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A center of commerce by the 1840's, NYC attracted a growing immigrant population. Townsend Harris, President of the Board of Education, saw the need for publicly-supported higher education. In 1849, his vision was fulfilled when The Free Academy opened here…
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John Steinbeck. . The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) was a prolific writer who showed great compassion for the ordinary person caught up in political and economic circumstances beyond his or her control. Often called The Bard …
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Jerome Robbins . October 11, 1918 - July 29, 1998 . 117 East 81st Street, Manhattan . . Internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, and director Jerome Robbins lived and worked here from 1967 to 1998. Many of the more than 60 ballets he created - i…
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Alfred Sprague Bard . December 19, 1866 - March 25, 1963 . 25 Broad Street, originally the Broad Street Exchange Building . . For over 60 years, from 1901 to 1963, Albert S. Bard practiced law and pursued his civic activities from his office here. He wa…