A charter authorized a private company to build and operate an East River bridge in April 1867. The odd thing about this charter is that it did not say specifically that was to be done. ... The charter said only that it be a toll bridge. A month after the charter became a law, John Roebling had been named engineer of the work. ... Stores, businesses, and even the Brooklyn schools were closed for the day. ...
Brooklyn Brooklyn was settled 1636, and chartered as part of New York City in 1898. ... These are the museums along Museum Mile : • El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street • Museum of the City of New York • International Center of Photography • Jewish Museum • Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design • National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts • Solomon R. ...
Elizabeth, with well-matured mind, and already developing the energy which has since so thoroughly characterized her, though but seventeen years of age, opened a school, which she sustained satisfactorily several years. ... Upon applying for admission to the medical schools of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, she was uniformly refused. ... The Boston and Philadelphia colleges had already been chartered, and sent forth a number of graduates; but there was then no hospital which their students could freely visit, nor was there any designed exclusively for female patients. ...
