The East River
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“After college and a spell in London, [Aung San] Suu Kyi moved to New York in 1969 to work at the United Nations as staff for an advisory budget committee. She shared a 17th-floor sublet overlooking the East River with Ma Than E, who worked at the U.N. Secretariat.” —Ellen Nakashima, “Burma’s Defiant ‘Aunty’: Aung San Suu Sky keeps her nation’s hopes alive,” The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, October 20-26, 2003, p. 10. “A group of entrepreneurs is harnessing the perpetual motion of the ocean and turning it into a commodity in high demand: energy. Right now, machines of various shapes and sizes are being tested off shores from the North Sea to the Pacific—one may even be coming to the East River in New York State this fall—to see how they capture waves and tides and create marine energy.” —Heather Timmons, “Energy From the Restless Sea,” The New York Times, August 3, 2006. "The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the iconic middle-class housing complexes overlooking the East River in Manhattan, have decided to turn over the properties to creditors, officials said Monday morning. The decision by Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty comes four years after the $5.4 billion purchase of the complexes’ 110 buildings and 11,227 apartments in what was the most expensive real estate deal of its kind in American history." —Charles V. Bagli, "N.Y. Housing Complex Is Turned Over to Creditors," The New York Times, January 25, 2010. Links Related on eAlmanac
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