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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: New York County, N.Y.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Tompkins</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Straus <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (established 1895 as Schuyler Square; renamed 1907 as Bloomingdale Square; renamed 1915 as Straus Park), at Broadway and West End Avenue in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#369.88.99">Isidor Straus</a> and his wife.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Denny Farrell Riverbank State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (opened 1993 as Riverbank State Park; renamed 2017), in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farrell.html#082.53.79">Denny Farrell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Herman 'Denny' Farrell <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Pedestrian Bridge</a> (opened 2017), over the Henry Hudson Parkway and railroad tracks, to Riverside Park, in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farrell.html#082.53.79">Denny Farrell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Francis Goldin Houses <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">apartment building</a> (opened 2018), in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/golan-goldis.html#547.27.87">Frances Goldin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Adam Clayton Powell Jr. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Boulevard</a> (formerly part of Seventh Avenue), in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/powell.html#405.74.61">Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Adam Clayton Powell <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (opened 1974 as the Harlem State Office Building; renamed 1983), in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/powell.html#405.74.61">Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Samuel Seabury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Playground</a> (opened 1962, renamed 1989), Lexington Avenue at 96th Street, Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#430.53.91">Samuel Seabury</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Robert F. Wagner Jr. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (opened 1996), in Battery Park City, Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagner.html#612.74.34">Robert F. Wagner III</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Seward <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#231.48.38">William H. Seward</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schultze-schuveldt.html#767.01.16">Carl Schurz</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Henry <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Street</a> and Rutgers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Street</a>, in Manhattan, are both named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russen-ruther.html#016.40.36">Henry Rutgers</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> for International Careers, in Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Reservoir</a>, in Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, Manhattan, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:8pt;"> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are <b>incomplete</b>; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is <b>not</b> guaranteed. 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