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Julius
Walker Adams, Civil War colonel, engineer who designed
preliminary plans for the Brooklyn Bridge |
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Albert
Anastasia, mobster |
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Jean
Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist, Andy Warhol protege |
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Henry
Ward Beecher, abolitionist, religious leader, subject
of scandal
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Leonard
Bernstein, music giant: composer, conductor, and teacher |
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Harvey
Burdell, murder victim |
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George
Catlin, painter of Indians |
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Henry
Chadwick, "Father of Baseball" |
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Kate
Claxton, actress on stage during the Brooklyn Theater
fire |
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De
Witt Clinton, force behind the Erie Canal, political leader |
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Abraham
Duryee, Civil War general |
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Charles
Ebbets, Brooklyn Dodgers' owner |
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Molly
Fancher, psychic |
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Joey
Gallo, mobster nicknamed "Crazy Joe" |
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Henry
George, political and economic reformer |
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Louis
Moreau Gottschalk, America's first great composer |
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Horace
Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune |
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Henry
Halleck, General in command of all Union forces during
the Civil War |
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William
Surrey Hart, cowboy actor |
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Laura
Keene, actress on stage at Ford's Theatre when President
Lincoln was shot |
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Ward
McAllister, New York's social arbiter |
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Susan
Smith McKinney-Steward, first black woman doctor in New
York State |
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Lola
Montez, independent woman famed for her affairs and her
Spider Dance |
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Frank
Morgan, actor, best known for his role as the Wizard in
"The Wizard of Oz" |
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Napoleon
Sarony, photographer to the stars |
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George
Tilyou, proprietor of Coney Island's Steeplechase Park |
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Juan
Trippe, founder of Pan American Air Airways |
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"Boss"
Tweed, political boss of New York City |
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Lester
Walleck, actor |
