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SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2016. Executive Director’s Letter Dear Bourbonnais Township Park District Residents: On November 3rd, 1986 the Bourbonnais Township Park District. Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area, with over 150,000 inhabitants as of 2010, is named. Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971. As of November 2016, it operates.

Industry. Coffee shop. Founded. March 3. Pike Place Market, Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington, U. S. Founder. Headquarters. Utah Avenue South, Seattle, Washington, U. S. Number of locations. Area served. Worldwide.

Key people. Products. Coffee beveragessmoothiesteabaked goodssandwiches. Revenue. US$1. 9.

US$3. 6 billion[2] (2. Watch Fun Mom Dinner Online (2017). US$2. 7. 6 billion (2. Total assets US$1. Total equity US$5.

Number of employees. Subsidiaries. Websitewww. Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1.

As of November 2. Starbucks is considered the main representative of "second wave coffee", initially distinguishing itself from other coffee- serving venues in the US by taste, quality, and customer experience while popularizing darkly roasted coffee.[4] Since the 2. Starbucks nowadays uses automated espresso machines for efficiency and safety reasons.[4][5]Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole- bean coffee, microground instant coffee known as VIA, espresso, caffe latte, full- and loose- leaf teas including Teavana tea products,[6] Evolution Fresh juices, Frappuccino beverages, La Boulangepastries, and snacks including items such as chips and crackers; some offerings (including their annual fall launch of the Pumpkin Spice Latte) are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Many stores sell pre- packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and drinkware including mugs and tumblers; select "Starbucks Evenings" locations offer beer, wine, and appetizers.[7] Starbucks- brand coffee, ice cream, and bottled cold coffee drinks are also sold at grocery stores. Starbucks first became profitable in Seattle in the early 1.

Despite an initial economic downturn with its expansion into the Midwest and British Columbia in the late 1. California in the early 1. The first Starbucks location outside North America opened in Tokyo in 1. The company opened an average of two new locations daily between 1.

On December 1, 2. Howard Schultz announced he would resign as CEO effective in April 2. Kevin Johnson. Johnson assumed the role of CEO on April 3, 2.

History. Founding. The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 3. University of San Francisco: [1. English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker were inspired to sell high- quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans.[1. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby- Dick: Starbuck, after considering "Cargo House" and "Pequod".[1.

Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with "st" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with "st". Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named "Starbo", which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character "Starbuck". Bowker said, "Moby- Dick didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense."[1.

The Starbucks store at 1. Pike Place. This is the second location of the original Starbucks, which was at 2. Western Avenue from 1. The first Starbucks store was located in Seattle at 2. Western Avenue from 1. This cafe was later moved to 1.

Pike Place; never to be relocated again.[1. During this time, the company only sold roasted whole coffee beans and did not yet brew coffee to sell.[2. The only brewed coffee served in the store were free samples.

During their first year of operation, they purchased green coffee beans from Peet's, then began buying directly from growers. Sale and expansion.

In 1. 98. 4, the original owners of Starbucks, led by Jerry Baldwin, purchased Peet's.[2. During the 1. 98. US were falling, but sales of specialty coffee increased, forming 1.

By 1. 98. 6, the company operated six stores in Seattle[2. In 1. 98. 7, the original owners sold the Starbucks chain to former manager[2. Howard Schultz, who rebranded his Il Giornale coffee outlets as Starbucks and quickly began to expand. In the same year, Starbucks opened its first locations outside Seattle at Waterfront Station in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Chicago, Illinois.[2. By 1. 98. 9, 4. 6 stores existed across the Northwest and Midwest and annually, Starbucks was roasting over 2,0.

At the time of its initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market in June 1. Starbucks had 1. 40 outlets, with a revenue of US$7. US$1. 3 million in 1. The company's market value was US$2. The 1. 2% portion of the company that was sold raised around US$2. By September 1. 99. Starbucks' share price had risen by 7.

In July 2. 01. 3, over 1. Starbucks app.[2. The company once again utilized the mobile platform when it launched the "Tweet- a- Coffee" promotion in October 2. On this occasion, the promotion also involved Twitter and customers were able to purchase a US$5 gift card for a friend by entering both "@tweetacoffee" and the friend's handle in a tweet. Research firm Keyhole monitored the progress of the campaign and a December 6, 2. US$1. 80,0. 00 of purchases were made to date.[2. Expansion to new markets and products.

The first Starbucks location outside North America opened in Tokyo, Japan, in 1. Starbucks entered the U. K. market in 1. 99. USD acquisition of the then 5. UK- based Seattle Coffee Company, re- branding all the stores as Starbucks. In September 2. 00. Starbucks opened its first store in Latin America, at Mexico City.

Currently, there are over 5. Mexico and there are plans for the opening of up to 8. In 1. 99. 9, Starbucks experimented with eateries in the San Francisco Bay area through a restaurant chain called Circadia.[3. These restaurants were soon "outed" as Starbucks establishments and converted to Starbucks cafes. In October 2. 00. Starbucks established a coffee trading company in Lausanne, Switzerland to handle purchases of green coffee. All other coffee- related business continued to be managed from Seattle.[3.

In April 2. 00. 3, Starbucks completed the purchase of Seattle's Best Coffee and Torrefazione Italia from AFC Enterprises for $7. The deal only gained 1. Starbucks, but according to the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, the wholesale business was more significant.[3.

In September 2. 00.

Washington Heights, Manhattan - Wikipedia. Coordinates: 4. 0°5. N7. 3°5. 6′1. 5″W / 4. N 7. 3. 9. 37. 50°W / 4. The highest point on Manhattan is in Bennett Park in Washington Heights, within the subsection of Hudson Heights. The inset at bottom left magnifies the plaque at right.

Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York Cityborough of Manhattan. The area, with over 1. Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on the island of Manhattan by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the British forces. Washington Heights is bordered by Harlem to the south, along 1.

Street, Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street or Hillside Avenue, the Hudson River to the west, and the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east. History[edit]Early history[edit]In the 1. Europeans, leaving the rest of Manhattan largely untouched.

Among the many unspoiled tracts of land was the highest spot on the island, which provided unsurpassed views of what would become the New York metropolitan area.[3]When the Revolutionary War came to New York, the British had the upper hand. General George Washington and troops from his Continental Army camped on the high ground, calling it Fort Washington, to monitor the advancing Redcoats. The Continental Army retreated from its location after their defeat on November 1. Battle of Fort Washington.[4] The British took the position and renamed it Fort Knyphausen in honor of Wilhelm von Knyphausen, the leader of the Hessians, who had taken a major part in the British victory.[5][6] Their location was in the spot now called Bennett Park.[7] Fort Washington had been established as an offensive position to prevent British vessels from sailing north on the Hudson River. Fort Lee, across the river, was its twin, built to assist in the defense of the Hudson Valley.[3] The progress of the battle is marked by a series of bronze plaques along Broadway. Not far from the fort was the Blue Bell Tavern, located on an intersection of Kingsbridge Road, where Broadway and West 1. Street intersect today, on the southeastern corner of modern- day Hudson Heights.[8] On July 9, 1.

New York's Provincial Congress assented to the Declaration of Independence, "A rowdy crowd of soldiers and civilians ('no decent people' were present, one witness said later) .. Broadway to Bowling Green, where they toppled the statue of George III erected in 1. The head was put on a spike at the Blue Bell Tavern .. The tavern was later used by Washington and his staff when the British evacuated New York, standing in front of it as they watched the American troops march south to retake New York.[9]By 1. Fort Washington. The Moorewood residence was there until the 1. The property was purchased by Richard Carman and sold to James Gordon Bennett Sr. Bennett's descendants later gave the land to the city to build a park honoring the Revolutionary War encampment.

Bennett Park is a portion of that land. Lucius Chittenden, a New Orleans merchant, built a home on land he bought in 1. Cabrini Boulevard and West 1. Street.[1. 0] It was known as the Chittenden estate by 1. C. P. Bucking named his home Pinehurst on land near the Hudson, a title that survives as Pinehurst Avenue.[1.

The series of ridges overlooking the Hudson were sites of villas in the 1. John James Audubon. Early and mid- 2. At the turn of the 2. The cliffs that are now Fort Tryon Park held the mansion of Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, a retired president of the Chicago Coke and Gas Company. He purchased 2. 5 acres (1.

Tryon Hall, a Louis XIV- style home designed by Gus Lowell. It had a galleried entranceway from the Henry Hudson Parkway that was 5. Maine granite.[1. In 1. 91. 7, Billings sold the land to John D. Rockefeller Jr. for $3. Tryon Hall was destroyed by fire in 1.

The estate was the basis for the book "The Dragon Murder Case" by S. S. Van Dine,[1. 3] in which detective Philo Vance had to solve a murder on the grounds of the estate, where a dragon was supposed to have lived.[9]In the early 1. Irish immigrants moved to Washington Heights. European Jews went to Washington Heights to escape Nazism during the 1.

Greeks started moving to Washington Heights in the 1. Astoria of Manhattan" by the 1. By the 1. 98. 0s–1. Dominican, constituting at the time the nation's largest Dominican community.[1. Fort Tryon[edit]During World War I, immigrants from Hungary and Poland moved in next to the Irish.[1.

Then, as Nazism grew in Germany, Jews fled. By the late 1. 93.

Germany had settled in Washington Heights.[1. The beginning of this section of Washington Heights as a neighborhood- within- a- neighborhood seems to have started around this time, in the years before World War II. One scholar refers to the area in 1.

Fort Tryon" and "the Fort Tryon area." In 1. Steven M. Lowenstein wrote, "The greatest social distance was to be found between the area in the northwest, just south of Fort Tryon Park, which was, and remains, the most prestigious section .. This difference was already remarked in 1. Lowenstein considered Fort Tryon to be the area west of Broadway, east of the Hudson, north of West 1. Street, and south of Dyckman Street, which includes Fort Tryon Park.

He writes, "Within the core area of Washington Heights (between 1. Street and Dyckman Street) there was a considerable internal difference as well.

The further north and west one went, the more prestigious the neighborhood.."[1. Frankfurt- on- the- Hudson[edit]In the years after World War II, the neighborhood was referred to as Frankfurt- on- the- Hudson due to the dense population of German and Austrian Jews who had settled there.[2. A disproportionately large number of Germans who settled there had come from Frankfurt- am- Main, possibly giving rise to new name.[1. No other neighborhood in the city was home to so many German Jews, who had created their own central German world in the 1.

Stairs running from the end of Pinehurst Avenue down to West 1. Street. In 1. 93. German- Jewish Club of New York started Aufbau, a newsletter for its members that grew into a newspaper. Its offices were nearby on Broadway.[2.

The newspaper became known as a "prominent intellectual voice and a main forum for Germanic Jewry in the United States," according to the German Embassy in Washington, D. C. "It featured the work of great prominent writers and intellectuals such as Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig, and Hannah Arendt.