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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Manhattan, New York County, New York. Manhattan, known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, and coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manha...
Columbia University Wikipedia Columbia University in the City of New York , commonly referred to as Columbia University , is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges fou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in The Bronx, Bronx County, New York. History & Etymology Early Names The Bronx was called Rananchqua by the native Siwanoy band of Lenape (also known historically as the Delawares), while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as Keskeskeck. It was divided by the Aquahung River. The origin of Jonas Bronck (c. 1600–43) has been conte...
This project is the portal or master project for New York City. This project will include or link to sub-projects on New York City history and genealogy, AFTER 1674. Prior to 1674, see the New Amsterdam projects . New York City Projects State of New York The Bronx Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Staten Island
The World War II East Coast Memorial is located in Battery Park, New York City. This memorial commemorates those soldiers, sailors, Marines, coast guardsmen, merchant mariners and airmen who met their deaths in the service of their country in the western waters of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Its axis is oriented on the Statue of Liberty. On each side of the axis are four gray granit...
Please add the profiles of those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire or were associated with it. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men – who died from the fir...
no·ta·ble Adjective: worthy of attention or notice; remarkable noun: a famous or important person. no·to·ri·ous Adjective: famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. Please add the profiles of prominent people who were born in the U.S. City of New York, lived in New York, or for whom New York is a significant part of their identity. A Aaliyah (1979–2001) – ...
The Juilliard School located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905. It is informally referred to as Juilliard. The school annually trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leading music schools, with...
Wikipedia =Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in the United States and one of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, it has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. Barnard's 4-acre (1.6 ha) campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It is directly across B...
Please add Geni profiles associated with the disease best known as "yellow fever" to this project. Collaborators, feel free to add sections to the overview. ===what it is===Yellow fever, known historically as yellow jack, yellow plague, or bronze john, is an acute viral disease. The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of the female mosquito.Yellow fever is know...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Queens or Queens County, New York. Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the largest borough of New York City in area and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island, with Nassau County to the east. Queens also shares water borders with ...
Wikipedia Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with four campuses in New York City. Founded in 1886, it is a research university. The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern-Centrist-Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular kn...
Wikipedia =Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Its main campus is located in the village of Hempstead, New York, United States, approximately 7 miles east of New York City. It originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1939, t...
Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences. Through outstanding academic programs in architecture, art and engineering, and a Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the...
Table of contents====* Chapter 1 : Brief History * Chapter 2 : Immigrant Ships * Chapter 3 : Territorial Development * Chapter 4 : Origins * Chapter 5 : Immigrants .* Chapter 6 : Notable Citizens * Chapter 7 : Famous Descendants * Chapter 8 : Living Descendants * Chapter 9 : Lost Traces
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York. Official Website A home to the Lenape indigenous people, the island was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century. It was one of the 12 original counties of New York state. Staten Island was consolidated with New York City in 1898. It was formally known as the Borough of Richmond until...
Wikipedia The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York (SUNY) college of art, business, design, mass communication and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Alumni
Bank Street College of Education is a private school and graduate school in New York City. It consists of a graduate-only teacher training college and an independent nursery-through-8th-grade school. In 2020 the graduate school had about 65 full-time teaching staff and approximately 850 students, of which 87% were female. Wikipedia
Sarah Lawrence College Wikipedia _______ Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, 15 miles north of Manhattan. The college is known for its rigorous academic standards, low student-to-faculty ratio, and highly individualized course of study. The school models its approach to...
Freeholders of the commonality of the town of Westchester:*William Richardson*John Hunt* Edward Waters* Robert Huestis Ponton* William Barnes*John Bugbie*John Bailey*John Tudor* John Ferris Palmer* Thomas Baxter===HistoryFrom “Colonial Bronx to the 19th Century” link > ... Most of the eastern half of the modern Bronx was bought in 1654 by Thomas Pell of Connecticut, who invited 16 families to f...
New Netherland , or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outpos...
The Old Brick Presbyterian Church was formerly located in lower Manhattan on a wedge-shaped lot situated between Beekman Street, Park Row, Spruce Street and Nassau Street. Constructed of red brick, the church was also known as: ▫ "The Brick Church" ▫ "The Old Brick Church" ▫ "The Brick Presbyterian Church" (And, during its early years, the "New Church" and "Brick Meeting".) Built in 1767. De...
This project is for those buried in Prospect Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens County, New York. Many prominent families are buried in this, the oldest cemetery in NYC, such as the Brinkerhoffs, the Van Wycks, the Sutphins, The Remsens, The Nostrands and the Lefferts. Notable Burials Egbert Benson (1746-1833) - US Congress Gen. Increase Carpenter (1736-1807) - Member of the Sons of Liberty an...
==The High School of Performing Arts== Please add Geni profiles associated with the High School of Performing Arts in New York, New York to this project. They can include teachers, alumnae, public officials, etc. * Website: Address: 120 West 46th Street, New York, New York, United States* Type: Public Alternative High school Established: 1947 Founder: Franklin J. Keller Campus: urban* Closed: 1...