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KMBC-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside CW affiliate KCWE (channel 29). Both stations share studios on Winchester Avenue in the Ridge-Winchester section of Kansas City, Missouri, while KMBC-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Blue Valley section.KMBC-TV also serves as an alternate ABC affiliate for the St. Joseph market, as its transmitter also produces a city-grade signal that reaches St. Joseph proper and rural areas in the market's central and southern counties. The station is also available in that market on select cable providers (including Suddenlink Communications) as a secondary ABC outlet to KQTV (channel 2), which has served as the network's official St. Joseph station since it became a full-time affiliate in June 1967; KMBC-TV's near-ubiquitous cable distribution in St. Joseph dates back to KQTV's former status as a primary CBS affiliate from its September 1953 sign-on until the former KFEQ-TV disaffiliated from that network in 1967, a period in which the station supplemented its CBS offerings with a limited selection of ABC programs.

East High School is a comprehensive high school located at 1924 Van Brunt Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. It is part of the Kansas City Public Schools.

Elmwood Cemetery is a 43-acre historic rural cemetery, located in what is now the urban area of 4900 Truman Road at the corner of Van Brunt Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. It was formally organized in 1872 and was landscaped by George Kessler. The first burial was infant Sallie Ayers on July 5, 1872. Features include the public vault and crematorium c. 1897, entrance gate and fence c. 1900, Kirkland B. Armour Chapel (1904, 1917), and Cemetery Office (1925). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.The 36,000 plot cemetery is owned, operated, and maintained by the non-profit, Elmwood Cemetery Society.

KDMR (1190 AM) is a radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by the Catholic Radio Network, Inc. It airs a Roman Catholic religious radio format. KDMR airs both local shows and national programming from EWTN Radio. KDMR operates with 5000 watts by day. Because AM 1190 is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Class A stations KEX in Portland, Oregon, and XEWK in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, KDMR must reduce power at night to 500 watts to avoid interference. Programming is simulcast on FM translator station K237GQ in Kansas City, Kansas, at 95.3 MHz.

The Hardesty Federal Complex is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) site in the Lykins neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. The complex is a significant Kansas City example of a Modern Industrial architectural style. Its history of redevelopment reflects one century of major shifts in American commerce, military logistics, and environmental and fair housing policy. The main building was constructed in 1919–1920 as a massive mail order warehouse for the National Cloak & Suit Company. It was acquired and expanded by the U.S. Army in 1941 to become the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot for global operations of World War II. The military's chemical treatment operations created severe and persistent soil and groundwater pollution that migrated up to one-half mile (0.80 km) into the surrounding neighborhoods, posing possible public health risks for decades through vapor intrusion into homes. After the war, the General Services Administration (GSA) reused the site for various federal offices until it was vacated in the early 2000s. The GSA's cleanup of the brownfield site under the CERCLA pollution disaster framework was delayed for several years. In 2023, Arnold Development Group began a large-scale, publicly subsidized revitalization project to convert the complex into a mixed-use residential and commercial district.

Forest Park was a privately owned 10-acre (4.0 ha) amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, that operated from 1903 to 1912. It was located at the southwest corner of Independence and Hardesty Avenues in the city's Historic Northeast area, in what became a six-block area of the Lykins neighborhood. This definitive trolley park was strategically situated to increase off-peak fares at the eastern terminus of the Independence Avenue streetcar line. Forest Park was designed and owned by Colonel John D. Hopkins, inspired by his successful Forest Park Highlands in St. Louis, and fortified with some attractions he bought from the 1904 World's Fair held at Forest Park in St. Louis. It had a wide array of modern mechanical rides, live entertainment, and themed attractions. The park was marketed as a respectable, family-friendly destination, featuring a dress code and a "beerless" German Village to avoid the saloons associated with competing parks and in response to neighborhood protest against alcohol. It opened during a period of unprecedented population growth and economic expansion in Kansas City, capitalizing on a new urban market for mass leisure. During its nine-year history, it competed intensely with several other local amusement parks, especially the more lavish and alcohol-friendly Heim's Electric Park. After irreversible decline, its final season in 1912 held a controversial Jackson County Negro Fair, which sparked a racially motivated legal backlash from the surrounding white community. All of the park's assets were sold for only $5,000 (equivalent to $167,000 in 2025). Forest Park's closure reportedly ended a piece of neighborhood culture.

Lykins is a neighborhood in the Historic Northeast section of Kansas City, Missouri. The land has a continuous human history of nearly two millennia, first as a major center for the Hopewell tradition around 0 CE and later as part of the vast territory of the Osage Nation since at least the 1600s. The Osage Treaty of 1825 forced the Osage Nation to cede its claims and leave. This opened the area to the territorial evolution of the United States, which led to the founding of the town of Kansas, Missouri, which became Kansas City. As the city grew, it progressively annexed the land that would become Lykins, and the area was platted in the 1880s as a classic streetcar suburb. This early development was shaped by George Kessler's plan within the nationwide City Beautiful movement, including Lykins Square Park in the city's first Parks and Boulevards system. The Lykins School, then Lykins Square Park, and then the Lykins neighborhood, are the namesakes of Johnston Lykins, the famous missionary to the native tribes, who pioneered the wide area, cofounded Kansas City, and became its first legal mayor and a major civic booster. In the mid-20th century, the neighborhood was part of the severe decline of the city's east side due to redlining, white flight, disinvestment, and the fragmenting construction of federal highways. In the 21st century, Lykins became a recognized exemplar of community-led revitalization, spearheaded by the Lykins Neighborhood Association in visionary partnerships with nonprofit design groups like the Hoxie Collective and Eco Abet. This includes the redevelopment of the Hardesty Federal Complex, a former World War II military depot, into a sustainable, walkable community. The neighborhood is one of Kansas City's most diverse, as a primary destination for immigrants and refugees. Diversity is in its global culture, restaurants, and schools. Over 20 languages are spoken at Whittier Elementary. According to the school, the student body at Northeast High School is exceptionally diverse, with students who speak over 50 languages and represent more than 60 countries.

Sheffield is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.A post office called Sheffield was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1902. The community's name is a transfer from Sheffield, England.

Northeast High School is a public high school located at 415 Van Brunt Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, next to Northeast Middle School. It is part of the Kansas City Public Schools.

Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company was a diverse steel parts manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Missouri that through its successors at its peak in the 1950s employed more than 4,500 people. The plant started in 1888. In 1925 it was acquired by Sheffield Steel Corporation with its variety of products and was billed as a department store of the steel industry with a more diversified line of products than any mill in the country." It was located near the confluence of the Missouri River and Blue River (Missouri) in Kansas City's Northeast Industrial District. The company was the first manufacturer to go into the district and within 10 years 30 other manufacturers followed it with the enclaves adopting the English industrial town names of Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester as levees were built to protect it.It was acquired by Armco Steel in 1930 which expanded it in 1945. At its peak it was one of Kansas City's largest employers with more than 4,500 employees. Operating as Armco Worldwide Grinding System, it was sold in 1993 to GS Technologies which then became GST Steel Company. In 1997 the plant had a 10-week strike. It closed in February 2001 with the layoff of 750 employees.The closing of the company (plant) drew considerable attention in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election because of scrutiny of the business dealings of Mitt Romney who had founded Bain Capital which had acquired controlling interest of GST Steel in 1993 for $24.5 million. Romney had left Bain in 1999 before the bankruptcy. Employees noted that Bain had loaded the company with debt while earning profits ($58.4 million). At the time of its bankruptcy it said it owed $553.9 million in debts against $395.2 million in assets. In 2002 it was revealed the company had underfunded the pension for employees by $44 million. GS Steel derives its name from Georgetown Steel which operates a steel plant in Georgetown, South Carolina. The South Carolina and Missouri operations were combined by Bain. The South Carolina plant closed in 2003. That plant reopened in 2003 with a different owner (International Steel Group) later Mittal Steel and later ArcelorMittal. During the 2012 U.S. Presidential election laid off plant worker Joe Soptic was featured in an advertisement against Romney claiming that his wife died of cancer after he lost his health insurance in the closing. The ad stated "When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill." An investigation by The Washington Post showed that Soptic's wife had died of cancer in 2006 five years after the plant closed and that she had her own health insurance at the time of the closing but lost it after she left that job in 2002.

Washington-Wheatley is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The neighborhood is located between 18th Street and 27th Street and Prospect Avenue to I-70. It is mostly an African-American neighborhood on the East Side.

Leeds is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.A post office called Leeds was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1929. The community's name is a transfer from Leeds, England.It used to be the site of a General Motors assembly plant from 1929-1988.