Cotuit 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2004 Capital and Largest city of Rhode Island. Area: 18.2 Square Miles (47.14 Sq. KM) Population (City): 176,862 (2005 est.) Overall Density: 9,718 Persons Per Square Mile Population (MSA): 1,622,520 (2005 est.) Rank: 35/361 Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI, MA MSA Population (CSA): 7,427,336 (2005 est.) Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA PROVIDENCE NEIGHBORHOODS CITY LINKS City of Providence Providence Public Library NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY GROUPS Greater City: Providence (GC:PVD) Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce of Rhode Island The Jewelry District Jewish Federation of Rhode Island Olneyville Housing Corporation Providence After School Alliance Providence Plan Providence Preservation Society The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society RI Pride Save The Bay Southside Community Land Trust Summit Neighborhood Association College Hill Neighborhood Association The Elmwood Foundation WBNA | West Broadway Neighborhood Association West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation YMCA of Greater Providence Groundwork Providence Providence Geeks TRANSIT RIPTA | Statewide bus service MBTA Commuter Rail Amtrak/Acela Bonanza/Peter Pan Bus Lines Greyhound Bus Lines Vineyard Fast Ferry | Quonset Point-Martha's Vineyard T.F. Green Airport Bike RI RIDoT Rhodeways Block Island Highspeed Ferry Bike Downtown ARTS What's going on in Providence?Providence Department of Arts. Culture, and Tourism Subscribe to the Department's weekly email newsletters or read them online.Tazza Caffe Westminster Street, Downcity. Visit Tazza's website for information on entertainment at the caffe and sign up for their weekly email newsletter.The Providence Phoenix's Eight Days weekly picks.Providence Monthly's Happenings and Dining Guide. Eastside Monthly's Calendar.ProJo's Happening Tonight, Theatre, Calendar, and This Weekend LIVE.Ocean State Singles, a grass roots singles group just for getting people together, not dating, that has lots of good events and conversation...Rhode Island Monthly Calendar and Restaurants.Options, Rhode Island's monthly gay and lesbian news magazine, Calendar.RILGBT-NEWS is a free, confidential email list for news and announcements from and about the LGBT and AIDS communities of Rhode Island.LOTSOFNOISE Music - Art - Providence | Local arts listings, message board, and more. Trinity Repertory Company Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) AS220 Perishable Theatre New Urban Arts WaterFire RISD Museum Providence Black Repertory Company Gallery Night RI International Film Festival ArtTix Russian Submarine Museum Providence Children's Museum Roger Williams Park Zoo Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University Roger Williams National Memorial Park Opera Providence Newgate Theatre Feinstein IMAX Theatre Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative Dunkin Donuts Center Fleet Skating Center Providence Place Mall Pawtucket Arts Festival Pawtucket Gamm Theatre Pawtucket Arts Exchange | Pawtucket Armory Pawtucket Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Pawtucket Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor Pawtucket-Woonsocket Slater Mill Pawtucket Newport Art Museum Newport Newport Arts Festival Newport Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County Newport Newport Mansions Newport MEDIA Newspapers & Magazines Providence Journal Providence Business News Providence Phoenix Providence Monthly | Eastside Monthly Options | RI's Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine Brown Daily Herald Brown University Edge | Gay Providence News and Entertainment Television WLNE-TV Channel 6 ABC WSBE-TV Channel 8 Rhode Island Public Television WJAR-TV Channel 10 NBC WPRI-TV Channel 12 CBS WLWC-TV Channel 28 UPN WNAC-TV Channel 64 FOX Providence Radio WRNI 1290 AM Rhode Island's NPR News Station WADK 1540 AM Variety WALE 990 AM Talk WARV 1590 AM Religous WJJF 1180 AM Country WNRI 1380 AM Talk WOON 1240 AM Easy Listening WPRO 630 AM News/Talk WRIB 1220 AM Ethnic WSKO 790 AM Sports W243AI 96.5 FM Classical WBLQ 88.1 FM Variety WBRU 95.5 FM Alternative Brown University WCTK 98.1 Country WHJY 94.1 FM Rock WPRO 92.3 FM Top-40 WWBB 101.5 FM Oldies WWKX 106.3 FM & 102.7 Hip Hop WWLI 105.1 FM Adult Contemporary WWRX 103.7 FM Alternative COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Brown University Bryant University Smithfield Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) Johnson & Wales University New England Institute of Technology Warwick Providence College Rhode Island College (RIC) Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Roger Williams University Salve Regina University Newport University of Rhode Island (URI) SPORTS Minor League Baseball | Pawtucket Red Sox (PawSox) Pawtucket NFL | New England Patriots Foxboro, MA Minor League Hockey | Providence Bruins College Basketball | Providence College Friars MLS | New England Revolution Foxboro, MA Brown University | Brown Bears College Hockey | RISD Nads International Tennis Hall of Fame Newport LODGING Providence Biltmore Hotel The Westin Providence The Providence Marriot Courtyard Marriot Providence Radisson Hotel Providence Harbor Holiday Inn Downtown Hotel Providence State House Inn What Cheer Bed & Breakfast The Christopher Dodge House Bed & Breakfast Annie Brownell House Bed & Breakfast The Cady House C.C. 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jarrodslc 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2004 Great info. I have always thought Providence looked like a nice city. Hopefully I'll get to see it in person one day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2004 We're slowly working on getting profiles up for most cities we have subforums for. They continue to be a work in progress. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted January 11, 2005 If anyone has anything to add to this, or if I screwed something up, please let me know, and I will edit it. This profile will be a continual work-in-progress. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PghUSA 0 Report post Posted January 11, 2005 Looks good! Couldn't help but notice though that the hockey teams mascot are the "Nads"? I don't know wether to laugh or to think those must be some tough dudes to where jerseys with that on them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted January 11, 2005 They're art students, I don't think they've ever won a game. The Nads name means when the crowd is cheering they yell, "Go Nads! Go Nads!" Notice the placement of the pucks in the team logo... Their mascot is a giant penis. Some teams refuse to play them if the mascot comes out. You can buy t-shirts shirt shirt I have one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArtInRuins 0 Report post Posted March 11, 2005 RISD has a basketball team too, called, aptly, the Balls, and for awhile some girls got together and started a soccer team. Their name... the Jugs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted March 11, 2005 The RISD Balls played RISD Public Safety last week, it was the Balls first win of the season. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recchia 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2005 Just joined this website after reading it for weeks and weeks. It has to be the most informative and interesting forum site I've come across. I'm a Rhode Island native (Warwick) who's studying urban planning at SUNY Albany, so all this is very interesting and right up my ally. Keep it up this is great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2005 Glad you decided to join in Recchia. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M. Brown 0 Report post Posted May 27, 2005 Wow. Nice profile. Less Afro-American than I expected. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted May 27, 2005 Wow. Nice profile. Less Afro-American than I expected.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure how much of that hispanic group could also be categorized as african-american. There's also a sizeable 'other' category, who knows what race/ethnicity those people are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ironchapman 1 Report post Posted June 23, 2005 (edited) Nicely done, Cotuit! I'm working on one for the Atlanta forum right now that is modeled after yours. Edited June 23, 2005 by ironchapman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recchia 0 Report post Posted July 1, 2005 Providence's new July 1, 2004 population estimate is 178,126 according to the census. I don't know how much to trust this though, since they were predicting a 2000 population of 150,000 and it ended up being 173,000 (remember that, and they said RI would be down to 990,000, when really it went up to 1,048,000). Anyway, here it is: http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables...-EST2004-01.xls Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted July 1, 2005 Up 1,700 in a year seems about right, maybe even a little high. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ruchele 0 Report post Posted July 1, 2005 (edited) Up 1,700 in a year seems about right, maybe even a little high. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very interesting and exciting. Cotuit, why does this seem about right, or high? I don't know much about this population shift stuff. Right or high compared to what? What's considered normal? Edited July 1, 2005 by ruchele Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted July 3, 2005 Cotuit, why does this seem about right, or high? I don't know much about this population shift stuff. Right or high compared to what? What's considered normal?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just considering our economy, which has some good indicators, but compared to the south and west is a bit stagnant. And the number of housing units introduced recently. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZachariahDaMan 1 Report post Posted October 13, 2005 Interesting profile on Providence, I would love to visit it someday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBostonian 0 Report post Posted February 9, 2006 What does "turnto" mean in turnto10, your NBC affiliate? Is it "Turn to ten"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gregw 0 Report post Posted February 9, 2006 What does "turnto" mean in turnto10, your NBC affiliate? Is it "Turn to ten"? Play on words--turn the dial to 10 and turn to 10 as you might turn to a trusted news source. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
runawayjim 0 Report post Posted February 28, 2006 the link for the arts culture and tourism dept is typo'd (it has http://ttp://...) also, are you sure on the oldest tavern? i thought that was in boston (the bell in hand or something like that?). unless a tavern and a bar are different... i'm curious on your sources for the RI trivia... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted February 28, 2006 i'm curious on your sources for the RI trivia... A couple of RI websites, I can't remember which ones, I thought I'd left a link to them, but I guess I didn't. Trivia is often open to interpretation. I really need to update the entire profile, but it's a bit time consuming. It's on my to-do list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MapmanNo1 0 Report post Posted March 1, 2006 the link for the arts culture and tourism dept is typo'd (it has http://ttp://...) also, are you sure on the oldest tavern? i thought that was in boston (the bell in hand or something like that?). unless a tavern and a bar are different... i'm curious on your sources for the RI trivia... Okay, because I am a local trivia dork, here goes... "Gaspee" has two "e's." But that's a minor point. The White Horse Tavern in Newport is the oldest tavern building in America. The building began as a tavern, and is currently a tavern, but has not always been a tavern. So it can't claim to be "the oldest continuously operating tavern in America." I think that claim to fame belongs to the Union Oyster House in Boston, though I am not sure. Another fun fact: The Newport Mercury, currently one of Newport's two alternative weeklies, is one of (if not the) oldest newspaper in America. It began in 1758 and the only time it ceased publication was while Newport was occupied by the British during the revolution. The Hartford Courant also claims this distinction. The Newport County CVB has a whole list of "Newport firsts" here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 2005 population estimates by county are out. Rhode Island and all counties within Rhode Island are down, and the Providence Metropolitan Area (all of RI plus Bristol County, MA) is down from 2003 at 1,622,520. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cotuit 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 San Francisco CITYSCAPE questions the estimates for their city. Federal estimates for 2005 put SF at just below 740k, while the state's estimate for the city is 795k. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
