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Economy of Reading, Berkshire. Reading is an important commercial centre in Southern England and is often referred to as the commercial capital of the Thames Valley. The town hosts the headquarters of British companies and the UK offices of foreign multinationals, as well as being a major retail centre. [1]
The New York City Fire Department, also known as FDNY, is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and one of the oldest in the world. It provides fire protection, emergency medical services, technical rescue, and hazardous materials response to the five boroughs of New York City. Learn more about its history, organization, operations, and culture on Wikipedia.
Peter Filbert (1793 – May 28, 1864) was the first mayor of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. He was born in Reading in 1793. He was the son of Peter Filbert, who was Sheriff of Berks County from 1785 to 1787. Filbert was a lawyer, being admitted to practice at Reading, January 6, 1831. In 1840 he represented Berks County in the State ...
Reading's poverty rate in the five-year American Community Survey, published in 2018, showed that 35.4% of the city's residents were below the poverty line, or less "than the infamous 41.3% from 2011, when Reading was declared the poorest small city in the nation." Reading is located 38.8 miles (62.4 km) southwest of Allentown and 62.9 miles ...
Reading School District is a large, urban public school district that serves Reading, Pennsylvania, the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. The school district encompasses approximately 10 square miles (26 km 2 ). According to 2020 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 95,112. In 2009, the Reading School District ...
82003760 [1] Added to NRHP. April 13, 1982. City Hall, originally known as Boy's High School, is a historic city hall located Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1904, as the high school for boys, and converted to use as a city hall in 1929. It is a three-story, with basement, granite and gray brick building in the Beaux Arts ...
Reading, Pennsylvania. Thomas M. McMahon was the Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania from January 5, 2004 to January 2, 2012. McMahon was re-elected mayor in November 2007 for a second four-year term, with 5,847 votes, or 66.5%. [1] He served as mayor until January 2012. McMahon declined to run for a third term.
Founded as an English subscription library in 1763, Reading Public Library is one of the oldest, though not continuously operating, libraries in the United States. It wasn't until 1913 that the Main Library as it currently stands was built through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie. After a major fundraising campaign in 1989, the Main Library ...