmer, Chicago and New York.

Bill Tilghman

A Democrat, Tilghman had been a delegate to his party's 1904 convention, which met in St. Louis, Missouri, to nominate New York Judge Alton B. Parker, a former law partner of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, to run against the successful Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.

Bradley M. Campbell

Bucco sought to register his concern about how the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act would limit development in the New Jersey Highlands, and dropped his block after Campbell met with Bucco, Senator Guy R. Gregg and the mayors of several municipalities in Morris County, with Bucco saying "All I wanted was my day in court".

Carl Edward Bailey

In 1936, mobster Lucky Luciano was arrested in Hot Springs and offered Attorney General Bailey a $50,000 bribe if Bailey would not extradite him to New York.

Fredonia, Kentucky

The name Fredonia was a popular one in America in the early 19th century after its use was popularized by Samuel L. Mitchill of New York, but local tradition holds that the Kentucky town was named for the daughter of town founder Harvey W. Bigham.

Israel Nash

The album was recorded during the summer of 2010 on a small farm located in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Jeremy Boissevain

Boissevain graduated for his PhD in 1962 at the London School of Economics and has subsequently taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Jigsaw Jones Mysteries

The Jigsaw Jones Mysteries is an American series of young children's detective fiction written by New York author James Preller.

Jonathan Pool

Pool worked at the universities of Chicago, New York (Stony Brook), Washington (Seattle), Stanford as well as in Mannheim, Paderborn, and Bielefeld in Germany.

Karl Gomes

Karl has won numerous awards at Cannes, Webby, One Show, New York Festivals, Asia Pacific Adfest, Abby and AAAI, including the 1st Indian Cyber Shortlist at Cannes 2006 for Timesjobs, the 1st Indian Webby award for a simple and intuitive multilingual portal for Life Insurance Corporation of India, the 1st Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes 2008 and India’s first Silver Pencil at the One Show Interactive 2009 for an Online campaign “highlighting what's important” for Luxor Highlighters.

Kate Flannery

The Lampshades was New York magazine's "LA Pick" for 2006 and was declared "Best Saturday Comedy Show of the Year" by LA Weekly.

Michael Tolan

Tolan had two marriages, both of which ended in divorce; at the time of his death, he was partnered with Donna Peck, with whom he lived in Ancram, New York.

Michelle Engelsman

Born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina, Engelsman moved her family back to Australia at the very age, before they decided to settle in upstate New York, when she was seven years old.

Moroccan Christmas

New York magazine writer Will Leitch criticized the episode, claiming the main story between Meredith and Michael seemed forced and did not work.

New York / N.Y.

Canadian electronic musician and performance artist Peaches references and sings a snippet of the song in the music video for her song "Show Stopper", which features Danish film actress Charlotte Munck.

New York Golden Gloves

Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News.

Oneonta Tigers

In 1966, the Red Sox shifted their franchise in the (current) New York - Penn League from Wellsville, New York to Oneonta.

Roti Island snake-necked turtle

They were named for Dr. William McCord, a veterinary and turtle expert from Hopewell Junction, New York.

That Certain Summer

Marilyn Beck of the New York Times called it "one of the finest pieces of drama you'll see this year on large or small screen." Judith Crist described it as "a giant step for television" in New York.

The Last Sitting

In 2008 Stern shot recreations of the images used by Vogue — with actress Lindsay Lohan as the model—for the February 25, 2008 issue of New York.

Todd Harrison

Harrison has appeared on Fox, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV and in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Worth, Fortune, Barron's, Dow Jones MarketWatch, New York and Canada's National Post, and contributed articles to various market-related publications.

York Township, Steuben County, Indiana

Two Powers brothers had scouted the area the year before, and now brought six families on a long journey from New York state.


see also

Pochuck

Pochuck Mountain, a ridge in the New York-New Jersey Highlands region of the Appalachian Mountains