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The doctors' riot was an incident that occurred in April 1788 in New York City, where the illegal procurement of corpses from the graves of the recently deceased caused a mass expression of discontent from poorer New Yorkers that was directed primarily at physicians and medical students.
It has also been called better than The New York Times by New York magazine: In 2005, in its "123 Reasons Why We Love New York Right Now," New York dubbed The New York Times Reason #51, "because our hometown paper is still the greatest in the world," the magazine said...before adding, #52, on the facing page: "...next to The Villager."
Isaac D. Fletcher was an industrialist and art collector during the late 19th century, [15] [16] who was the president of the New York Coal Tar Company and the Barrett Manufacturing Company. [7] Fletcher purchased a land lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street from Henry H. Cook for $200,000 (equivalent to $7,324,800 in 2023) in 1897.
The hospital was founded in 1934 by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, based in upstate New York, to serve a working-class Manhattan neighborhood, composed largely of Italian and Irish immigrants to the United States. It provided basic nursing care; to help with this, a school of nursing was founded.
It was New York City's 19th municipal hospital, [10] serving residents of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that was at the time expanding with European immigration. [11] It was the first public hospital in the United States to create a tuberculosis clinic, and the first to employ a female ambulance surgeon, Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer. [5]
As of the 2000 census, there are 553 villages in New York. There is no limit to the population of a village in New York; Hempstead, the largest village in the state, has 55,000 residents, making it more populous than some of the state's cities. However, villages in the state may not exceed five square miles (13 km 2) in area. Present law ...
Pages in category "Villages in New York (state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 525 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 7th Regiment of the New York Militia, aka the "Silk Stocking" regiment, was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Also known as the "Blue-Bloods" due to the disproportionate number of its members who were part of New York City's social elite, [1] the 7th Militia was a pre-war New York Militia unit that was mustered into federal service for the Civil War.