Question: What sort of settlement was the origins of the area of New York city where Harry K Thomas Jr. was born ?

Context articles: Hank Willis Thomas
1977 New York Jets season
Harry K. Thomas Jr.
Julian Street, Jr. residence
New York Latino English
Lloyd Blankfein
Harlem
Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship
Chie Fueki
Shining Time Station

Hank Willis Thomas (born March 17, 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture.
 His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including, the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
 Thomas’ work is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, among others.
 His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), and For Freedoms which Thomas co-founded in 2016 as the first artist-run super PAC.
 For Freedoms was recently awarded the 2017 ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform.
 Thomas is also the recipient of the 2017 Soros Equality Fellowship.
 Current and upcoming exhibitions include "Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp" in New Orleans and "Freedom Isn’t Always Beautiful" at Savannah College of Art and Design Museum.
 Thomas is a member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York.
 He received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and a MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts.
 He has also received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
 Thomas lives and works in New York City.
The 1977 New York Jets season was the 18th season for the team and the 8th in the National Football League.
 It began with the team trying to improve upon its 3–11 record from 1976 under new head coach Walt Michaels and beginning the post-Joe Namath era.
 However, the Jets struggled with their third consecutive 3-11 season.
 They won a major off the field court decision.
 As per the memorandum of understanding signed in late 1961 by team original owner (as the New York Titans) Harry Wismer, Shea Stadium's co-tenants, the New York Mets, would have exclusive use of the stadium until they had completed their season.
 The Jets were, in most years, required to open the season with several road games, a problem made worse in 1969 and 1973 when the Mets had long playoff runs.
 Feeling that this arrangement was a disadvantage, the team announced in 1977 that they would play two home games a year during the month of September at the Giants' new home in New Jersey, Giants Stadium.
 Litigation began between New York City and the Jets over the issue, and in the lawsuit's settlement, the city agreed to allow the Jets to play two September home games a season at Shea beginning in 1978 for the remaining six years in the Jets' lease.
 In 1977, the Jets were to play one September game at Giants Stadium and an October 2 game at Shea.
 From 1967 through this season—a span of 11 seasons—the Jets did not play a home game at Shea Stadium in the month of September.
 As of 2017, the Jets are the first (and so far, only) team in NFL history to finish 3 straight seasons with only 3 wins.
 Since the NFL schedule expanded to 16 games in 1978, no team has finished 3-13 3 years in a row.
Harry Keels Thomas Jr. (born June 3, 1956 in the Harlem section of New York City) is an American diplomat and current United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe.
 He served as the United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 2010 to 2013.
 A former United States Ambassador to Bangladesh (serving from 2003 to 2005) and Director General of the United States Foreign Service (serving from 2007 to 2009), Thomas was designated by US President Barack Obama on November 19, 2009 to replace Kristie Kenney as Ambassador to the Philippines—the first African American to serve at that post.
 He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 19, 2010 and presented his credentials to Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 27, 2010 He was then nominated and confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe on October 22, 2015.
 He was sworn in on December 8, 2015.
The Julian Street, Jr. residence is an early Modernist fieldstone house in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
 The house was designed by the New York architect Wallace K. Harrison for Julian Street, Jr. and his wife, Narcissa, in 1938.
 Harrison, primarily known as a monuments architect through his works in New York City like Rockefeller Center and the United Nations complex, also designed a few private residences.
 Harrison designed and built the Julian Street, Jr. residence at 710 Long Hill Road West as an unconventional experiment in the early Modernist architecture that was just being introduced in America during the late 1930s.
An ethno-cultural dialect of the English language, primarily spoken by Hispanic Americans on the East Coast of the United States, demonstrates considerable influence from New York City English and African American Vernacular English, with certain additional features borrowed from the Spanish language.
 The academic literature has recently labelled the language variety New York Latino English, referring to its city of nineteenth-century origin, or, more inclusively, East Coast Latino English.
 In the 1970s scholarship, the variety was more narrowly called (New York City) Puerto Rican English or Nuyorican English.
 The dialect originated with the Puerto Ricans moving to New York City after World War I, though particularly in the subsequent generations born in the New York dialect region who were native speakers of both English and Spanish.
 Today, it is the customary dialect of many Hispanic Americans of diverse national heritages, not simply Puerto Ricans, in the New York metropolitan area and beyond along the northeastern coast of the United States.
Lloyd Blankfein was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a Jewish family, and reared in the Linden Houses, a New York City Housing Authority project in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
 His father, Seymour Blankfein, was a clerk with the U.S. Postal Service branch in the Manhattan borough of New York City and his mother was a receptionist.
 As a boy, he worked as a concession vendor at Yankee Stadium.
 He received primary and secondary education in the public schools of the New York City Department of Education, and was the valedictorian at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971.
 He attended Harvard College, where he lived in Winthrop House, majored in History and earned his A.B. in 1975.
 In 1978, Blankfein received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
 Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African American residential, cultural and business center.
 Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands.
 Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
The Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship is a competitive academic grant made each year to fifteen undergraduates nominated by 12 affiliated New York City colleges which provides successive summer internships for three years, stipends, mentoring, and seminars.
 The fellowship is a program of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, named after the wife of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson.
 Jeanette K. Watson Fellows intern at not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and for-profit organization in New York in their first two Watson summers.
 In their third summer, they typically intern in overseas offices of such organizations as the Institute of International Education, Save the Children, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, as well as community-based organizations in such countries as India, South Africa, and Ghana.
Chie Fueki (born 1973) is a Japanese American painter.
 She has had an active career exhibiting her work in commercial galleries and has been represented by Mary Boone Gallery in New York City and Shoshana Wayne gallery in Santa Monica, California.
 Her intricately patterned and detailed paintings, often created on mulberry paper or wood panel, combine influences from both Eastern and Western decorative and folk arts and range in subject from sports imagery to more traditional subjects such as memento mori and portraits of friends.
 Laura Newman wrote that the shimmering surfaces in Fueki's paintings "give the works a sensuous, intoxicating delight of the sort more often associated with decoration than with thoughtful contemporary painting."
 Beyond the surfaces lie rich emotional and sometimes humorous content.
 She currently lives and works in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York.
Shining Time Station is an American children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow.
 The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company (now Gullane Entertainment, a subsidiary of HiT Entertainment) and Quality Family Entertainment in New York City for New York City's PBS station WNET, and was originally taped in New York City and later in Toronto.
 It incorporated sequences from the British television show "Thomas & Friends", which was in turn based on a series of books that had been written by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry.
 The series aired on PBS from January 29, 1989 until June 11, 1993, and then continued on the network in reruns until June 11, 1998.
 It aired on Fox Family from 1998 to 1999.
 It also aired on Nick Jr. in 2000 and on Canadian television networks such as APTN and SCN.
 Elements from the show were incorporated into the Thomas and Friends film "Thomas and the Magic Railroad."