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Two men in New York have been charged with distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that allegedly caused the death of transgender activist Cecilia Gentili in February, prosecutors announced Monday.
Cecilia Gentili (January 31, 1972 – February 6, 2024) was an American advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers.. Born in Argentina, she moved to New York City.
The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms).
Cecilia (Refice opera) Cecilia. (Refice opera) Cecilia is a 1934 sacred opera by Licinio Refice to a libretto by Emidio Mucci. [ 1] At the premiere in Rome in February 1934 Claudia Muzio sung the role of Cecilia. The Act 3 aria "Grazie sorelle" has since been recorded by several sopranos including Renata Tebaldi in 1955, and Hera Hyesang Park ...
New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...
The Cloisters. / 40.8648°N 73.9319°W / 40.8648; -73.9319. The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated in Fort Tryon Park, specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens ...
February 12, 2010. The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980. Manhattan 's Chinatown[ a ] is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.