Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Harlem Meer is a man-made lake at the northeast corner of New York City's Central Park. It lies west of Fifth Avenue , south of 110th Street , and north of the Conservatory Garden , near the Harlem and East Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan .
Although the ruins of Fort Montgomery survive and the site is a National Historic Landmark, the Fort Clinton site was destroyed in the 1920s during the construction of U.S. Route 9W and the Bear Mountain Bridge. [4] Today, the Fort Clinton site lies within Bear Mountain State Park and is used for the Trailside Museum and Zoo.
The fort was named after DeWitt Clinton, a mayor of New York City. [ 5 ] Previously, during the American Revolution , the site had been a redoubt used by British and Hessian soldiers to protect McGowan's Pass during their occupation of New York City from 1776 to 1783.
The fort was leased to the New York City government as an entertainment venue in June 1824; [25] the city originally paid $1,400 a year for five years. [27] The city government subleased the fort to Francis Fitch, Arthur Roorbach, and J. Rathbone. [13] Fort Clinton became Castle Garden, which served as a beer garden, exhibition hall, and theater.
In 1906 a plaque commemorating the "McGown" family and the Pass was installed nearby at the Fort Clinton memorial. [15] [16] [17] In 1915 the tavern was closed down and its furnishings auctioned off. The New York Times reported that its equipment, furniture, sporting prints, and "Old Gabe," the tavern's yellow parrot, brought in barely $1,500. [18]
HARLEM, N.Y. – The new year welcomes many new beginnings.It’s a time for promises and speeches from politicians. But it’s the words of 9-year-old Kayden Hern, of Harlem, that are echoing ...
1868 map of Central Park, detail; North Woods is at left, while Harlem Meer is at top right. North Meadow can be seen at the bottom of the image. In 1870–1871, the Tammany Hall political machine, which was the largest political force in New York at the time, took control of Central Park for a brief period.
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change is a public middle and high school in New York City serving grades 6 to 12. [1] It is named for United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The school is at 200-214 W 135th Street in Harlem. The school opened in 1993 with Harriet Pitts as principal. [2]