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Founded in 1900, The Hall of Fame was the first memorial of its kind in the country, built to honor prominent Americans with a significant impact on this nation’s history. Despite its significance, the Hall can seem at odds with the vibrant community that surrounds it, a relational disparity between the honorees represented and the very diverse student body now attending Bronx Community College (BCC). The story of the Hall Fame illustrates our changing attitudes about the idea of greatness, the racialized divestment of the Bronx, and the beginnings of the modern tension between New York’s large institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities.
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Washington Square Art Show display on the construction fence for the NYU Law Center, ca. 1950.
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136 Macdougal Street
136 MacDougal Street at E. 3rd Street, New York City, undated (ca. June 1919).
47 Washington Square South
Manhattan: Washington Square South - Sullivan Street 47-40 Washington Square South, west from Sullivan to Macdougal Streets. Compare with Brown Brothers' photo of this block in 1905, a year or two after Sullivan Street had been cut through from West Third Street. As shown here, the buildings are shortly to be remodelled into apartments and studios. About 1922. Gift of E. M. Jenks.
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Washington Square Art Show display on the construction fence for the NYU Law Center.
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Demolition of Washington Square South between MacDougal Alley and Sullivan Street. Caption on back of photograph reads: "View of the site of the new NYU Law building, located between Washington Square South and West 3rd Street, and between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street. View I from the corner of Sullivan Street and West 3rd Street.
47 Washington Square South
Manhattan: Washington Square South - Sullivan Street 47-40 Washington Square South, west from Sullivan to Macdougal Streets. These houses will be drastically remodeled about 1923. At the time of this picture Sullivan Street had only recently been cut through the block from West Third Street, thus causing the demolition for 48-49 Washington Square. 49 Washington Square had been the Westmore Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls (established 1881). Notice the old horse-car track alongside the more modern electric track. September 8, 1905. Brown Brothers, Photographers.
103 West 3rd Street
Manhattan: 3rd Street (West) - Sullivan Street 103-107 West 3rd Street, north side, between Sullivan and MacDougal Streets, Greenwich Village. May 23, 1933. P. L. Sperr. THE NEV YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANT TILNEN FOUNDATIONS
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