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In 1958 Brownsweg was built for the inhabitants of the area that was flooded after the construction of the Afobaka Dam. One of the main concerns was the transmigration of the 5,000 people living in the area. [2] Bronsweg was a stop at the former Lawa Railway, and in 1959 the Prinses Marijke camp was built near the hamlet. [3]
McCall was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Catholic Club of New York, the Manhattan Club, the New York Athletic Club, the City Club of New York, the Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Arts Club. [1] In 1870, he married Mary I. Horan.
Bruce and Schomburg originally met because of their Masonic involvement and began attending a Sunday Men's Club that met in Bruce's apartment. [2] The NSHR, based in Yonkers , New York, aimed to create an institute to support Pan-African—African, West Indian and Afro-American—scholarly efforts. [ 1 ]
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (2017) excerpt; Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), book version of 17-hour Burns PBS documentary, "NEW YORK: A Documentary Film" Connable, Alfred and Edward Silberfarb. Tigers of Tammany: Nine Men Who Ran New York (Holt, 1967); popular history.
The building currently houses the offices of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, City Parks Foundation, Historic House Trust, and the nearby Central Park Zoo as well as an art gallery known as the Arsenal Gallery, but it has also served as a zoo, a police precinct and a weather bureau and housed the American Museum of Natural ...
The MacDowell Club of New York City was established in 1905 and disbanded in 1942. It was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting the MacDowell Colony, the artists' retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Mary Garrett Hay on the telephone in 1918. Mary Garrett Hay (August 20, 1857 – August 29, 1928) was an American suffragist and community organizer. She served as president of the Women's City Club of New York, the Woman Suffrage Party and the New York Equal Suffrage League.
2009 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America 2010 Ralph K. Smith 2011 The Crew of US Airways Flight 1549 2012 Dominick M. Servedio. P.E. 2013 Joseph E. Spinnato (Hotel Association of New York) 2014 Actors Fund of America 2015 Jaros, Baum & Bolles, New York City Fire Department 2016 Richmond County Savings Bank 2017 Fordham University