Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area,and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third-busiest in New York City,behind Times Square and Herald Square.
99 Ranch Market is an American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc.,which is based in Buena Park,California. 99 Ranch has 58 stores in the U.S.,primarily in California,with other stores in Nevada,Oregon,Washington,New Jersey,Texas,Maryland,Massachusetts,Arizona,and Virginia. The company also started offering shopping via its website in 2014. In February 2021,the company also launched their mobile app for grocery delivery.
Fry's Food and Drug is a chain of American supermarkets that has a major presence in the U.S. state of Arizona. Fry's also operates under the banner of Fry's Marketplace,a combination of groceries and general merchandise comparable to a Walmart Supercenter. Fry's is a division of Kroger,an American retail company based in Cincinnati,Ohio.
Hong Kong Supermarket is an Asian American supermarket chain started in the San Gabriel Valley region of Southern California. It operates mainly in the newer suburban overseas Chinese communities,particularly in the Los Angeles,Philadelphia,and New York City areas. Hong Kong Supermarket specializes mainly in imported Asian groceries. Many items are from Mainland China,Hong Kong,Macau,Japan,South Korea,Thailand,Taiwan,Vietnam,Indonesia,and the Philippines.
Shun Fat Supermarket is a Chinese Vietnamese American supermarket chain in the San Gabriel Valley region in California,Sacramento,California,San Pablo,California,Las Vegas,Nevada,Portland,Oregon and Garland,Texas.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA),originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums,is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation,education,science,and recreation. AZA is headquartered in Silver Spring,Maryland,and accredits zoos. There were 238 accredited facilities as of 2019,primarily in the US,and also a handful in eleven other countries.
Washington,D.C.'s Chinatown is a small,historic area of Downtown Washington,D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets,Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants,but fewer than 300 remained in 2017. The current neighborhood was the second in Washington to be called “Chinatown”since 1931. Originally,the first Chinatown was built in the Federal Triangle on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue some time after 1851,but was moved to the H Street area when a new federal building was built there. In 1986,a Chinese gate was built over H Street at 7th Street. By 1997,prominent landmarks such as the Capital One Arena,a sports and entertainment arena,had gentrified the area. The neighborhood is served by the Gallery Place station of the Washington Metro.
Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox,or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain,to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and was sold to The National Theatres Corporation,led by Charles Skouras,on November 20,1933,for $17,000,000.00. Eugene V. Klein later became CEO of National,and turned it into the conglomerate National General. Mann Theatres bought National General's theatres in 1973.
Mid City is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles,California.
Shoppers Food &Pharmacy,also known as Shoppers Food Warehouse,is a chain of 22 supermarkets located in the Baltimore and Washington,D.C.,metropolitan areas. Shoppers has fresh produce,Swift Angus beef,Smithfield natural pork,all-natural chicken,Dietz &Watson delis,fresh seafood,steamed shrimp,as well as hot food bars.
A destination sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes. A sectional center facility routes mail between local post offices and to and from network distribution centers (NDCs) and Surface Transfer Centers (STCs),which form the backbone of the network.
The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands,the Hawaiian Archipelago,Alaska in the Arctic,and several island-territories in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. The U.S. has many endemic species found nowhere else on Earth. With most of the North American continent,the U.S. lies in the Nearctic,Neotropic,and Oceanic faunistic realms,and shares a great deal of its flora and fauna with the rest of the American supercontinent.
The northern map turtle,also known as the common map turtle,is an aquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. It is endemic to North America.
Turtle farming is the practice of raising turtles and tortoises of various species commercially. Raised animals are sold for use as gourmet food,traditional medicine ingredients,or as pets. Some farms also sell young animals to other farms,either as breeding stock,or more commonly to be raised there to a larger size for subsequent resale.
Allandale,Austin,Texas is a neighborhood in North Central Austin,in the U.S. State of Texas known for its large lots,mature trees,and central location.
H Mart is an American supermarket chain of Asian supermarkets operated by the Hanahreum Group,headquartered in Lyndhurst,Bergen County,New Jersey. The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States,operated variously as H Mart,H Mart Northwest,and H Mart Colorado;two stores in the Pacific Northwest operate as G Mart. It also has stores in Canada and eight in the United Kingdom,including seven locations of Oseyo. H Mart is the largest U.S.-based grocery store chain that specializes in Asian-style products and caters to Asian-American shoppers.
The history of Koreans in Baltimore dates back to the mid-20th century. The Korean-American community in Baltimore began to grow in the 1960s and reached its peak between the 1970s and 1990s. The Korean population is anchored in central Baltimore,particularly the neighborhoods of Station North and Charles Village,a portion of which has an historic Koreatown. Since the 1990s,the Korean-American population has decreased due to suburbanization,with many Korean-Americans settling in nearby Howard County.
There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing,initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown,before evolving its own identity,surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown,and subsequently,in turn,spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst,Corona,and eastern Queens.
Waldron Faulkner (1898–1979) was an American architect in practice in New York City and Washington,D.C. from 1927 to 1968.
