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Jackie Robinson Park and Pool
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6 St. Nicholas Place

Manhattan: St. Nicholas Avenue - Fort George Avenue

St. Nicholas Place, east side, north across W. 150th Street. At the right is the 6-story Audubon Court Apartments. Adjoining same are the several buildings that house the Community Hospital in New York City. These are at the S. E. corner of 150th Street. Across the street at the N. E. corner is the reputed Ringling mansion. One, J. A. Bailey owned same in 1904. This individual may have been one of the famous circus owners, Barnum and Bailey, the predecessors to the present
Ringling Brothers.
H. Acker is the owner in 1910, Louis Schaefer in 1918 and a Bertha Koemple in 1959. Adjoining this is the minaretted
A. Alexander home.
View 2 shows only the structures at the N. E. corner. The triangular park that separates St. Nicholas Place from the
Avenue of the same name, is Donnelson Square.
May 19, 1940
April 19, 1940
P. L. Snerr
No. 3
The Community Hospital and it's adjoining buildings as photographed across the aforementioned Donnelson Square.
June 5, 1940
P. L. Sperr

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