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Second Avenue Subway Construction Management Committee

MTA Second Avenue Subway Construction Management Committee Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New York State Thomas F. Prendergast, Chairman and CEO, ΜΤΑ Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President, MTA Capital...

MTA Second Avenue Subway Construction Management Committee Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New York State Thomas F. Prendergast, Chairman and CEO, ΜΤΑ Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President, MTA...

  • new york
  • manhattan
  • upper east side
  • second avenue subway
  • mta
  • andrew cuomo
  • thomas prendergast
  • 2016

The Freedom Lots: Nineteenth-Century African-American Burial Practices in Brooklyn

THE FREEDOM LOTS Nineteenth-Century African-American Burial Practices in Brooklyn n the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this section I of the Cemetery was known as "The Colored Lots."...

THE FREEDOM LOTS Nineteenth-Century African- American Burial Practices in Brooklyn n the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this section I of the Cemetery was known as "The Colored Lots."...

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • green-wood cemetery
  • african-american
  • black
  • 1827
  • 1865