One neighborhood of New York County is contiguous with the mainland. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan.
For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey. The avant-garde (from French, advance guard or vanguard, literally fore-guard) are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
Gertrude Stein. From the time she moved to France in 1903 until her death in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946, American writer Gertrude Stein was a central figure in the Parisian art world. An advocate of the avant garde, Stein helped shape an artistic movement that demanded a novel form of expression and a conscious break with the past.