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Broad Channel (other)
Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Broad Channel may also refer to: * Broad Channel station The Broad Channel station is a metro station, station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the Broad Channel, Queens, neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough (New York City), borough of Qu ..., a subway station * "Broad Channel" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' episode) See also * * Broad River (other) * Channel (other) * Broad (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Broad Channel
Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay. The neighborhood stands on Big Egg Marsh, an area of fill approximately 20 blocks long and 4 blocks wide at the south end of Rulers Bar Hassock. The community is an inholding within the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. National Park Service as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. The area comprises several artificial canals separating dead-end residential blocks. It is connected to the rest of Queens by road and subway bridges. Broad Channel is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11693. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 100th Precinct. History Early settlement Prior to European settlement, the Jameco and Canarsie bands of Lenape Native Americans frequented this a ...
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Broad Channel Station
The Broad Channel station is a metro station, station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the Broad Channel, Queens, neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough (New York City), borough of Queens. It is served by the A (New York City Subway service), A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times, the latter of which originates and terminates here except in the summertime on weekends during the day. Broad Channel originally opened in 1880 as a Long Island Railroad station. The LIRR discontinued service in 1950 after a fire on the trestle across Jamaica Bay, to the station's north. The station reopened June 28, 1956, as a subway station. Broad Channel is the only subway station serving the island of Broad Channel, which is located in Jamaica Bay and only has about 3,000 residents. Thus it is the least-used in the subway . However, this station is the only transfer point for riders traveling between Brooklyn and Manhattan ( ...
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In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), '' The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by the criminal law of each r ...
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Broad River (other)
Broad River may refer to several rivers: Canada: *Broad River (Manitoba), a tributary of Hudson Bay Jamaica: * Broad River (Jamaica) United States: *Broad River (Carolinas), a tributary of the Congaree River in North and South Carolina *Broad River (Georgia) *Broad River (South Carolina), on the Atlantic coast See also *First Broad River *French Broad River *Second Broad River *Broad Creek (other) Broad Creek may refer to the following locations: Rivers *Broad Creek (Nanticoke River tributary), a stream in Sussex County, Delaware *Broad Creek (Bogue Sound), North Carolina, US *Broad Creek (South Australia), flows into Barker Inlet, South Au ...
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Channel (other)
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. * Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia. Europe * Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy * Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel * English Channel, called simply "The Channel", the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France North America * Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, United States * Channel Lake, Illinois, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States * Channels State Forest, a state forest in Virginia, United States * Chann ...
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