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8 unusual facts about North Shore


North Shore-LIJ Health System

Executive Vice President Lawrence G. Smith, MD, MACP, is North Shore-LIJ's physician-in-chief, the health system's senior physician on all clinical issues.

Michael J. Dowling has been the president and chief executive officer of North Shore-LIJ since January 2002.

North Shore, Blackpool

North Shore is the northern coastal area of Blackpool on the Fylde coast in the county of Lancashire, England which has a large local community.

North Shore, Staten Island

It boasts the distinction of electing the first African American as its representative when it voted Debi Rose (D) into the New York City Council in November 2009.

Frederick Douglass spoke at the Fountain Hotel; Anna Leonowens of "The King and I" fame, owned a school at the corner of Richmond Terrace and Tompkins Court; Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, railway tycoon and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born in the area in 1797.

Historic buildings such as the first YMCA circa 1869; Tompkins Department Store circa 1880; The DeGroot House circa 1810; the Captain Nevielle House circa 1750; and the Greek Revival buildings at Sailor's Snug Harbor still stand along the street today.

Richmond University Medical Center and Staten Island University Hospital are Staten Island's largest employers - both of which service the North Shore.

The Cliffs Hotel

The Cliffs Hotel is in the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire, It is located on the Queen's Promenade in the North Shore area of the town.


2NSB

The station began broadcasting in May 1983 from East Chatswood, transmitting to Sydney's North Shore - an area that covers the Willoughby, Lane Cove, North Sydney, Mosman and Ku-ring-gai Council areas.

Auckland Marathon

The course begins in the seaside suburb of Devonport on the North Shore and travels through Takapuna and Northcote before crossing the Harbour Bridge and heading toward the finish at Victoria Park.

Berowra Waters, New South Wales

Berowra is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire and is part of the North Shore region.

Bill Finnegan

Finnegan and his company also produced or co-produced feature films including Support Your Local Gunfighter in 1971; North Shore in 1987; The Fabulous Baker Boys in 1989; White Palace in 1990; The Babe in 1992; CrissCross in 1992; Reality Bites, starring Ben Stiller, in 1994; and Ed, starring Matt LeBlanc, in 1996.

Campbells Bay Primary School

Campbells Bay Primary School is located between Campbells Bay and Castor Bay on Auckland's North Shore.

Car 553

Private commuter car service began on the Chicago and Northwestern in 1929, to serve wealthy commuters in the affluent North Shore suburbs in Chicagoland, such as Lake Forest, Highland Park and Winnetka, Illinois.

Chelsea Sugar Refinery

Before the opening of Auckland's Harbour Bridge in 1959, access to the North Shore from the City was restricted to transport by ferry.

Dana Brown

In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.

Demographics of Massachusetts

Most Bay Staters live within a 60 mile radius of the State House on Beacon Hill, often called Greater Boston: the City of Boston, neighboring cities and towns, the North Shore, South Shore, the northern, western, and southern suburbs, and most of southeastern and central Massachusetts.

EQT Plaza

During the summer of 2009, EQT Corporation moved its corporate headquarters and several business units from the 6-story building EQT had built and moved into in 2005, just across the Allegheny River in the North Shore neighborhood of the city.

Forrest Hill, New Zealand

Forrest Hill was under the local governance of the North Shore City Council, which amalgamated into Auckland Council on 1 November 2010.

French River, Minnesota

French River is an unincorporated community in Duluth Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Hovenden Walker

By that time the whole fleet was heading for the “North Shore,” or more accurately, the coast to the westward; ships in the van were already plunging on the edge of the breakers.

Aided by an easterly wind, the fleet was gradually closing on the “North Shore,” which in the vicinity of Île-aux-Oeufs (Egg Island) runs almost north and south.

James Hay Reed

A Pennsylvania state historical marker marks his birthplace near the Carnegie Science Center on Pittsburgh's North Shore.

Kristoffer Polaha

Kristoffer Caleb "Kris" Polaha (born February 18, 1977) is an American film and television actor best known for his roles as Jason Matthews in Fox TV series North Shore, Nathaniel "Baze" Bazile on the CW series Life Unexpected and Henry Butler on the The CW series Ringer.

Mountain bike

North Shore bikes are much like freeride bikes in their geometry and downhill bikes in their component makeup.

Palmers, Minnesota

Palmers is an unincorporated community in Duluth Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Regional Enterprise Tower

Upon ALCOA's 2001 relocation to a new headquarters building on Pittsburgh's North Shore near PNC Park, the old ALCOA building became a home to government entities, regional nonprofits and small start-up companies including the RIDC.

Robyn Read

In 1988, the Independent MP for the state seat of North Shore, Ted Mack, resigned from Parliament to avoid qualifying for a parliamentary pension.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, covering the North Shore and Northern Beaches of greater metropolitan Sydney, and the Broken Bay and Central Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia.

St Leo's Catholic College

St Leo's Catholic College is a secondary Catholic college in the North Shore suburb of Wahroonga in Sydney, Australia.

Stealing the Wave

It tells the story of surfers Mark Foo and Ken Bradshaw battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Hawaii, where some of the biggest waves in the world crash onto the shore.

Sydney University Australian National Football Club

By 1992, under the expert guidance of former Sydney Swans stalwart Rod Carter, the Students were ready to take a serious tilt at the flag, and after finishing as minor premiers they qualified to meet reigning premiers North Shore in the premiership decider.

Terrys Creek

Terrys Creek is transversed by the Main North and the Northern railway lines, Epping Road, and the M2 Hills Motorway.

Union Pacific North Line

Club membership was once limited to wealthy male commuters from affluent North Shore towns such as Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Highland Park, but is now open to any commuter on the line for a $900 annual membership fee.

West Ryde railway station

West Ryde railway station is a railway station in West Ryde on the North Shore, Northern & Western Line of the Sydney Trains network.

Westlake Girls High School

Westlake Girls High School is a state single-sex girls secondary school, located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.


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Anstruther

With a population of 3,500, it is the largest community on the Firth of Forth's north-shore coastline known as East Neuk.

Batiscan River

# Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan bridge, located at the height of the village (in front of the church), built at about 2.5 km upstream from the Highway 40 bridge, connecting Church Street (north shore) and the road of the village of Champlain (south shore).

Beihai

The name of the city means "north of the sea" in Chinese, signifying its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin, which has granted it historical importance as a port of international trade for Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

Big Sandy Lake

Originally located on the north shore of Big Sandy Lake, the village of Gaa-mitaawangaagamaag was the western terminus of the Northwest Trail that connected the Mississippi River with the Saint Louis River; Savanna Portage State Park that commemorates this historic trail is located on the northeastern shore.

Bodie Island

From the southern tip at Oregon Inlet, the peninsula stretches largely northwest out of North Carolina and into Virginia Beach, Virginia to join the mainland at Sandbridge near the north shore of Back Bay.

Cholpon-Ata

It is the administrative center of the Issyk Kul District of Issyk Kul Province; this district occupies most of the lake's north shore.

Commercialbank Plaza

Commercialbank Plaza is a 20-storey office building on the North Shore of Doha, Qatar, built as a new head office by the Commercial Bank of Qatar.

Committee for a Nuclear Free Island

However, with a former Staten Island Borough President, Robert Connor, lobbying within the Defense Department, and support from the local daily newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, as well as most elected officials, a site on Staten Island's north shore in the community of Stapleton was selected.

Doukhobor

In 1802, Tsar Alexander I encouraged resettlement of religious minorities to the so-called 'Milky Waters" (Molochnye Vody): the region of Molochnaya River (around Melitopol in today's southern Ukraine). This was motivated by the desire both to quickly populate the rich steppe lands on the north shore of the Black and Azov Seas, and to prevent the "heretics" from contaminating the population of the heartland with their ideas.

Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge

In 1941, Buddy Freeman constructed Freeman's Bass Lake Lodge on the north shore of Bass Lake, California about one mile west of the Pines Village.

Edward John

The son of Louis and Amelia John, he was born on July 8, 1949 in the Carrier village of Tache, along the north shore of Stuart Lake, about 60 km from Fort St. James, British Columbia.

Ganyushkino

Ganyushkino is in the west of Atyrau and close to the north shore of the Caspian Sea and the Kazakh-Russian border.

Gerry Ouellette

He then captained the Omaha Knights of the Central Hockey League (CHL) to the Adams Cup in 1970–71 and later joined the Campbellton Tigers of the North Shore New Brunswick senior league where he helped them win the Hardy Cup in 1972, 1977 and 1988; the last two wins as coach.

Highways in Ontario

In 1960, The Gap opened along the north shore of Lake Superior and completed the Trans-Canada Highway in the province.

Ira Eisenstein

He also served as religious leader of the Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, as well as the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore on Long Island, N.Y.

James Hagedorn

He is co-chairman of the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., an associate trustee of the North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, New York and chairman of the board for the Farms for City Kids Foundation, Inc. in Reading, Vermont.

Joseph T. Copeland

Upon his retirement from the bench, Copeland moved to West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, and in 1858 built the elaborate, Gothic Revival house that has always been referred to as "the castle" on the north shore of Orchard Lake.

Judge C. R. Magney State Park

It was named for Clarence R. Magney, a former mayor of Duluth and judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court, who was instrumental in getting 11 state parks and scenic waysides established along the North Shore.

Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad

In 1984, after Conrail decided to abandon the line, it became the short line North Shore Railroad, which runs as far as Salem Township in Luzerne County.

Lake Gleneida

NY 301 follows the north shore, ascending to its eastern terminus at NY 52 across from the Putnam County courthouse.

Leueen Willoughby

She was born in Vancouver, where her father was a representative of the Guinness family who helped supervise the construction of the Lions' Gate Bridge and extensive housing developments on Vancouver's North Shore.

Mariposa Township, Ontario

Such crops as were exported were teamed in the winter time south to a village (now deserted) called Port Hoover, on the north shore of Lake Scugog, thence across the lake to Caesarea, in Scugog, and south by road to Port Whitby, on Lake Ontario.

Massachusetts Route 127

North Shore Route 127 in Beverly was named as one of the 1,000 places to visit in Massachusetts by the Great Places in Massachusetts Commission.

Midnight Youth

Midnight Youth came together while at Rangitoto College in Auckland's North Shore with three members of the band playing together in New Zealand's high school Rockquest competition.

Milford, New Zealand

It is located on Auckland's North Shore on the northern side of Lake Pupuke.

Mountain biking in British Columbia

Vancouver Island, though not as well known for mountain biking as the North Shore, boasts a growing number of trails.

Nicholas Frederic Brady

The papal duke and duchess lived at 910 Fifth Avenue in New York City but also built a large Tudor Elizabethan mansion, Inisfada, on an estate on the North Shore of Long Island, New York that was completed by 1920 and known as "Inisfada" (Gaelic for "Long Island").

North Head

North Head, New Zealand is a volcanic cone headland in North Shore City, New Zealand, at the east end of the Waitemata Harbour.

North Shore Connector

Other businesses and attractions served include the Del Monte corporate headquarters (600 employees), Equitable Resources (450 employees), the SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel and other nearby hotels, Stage AE North Shore Amphitheater (Indoor rock club plus outdoor amphitheater with lawn for 5,500 visitors opening December 2010), the Andy Warhol Museum (90,000 visitors), and many other night spots and restaurants.

North Shore Hebrew Academy

North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA & NSHAHS) is a modern Orthodox yeshiva located in Great Neck, New York.

North Shore Hospital

North Shore Hospital is a large public hospital in Takapuna, North Shore City, serving the northern part of the Auckland area.

North Shore Lions

The North Shore Lions football organization is currently a member of the QBFL (Quebec Bantam Football League) operating in the West Island of Montreal, Canada.

Northern Busway

Northern Busway, Auckland, a busway in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand

Oswego Lake

With the relative scarcity of building easements, lakefront property remains prestigious, and a number of architecturally significant homes have been built along its shores, including the Carl C. Jantzen Estate, a Tudor-style estate on the National Register of Historic Places, built on an island on the lake's north shore by the founder of the Jantzen swimwear company in 1930.

Outarde

Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers

Peahi, Hawaii

On 4 January 2012, Greg Long, Ian Walsh, Kohl Christensen, Jeff Rowley, Dave Wassel, Shane Dorian, Mark Healey, Carlos Burle, Nate Fletcher, Eli Goldwyn, Goucho Gordon, Garrett McNamara, Kai Barger, North Shore locals and other of the best big wave surfers in the world invaded the Hawaiian Islands for a historic day of surfing.

Pinehill

Pinehill, New Zealand, a suburb of North Shore City in the Auckland region

Praia da Varzinha

Praia da Varzinha is a sandy beach located on the north shore of a lake called Lagoa dos Patos in the municipality of Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Punta Huete Airport

Located at the north shore of Lake Managua, the Punta Huete Airport could become in the near future a major airport in Nicaragua.

Quebec Route 203

From there, it proceeds north toward Saint-Chrysostome, from there it follows the north shore of the Rivière des Anglais until it connects with Route 138 in Très-Saint-Sacrement just northeast of the enclaved municipality of Howick.

Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

At the end of John Grisham's best selling novel The Pelican Brief the heroes escape to St. John: specifically, a small cottage in Maho Bay, along the North Shore of St. John.

Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700

700 was delivered on June 21, 1938, joining the 702 pulling overnight passenger trains between Spokane and Vancouver, Washington, along the north shore of the Columbia River, with the 701 providing backup and pulling freight.

Stand up paddle surfing

On August 8, 2007, on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City, California, the first stand up paddle board race was held.

Taynuilt

On the north shore of Loch Etive more extensive ruins remain of Ardchattan Priory, which was founded in 1230.

Terence H. Winkless

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Winkless's family moved to Chicago's North Shore and Terence went to the well-known New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, before continuing to the USC Cinema school and an Internship at the AFI Conservatory.

The Bridge in Curve

According to the National Gallery of Australia, Smith painted The Bridge in Curve, which is based on drawings made at Milsons Point on the North Shore, during an important phase of her career as an artist, when the importance of colour and the application of paint in small strokes gave her paintings a "brilliant vitality".

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 20

Highway 20, or North Shore Road is a road on St. John.