In celebration of Women's History Month in March 2008, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

Scott Stringer

Scott M. Stringer is a New York Democratic politician and currently the 26th Borough President of Manhattan.-Life and career:...

's Office created a map of important women's rights historic sites on Manhattan

Manhattan

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. The map includes 120 Manhattan locations where women who have helped shape New York City

New York City

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 and the nation have lived, worked or where they have been honored (with statues, plaques, monuments and street signs).

The Map

The map can be accessed through the website of the Office of the Manhattan Borough President or on Google Maps

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A printable version of the map is available on the Office of the Manhattan Borough President's website.

The sites and the women they honor

The map was created by the office's Deputy Chief of Staff at the time, Pam Elam. Ken Nemchin provided the Map's layout design. The following list was compiled by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.

1. Emma Warren Roebling
   Emily Warren Roebling
   Emily Warren Roebling was married to Washington Roebling, a civil engineer who was Chief Engineer during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge...
   
   
   • Address: Brooklyn Tower on Brooklyn Bridge
     Brooklyn Bridge
     The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...
     
      facing Manhattan
   • More Information: Emily Warren Roebling, who led the completion of the work on the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband was injured, was honored with a plaque on the Brooklyn Tower of the Bridge facing Manhattan. The plaque, donated by the Brooklyn Engineers Club, says: "Back of every great work we can find the self-sacrificing devotion of a woman."
2. Elizabeth Jennings
   Elizabeth Jennings
   Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet.-Life and career:Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, pp. 98-100. There she later attended St Anne's College...
   
   
   • Address: Park Row between Spruce and Beekman
   • More Information: Elizabeth Jennings Place honors the woman who was forcibly ejected from a car on the Third Avenue Railway line at the corner of Pearl Street and Chatham Square
     Chatham Square, Manhattan
     Chatham Square is a major intersection in Manhattan's Chinatown. The square lies at the confluence of seven streets: Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The postal ZIP Code is 10038.-History:...
     
     . In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings became the first African-American woman to bring a successful lawsuit seeking to end discrimination on public transportation in New York City. This case occurred a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
3. Susan B. Anthony
   Susan B. Anthony
   Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...
   
    and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
   Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...
   
   
   • Address: 37 Park Row
   • More Information: The Street Sign designating Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Corner honors these women's rights leaders near the site where the office of their 1868 newspaper, The Revolution, once stood. Anthony said "Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
4. Barbara Ruckle Heck
   Barbara Heck
   Barbara Heck was an early American Methodist, known as the “mother of American Methodism.”-Biography:...
   
   
   • Address: 44 John Street
   • More Information: In 1766, Barbara Ruckle Heck founded what is now the oldest Methodist congregation in United States at the Old John Street United Methodist Church.
5. Louise Nevelson
   • Address: Intersection of Maiden Lane, William Street and Liberty Street
   • More Information: Louise Nevelson Plaza with her sculptures entitled "Shadows and Flags" was dedicated on April 14, 1977.
6. Victoria Woodhull
   Victoria Woodhull
   Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement, an advocate of free love; together with her sister, the first women to operate a brokerage in Wall Street; the first women to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and, in 1872,...
   
    and Tennessee Clafin
   • Address: Stockbrokerage 44 Broad Street
   • Also see: Woodhull's home: 15 E. 38th Street
   • More Information: Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Clafin became the first women stockbrokers when they opened Woodhull, Clafin and Company in 1869. She also launched a newspaper, Woodhull & Clafin's Weekly, in 1870 and a campaign for President in 1872.
7. Ms. Foundation for Women
   Ms. Foundation for Women
   The Ms. Foundation for Women, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1973 by Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas. Established at the height of the feminist movement, the Ms...
   
   
   • Address: 120 Wall Street
   • More Information: The Ms. Foundation for Women, founded in 1972 to support the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them, was the country's first national, multi-issue women's fund.
8. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
   • Address: 7 State Street
   • More Information: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton lived in "Watson House" from 1801–1804, where her shrine is now located. Mother Seton became the first American-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
9. Emma Lazarus
   Emma Lazarus
   Lazarus began to be more interested in her Jewish ancestry after reading the George Eliot novel, Daniel Deronda, and as she heard of the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s. This led Lazarus to write articles on the subject. She also began translating the works of Jewish poets into English...
   
   
   • Address: Home 18 West 10th Street
   • Also see: Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island
   • More Information: The Statue of Liberty
     Statue of Liberty
     The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886...
     
      was said to be modeled after the Mother of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus," which is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, includes the famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Lazarus is honored with a street sign, Emma Lazarus Place, near this site where she lived. She is also remembered by a plaque at the northwest end of Battery Park which was donated in 1955 by the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations.
10. Annie Moore
    • Address: Ellis Island
    • More Information: The Annie Moore Statue on Ellis Island represents those who came to America looking for a better life. From 1892 to 1954, twelve million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island. More than a hundred million Americans can claim ancestors who came through Ellis Island. There were many Annie Moores and it took historians some time to correctly match the statue with the right biography of the immigrant she represents.
11. Billie Jean King
    Billie Jean King
    Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...
    
    
    • Address: 26 Broadway
    • More Information: The Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center, honoring the tennis champion and women's rights activist, will opened in Lower Manhattan in 2008 as part of The Sports Museum of America.
12. Gertrude Ederle
    Gertrude Ederle
    Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Gertrude Ederle was the daughter of a German immigrant who ran a butcher shop on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan; she was born in New York City. She was known as...
    
    
    • Address: Broadway near Beaver Street
    • More Information: On August 27, 1926, Gertrude Ederle received a ticker tape parade to celebrate her accomplishment of becoming the first woman to swim the English Channel.
13. Amelia Earhart
    Amelia Earhart
    Amelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...
    
    
    • Address: Broadway near Morris Street
    • More Information: Pilot Amelia Earhart was honored by two New York City ticker tape parades, the last being on June 20, 1932 to mark her achievement of the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman. Earhart said: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
14. Althea Gibson
    Althea Gibson
    Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier...
    
    
    • Address: Broadway near Liberty Street
    • More Information: Althea Gibson, the first African-American to win a Wimbledon singles championship, became the first tennis player to be given a ticker tape parade by the City of New York on July 11, 1957 to honor her achievement. Gibson said: "I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have identity. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy."
15. Women's eNews
    Women's eNews
    Women's eNews is a nonprofit online news service based in New York City. It publishes international news articles specializing in coverage of women's lives.- History :...
    
    
    • Address: 6 Barclay Street
    • More Information: Women's eNews, launched as an independent, international media outlet on January 1, 2002, is a primary source of news of particular concern to women and also provides women's perspectives on public policy issues. Founder and Editor-in-chief Rita Henley Jensen leads this nonprofit, Internet-based news service.
16. Mary Church Terrell
    Mary Church Terrell
    Mary Church Terrell , daughter of former slaves, was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She became an activist who led several important associations and worked for civil rights and suffrage....
    
     and the National Association of Colored Women
    • Address: 9 Murray Street
    • More Information: Founded in 1896, the National Association of Colored Women worked for women's equality and helped women find employment. Mary Church Terrell, the Association's first National President, also played an important role in the fight for woman suffrage.
17. Diana Reyna
    Diana Reyna
    Diana Reyna is currently the New York City Council Member who represents the 34th Council District, which includes Williamsburg and Bushwick as well as Ridgewood in Queens, USA. Council Member Reyna was born and raised in New York City...
    
    
    • Address: Office 250 Broadway
    • More Information: New York City Council Member Diana Reyna was selected by the voters in 2001, thus becoming the first woman of Dominican heritage elected in New York City.
18. Carol Bellamy
    Carol Bellamy
    Carol Bellamy has been Director of the Peace Corps, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund , and President and CEO of World Learning. In April, 2009, Bellamy was appointed as Chair of the International Baccalaureate Board of Governors...
    
    
    • Address: Office City Hall
    • More Information: Carol Bellamy was the first woman elected to citywide office in New York City when she became City Council President in 1977. After changes in the City Charter, the City Council President's position became known as Public Advocate.
19. Christine Quinn
    • Address: Office City Hall
    • More Information: Christine Quinn became the first woman, first openly Gay and first Irish- American Speaker of the New York City Council in January 2006.
20. Marie Sklowdowska Curie
    Marie Curie
    Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
    
    
    • Address: City Hall Park
    • More Information: Marie Sklodowska Curie, scientist and winner of two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911), was honored by a stone in City Hall Park dedicated on November 7, 1934 on the 67th anniversary of her birth and donated by the Polish American Children of New York City. Marie Curie had died on July 4, 1934 of a blood disease which resulted from exposure during her research to large amounts of radiation.
21. Jane Addams
    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace...
    
    
    • Address: City Hall Park
    • More Information: Jane Addams, leader of the settlement house movement and, in 1931, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace prize, was honored by a stone in City Hall Park dedicated on Sept. 6, 1935. The stone was donated by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to commemorate the 75th birthday of its founder.
22. African Burial Ground National Monument
    African Burial Ground National Monument
    African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way in Lower Manhattan preserves a site containing the remains of more than 400 Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries. Historians estimate there may have been 15,000-20,000 burials there...
    
    
    • Address: corner of Elk and Duane Streets
    • More Information: It is estimated that 15,000 – 20,000 enslaved Africans were buried in the area around where City Hall now stands. In 1991, that cemetery was discovered, becoming one of America's most significant archeological finds of the 20th Century. In 2007, the African Burial Ground National Monument was dedicated. It is estimated that 40% of the adults buried there were women.
23. Constance Baker Motley
    Constance Baker Motley
    Constance Baker Motley was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and President of Manhattan, New York City.-Early Life and Academics:...
    
    
    • Address: Office Municipal Building 1 Centre Street
    • More Information: Constance Baker Motley became the first woman Borough President of Manhattan in 1965. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate (1964), the first African-American woman judge on the federal bench (Southern District of New York, 1966), and the first African-American woman to serve as Chief Judge (1982).
24. Elizabeth Holtzman
    Elizabeth Holtzman
    Elizabeth Holtzman is an American lawyer and former Democratic politician, pioneer woman officeholder, four term U.S. Representative , two term District Attorney of Kings County , and New York City Comptroller .Her role on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal drew national...
    
    
    • Address: Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street
    • More Information: Elizabeth Holtzman became the first woman Comptroller of New York City in 1990. She was also the youngest woman elected to Congress (1973) and the first woman to serve as Brooklyn's District Attorney.
25. Maya Lin
    Maya Lin
    Maya Ying Lin is an American artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Personal life:...
    
    
    • Address: United States Courthouse, Foley Square
    • More Information: In 1996, architect and sculptor Maya Lin created "Sounding Stones," four sequentially placed granite blocks, which mark the Worth and Pearl Street entrances to the United States Courthouse.
26. Jane Bolin
    Jane Bolin
    Jane Matilda Bolin LL.B. was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the city's law department...
    
    
    • Address: Domestic Relations Court, 60 Lafayette Street
    • More Information: Jane Bolin was the first African-American woman in the United States to serve as a judge. On July 22, 1939, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed her to serve on the New York City Domestic Relations Court, later renamed Family Court.
27. Doris Ling-Cohan
    Doris Ling-Cohan
    Doris Ling-Cohan is a judge on the New York State Supreme Court, to which she was elected in 2002. Ling-Cohan was born in New York's Chinatown, the daughter of Chinese immigrants.-Education:...
    
    
    • Address: New York Supreme Court 60 Centre Street
    • More Information: First elected to the New York Supreme Court in 2002, Doris Ling-Cohan, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is the first Asian-American woman to serve as a Justice.
28. Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she...
    
    
    • Address: 340-344 Broadway
    • More Information: On September 7, 1853, at a Woman's Rights Convention at the now demolished Broadway Tabernacle, abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth silenced hecklers by saying: "But we'll have our rights; see if we don't. And you can't stop us from them; see if you can. You may hiss as much as you like, but it is coming. Women don't get half as much rights as they ought to. We want more and we will have it."
29. Underground Railroad Station
    Underground Railroad
    The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...
    
    
    • Address: 36 Lispenard Street
    • More Information: The Underground Railroad Station at 36 Lispenard Street (plaque), one of the stops on the escape route to freedom, was where many found help from the New York City abolitionist community. Women comprised a major part of the abolitionist movement.
30. Catherine Ferguson
    Catherine Ferguson (educator)
    Catherine "Katy" Ferguson was an African American pioneer, philanthropist, social worker and educator who founded the first Sunday school in New York City.-Early life:...
    
    
    • Address: School 51 Warren Street
    • Also see: Home 74 Thompson Street
    • More Information: Catherine Ferguson, a former slave, established an interracial Sunday school for poor and neglected children around 1793. Ferguson provided for the children with money she earned from baking cakes.
31. Women's Committee of the Gee How Oak Tin Association
    • Address: 62-64 Bayard Street
    • More Information: The Women's Committee of the Gee How Oak Tin Association was organized by Margaret Chin
      Margaret Chin
      Margaret Chin is a New York City-based American politician. A Democrat, she was elected to the New York City Council on November 3, 2009, to represent District 1 in Lower Manhattan, which includes, amongst other neighborhoods and sites, Chinatown, the Financial District, City Hall, and the site...
      
       in Chinatown in March 2002. While the Association itself was formed in the 1920s, women who are daughters of Chin, Woo and Yuan families were only allowed to join the Association and vote in 2002 when the Women's Committee was formed.
32. Lillian Wald
    Lillian Wald
    Lillian D. Wald was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing...
    
    
    • Address: Settlement 263-267 Henry Street
    • Also see: Playground at Cherry, Gouverneur, Monroe and Montgomery Playground Madison, E 130th and 131st
    • More Information: In 1893, social reformer Lillian Wald pioneered the concept of public health nursing for the poor when she created what would become the Visiting Nurse Service of New York
      Visiting Nurse Service of New York
      Visiting Nurse Service of New York is the largest and oldest not-for-profit home health care provider in the United States.Lillian Wald, the founder of VNSNY, began making home nursing visits in 1893....
      
       and in 1895 she founded the Henry Street Settlement to serve the community. Two Manhattan playgrounds have been named for Lillian Wald.
33. Nydia Velazquez
    Nydia Velázquez
    Nydia Margarita Velázquez is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes residential areas of three boroughs...
    
    
    • Address: Office 173 Avenue B
    • More Information: In 1992, Nydia Velazquez became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. The 12th Congressional District, which she represents, includes the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
34. Dorothy Day
    Dorothy Day
    Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...
    
    
    • Address: 55 East Third Street
    • More Information: Peace and social justice activist Dorothy Day's home, Maryhouse, was at 55 East Third Street.
35. Pat Eng & New York Asian Women's Center
    • Address: 39 Bowery, PMB 375
    • More Information: The New York Asian Women's Center was founded in 1982 by women who recognized that Asian immigrant women had nowhere to turn when faced with domestic violence. Led by Founding Executive Director, Pat Eng, NYAWC was the first Asian organization in the city to include the word "women" in its name.
36. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
    Elizabeth Blackwell
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female doctor in the United States and the first on the UK Medical Register...
    
    
    • Address: Infirmary 64 Bleecker Street
    • More Information: In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree (Geneva Medical College). On May 12, 1857, the 37th Birthday of her friend Florence Nightingale, she opened the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children (the first hospital staffed by women serving women) with her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. In 1868, she founded the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary to train other women. Blackwell said: "For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
37. Eve Addams' Tea Room
    • Address: 129 MacDougal Street
    • More Information: New York City's first Lesbian bar was said to be Eve Addams' Tea Room, founded in 1925.
38. Susan Glaspell
    Susan Glaspell
    Susan Keating Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States...
    
    
    • Address: 133 MacDougal Street
    • More Information: Pulitzer Prize winning writer Susan Glaspell's plays were presented at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre starting in 1927 as well as the Provincetown Playhouse.
39. Barbara Gittings
    Barbara Gittings
    Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that...
    
     & Daughters of Bilitis
    Daughters of Bilitis
    The Daughters of Bilitis , was the first lesbian rights organization in the United States. It was formed in San Francisco in 1955, conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars, which were considered illegal and thus subject to raids and police harassment...
    
    
    • Address: 30 Charleton Street
    • More Information: The New York City Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, a Lesbian Rights group, was organized in 1958 by Barbara Gittings and others.
40. Berenice Abbott
    Berenice Abbott
    Berenice Abbott , born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.-Youth:...
    
    
    • Address: 50 Commerce Street
    • More Information: Photographer Berenice Abbott lived with Elizabeth McCausland. Abbott's landmark photo collection, Changing New York, appeared in 1939. Abbott wrote, "The tempo of the metropolis is not of eternity, nor even time, but of the vanishing instant."
41. Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...
    
    
    • Address: 75 ½ Bedford Street
    • More Information: In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Family lore has it that Millay was named after St. Vincent's Hospital because the life of her Mother's brother was saved by the medical staff there. Millay wrote: "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light!"
42. Willa Cather
    Willa Cather
    Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...
    
    
    • Address: Plaque 5 Bank Street
    • More Information: Writer Willa Cather lived with Edith Lewis at several locations in the West Village over the years, and there is also a plaque dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
43. Diane Arbus
    Diane Arbus
    Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
    
    
    • Address: 55 Bethune Street
    • More Information: Photographer Diane Arbus committed suicide at her Westbeth apartment in July 1971. Arbus said: "Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize."
44. Jane Jacobs
    Jane Jacobs
    Jane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...
    
    
    • Address: 555 Hudson Street
    • More Information: Author and activist Jane Jacobs lived at 555 Hudson Street. Her 1961 landmark book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," literally and figuratively changed the landscape of urban America.
45. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
    Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
    Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City...
    
     and Julianna Force
    • Address: 8 West 8th Street
    • More Information: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Julianna Force created the Whitney Museum of American Art with Whitney as the sculptor and art patron and Force as the Museum Director. Its first location is now the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
46. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history...
    
    
47. Frances Perkins
    Frances Perkins
    Frances Perkins , born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition...
    
    
    • Address: 23-29 Washington Place at Greene Street
    • More Information: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 women and girls on Saturday, March 25, 1911, just before closing time. Most of the stairway exits were locked or jammed as workers tried to flee the fire which engulfed the top three floors of the building. This tragedy, and the public outcry after it, forced government leaders to propose new worker safety measures. The owners of the Triangle Company were never held responsible for the deaths of the workers or the injuries to those who survived. Witnessing the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 made Frances Perkins rededicate her life to improving working conditions for all people. Perkins became the first woman cabinet member when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed her as Secretary of Labor in 1933. Perkins said: "The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats."
48. Bella Abzug
    Bella Abzug
    Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus...
    
    
    • Address: 2 Fifth Avenue
    • More Information: Congresswoman Bella Abzug, whose legislation made possible the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. Abzug said: "No matter how steep the passage and discouraging the pace, I ask you never to give in and never give up."
49. Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
    
    
    • Address: Apt 20 East 11th Street
    • More Information: Eleanor Roosevelt's apartment was in a building owned by her friends Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read; a plaque is on the building. Born in New York City on October 11, 1884, Roosevelt had a number of residences throughout the years, but the apartment on East 11th Street may have been her favorite. First Lady and United States Delegate to the United Nations, Roosevelt was the person most responsible for the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual persons; the neighborhood…the school…the factory, farm or office…Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
50. Eva Le Gallienne
    Eva Le Gallienne
    Eva Le Gallienne was a well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century.-Early life and early career:...
    
    
    • Address: Theater 105 West 14th Street
    • Also see: Home 224 West 11th Street
    • More Information: In 1926, actor and director Eva Le Gallienne created the Civic Repertory Theatre and thereby launched the off-Broadway movement to present repertory theatre to those who could not afford Broadway prices. Le Gallienne shared a home with Civic Rep member Josephine Hutchinson.
51. Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood...
    
    
    • Address: Clinic 17 West 16th Street
    • Also see: American Birth Control League 104 Fifth Avenue; Margaret Sanger Square 26 Bleecker Street
    • More Information: Margaret Sanger's residence and the office of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau were at 17 West 16th Street. The office of the American Birth Control League was at 104 Fifth Avenue. Margaret Sanger Square is the present home of Planned Parenthood of New York City. Sanger wrote: "The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom…No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."
52. Harriot Stanton Blatch
    • Address: Office 32 Union Square
    • More Information: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, carried on her Mother's fight for equality. Blatch was one of the leaders of the woman suffrage campaign in New York State and worked for the vote.
53. Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
    
    
    • Address: Biograph Film Company 11 East 14th Street
    • Also see: Home 270 Riverside Drive
    • More Information: Mary Pickford became a movie star with the Biograph Film Company; she lived at 270 Riverside Drive at 99th Street. She went on to be one of the most influential businesswomen of her time.
54. Deborah Glick
    Deborah Glick
    Deborah J. Glick is an American politician from New York and a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 66th Assembly District in lower Manhattan....
    
    
    • Address: Office 853 Broadway
    • More Information: In 1990, Deborah Glick was elected as the first openly Lesbian or Gay member of the New York State Legislature.
55. Emma Goldman
    Emma Goldman
    Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
    
    
    • Address: 210 East 13th Street
    • More Information: Anarchist Emma Goldman's residence was where, starting in 1906, she published the magazine, Mother Earth (plaque on building). Goldman was deported from the United States (Ellis Island
      Ellis Island
      Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. It was the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the...
      
      ) to the Soviet Union aboard the S.S. Buford on December 21, 1919.
56. St. Maria Frances Cabrini
    • Address: Cabrini Medical Center 227 East 19th Street
    • More Information: Francesca S. Cabrini, who in 1946 became the first naturalized American to be canonized, relocated to New York City in 1889 to minister to the growing number of impoverished immigrants. In 1892, she established a small hospital which eventually grew into the Cabrini Medical Center.
57. Women's Trade Union League
    Women's Trade Union League
    The Women's Trade Union League was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions...
    
    
    • Address: Office 43 East 22nd Street
    • More Information: The Women's Trade Union League, founded in 1903, included women workers and their middle-class allies. The League investigated women's working conditions and promoted the creation of women's trade unions.
58. Elizabeth Phelps & National Woman Suffrage Association
    • Address: 49 East 23rd Street
    • More Information: A house purchased by Elizabeth Phelps
      Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
      Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets.- Biography :...
      
       became known as the "Women's Bureau" because so many women's groups met at that location. In 1869, The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed there and also in 1869, Susan B. Anthony, who devoted her life to the fight for women's equality, moved the office of The Revolution to the first floor of the "Women's Bureau."
59. Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
    Louis Comfort Tiffany
    Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau  and Aesthetic movements...
    
    
    • Address: 102 East 25th Street
    • More Information: In 1892 and the years that followed, Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls worked at Tiffany Studios designing, cutting and making Tiffany lamps, windows, mosaics, enamels and ceramics.
60. Caterina Jarboro
    Caterina Jarboro
    Caterina Jarboro was a pioneering African American opera singer. In 1933 — twenty-two full years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera — impresario Alfredo Salmaggi hired Jarboro to sing with his opera company at the Hippodrome. She was thus the first black opera singer ever to...
    
    
    • Address: New York Hippodrome 756 Sixth Avenue
    • More Information: In 1933, twenty-two years before Marian Anderson's debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Caterina Jarboro, the daughter of a Native American Mother and an African-American Father, made her New York City debut when the Chicago Opera Company appeared at the New York Hippodrome.
61. Ladies' Mile Historic District
    Ladies' Mile Historic District
    The Ladies' Mile Historic District was designated in May 1989, by the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission to preserve an irregular district of 440 buildings on 28 blocks and parts of blocks in Manhattan, from roughly 18th Street to 24th Street and from Park Avenue South to west of the...
    
    
    • Address: Broadway from 8th to 23rd Streets
    • More Information: New York City has honored the shopping that women do with the designation of the Ladies' Mile Historic District on Broadway from 8th to 23rd Streets. The sign marking the District is at Broadway and 23rd Street.
62. Audre Lorde
    Audre Lorde
    Audre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
    
    
    • Address: Callen-Lorde Community Health Center 356 West 18th Street
    • More Information: Poet Audre Lorde, the daughter of Grenadian immigrants, was born in New York City in 1934. Her writing documented everything from the fight against racism, sexism and homophobia to her battle with breast cancer. She was designated as New York State's Poet Laureate in 1991. Lorde died in 1992 and the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center honors her memory.
63. Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.- Early life and marriage:...
    
    
    • Address: childhood home 14 West 23rd Street
    • More Information: Author Edith Wharton's childhood home was at 14 West 23rd Street. In 1921, Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence, won a Pulitzer Prize.
64. Women's City Club of New York
    • Address: 307 Seventh Avenue
    • More Information: The Women's City Club of New York was founded in 1915 before women had the right to vote. Since its beginnings, the Women's City Club has focused on getting women involved in the political process through policy debates on issues that affect their lives.
65. Carrie Chapman Catt
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    Carrie Chapman Catt was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920...
    
     & National American Woman Suffrage Association
    National American Woman Suffrage Association
    The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association...
    
    
    • Address: 171 Madison Avenue
    • More Information: Carrie Chapman Catt and others led the fight for votes for women in the New York Headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; the editorial office of the publication "The Woman Citizen" was also at that location. Catt wrote about the long battle for the vote: "Hundreds of women gave the accumulated possibilities of an entire lifetime, thousands gave years of their lives, hundreds of thousands gave constant interest and such aid as they could. It was a continuous, seemingly endless, chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the last links of that chain were not born when it began. Old suffragists who forged the first links were dead when it ended."
66. Mary Lindley Murray
    Mary Lindley Murray
    Mary Lindley Murray is known in American Revolutionary folklore as the Quaker woman who held up British General William Howe after the British victory against American forces at Kips Bay...
    
    
    • Address: Plaque Park and 37th Ave
    • Also see: Home 16 Park Avenue
    • More Information: In 1776, hostess Mary Lindley Murray entertained British officers at her home long enough for the American troops to escape. A stone was dedicated at Park Avenue and 37th Street in 1903 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to mark Murray's service to her country.
67. Gloria Steinem
    Gloria Steinem
    Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s...
    
     & Ms. Magazine
    Ms. magazine
    Ms. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
    
    
    • Address: 370 Lexington Avenue
    • More Information: Gloria Steinem and co-workers created Ms. Magazine in 1971 when it first appeared as an insert in the December issue of New York Magazine. The first independent issue of Ms. was published in Spring 1972 by Majority Enterprises, Inc. Steinem said: "Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
68. Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
    
    
    • Address: Victory Party East 42nd and Lexington Avenue
    • More Information: Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected as New York's first woman United States Senator on November 7, 2000; her election night victory party was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
69. Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
    
    
    • Address: Bryant Park, West 42nd between 5th and 6th Avenues
    • More Information: Writer and poet Gertrude Stein's statue is in Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library.
70. Josephine Shaw Lowell
    Josephine Shaw Lowell
    Josephine Shaw Lowell was a Progressive Reform leader in the United States in the Nineteenth century. She is best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890.-Early years:...
    
    
    • Address: Bryant Park, 6th Avenue between 40th and 41st streets
    • More Information: There is a Memorial Fountain honoring social worker Josephine Shaw Lowell in Bryant Park; it was dedicated on May 21, 1912. She was the first woman honored by a monument in NYC.
71. New York Liberty Basketball
    New York Liberty
    The New York Liberty is a professional basketball team based in New York City, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was one of the eight original franchises of the league...
    
    
    • Address: Madison Square Garden 7th Avenue btwn West 31st and 33rd Streets
    • More Information: The first home game of the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was played at Madison Square Garden on June 29, 1997. The Liberty defeated Phoenix 65-57before a crowd of 17,780 women's basketball fans.
72. Ana Oliveira & the New York Women's Foundation
    • Address: 434 West 33rd Street
    • More Information: The New York Women's Foundation was established in 1987 as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation's vision combines hands-on philanthropy with community-driven projects addressing the needs of low-income women and girls. The New York Women's Foundation is led by President and CEO Ana Oliveira.
73. Golda Meir
    Golda Meir
    Golda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....
    
    
    • Address: 1411 Broadway at 39th Street
    • More Information: Golda Meir, the former leader of Israel, was honored with a statue at Golda Meir Square near the entrance to 1411 Broadway.
74. League for Political Education
    • Address: Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street
    • More Information: Town Hall was founded by members of the League for Political Education: Eleanor Butler Sanders, Lee Wood Haggin, Catherine Abbe, Laura Day, Adele M. Fielde and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. The League, a pro-woman suffrage group, wanted to create a meeting space to help educate people on important issues. Town Hall opened in January 1921, a few months after the 19th "Votes for Women" Amendment to the Constitution had been ratified on August 26, 1920.
75. Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles....
    
    
    • Address: Algonquin Round Table 59 West 44th Street
    • More Information: Author and poet Dorothy Parker became famous for her wit in discussions at the Algonquin Round Table (Algonquin Hotel). Parker wrote: "By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying – Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying."
76. Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays...
    
    
    • Address: Ethel Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street
    • More Information: On March 11, 1959, "A Raisin in the Sun" by playwright Lorraine Hansberry opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. It was the first play by a Black woman ever to appear on Broadway.
77. Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award...
    
    
    • Address: Winter Garden Theater 1634 Broadway
    • More Information: Broadway legend Chita Rivera rocketed to stardom in 1957 when West Side Story opened on September 26 at the Winter Garden Theater.
78. Phylicia Rashad
    Phylicia Rashad
    Phylicia Rashād is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show....
    
    
    • Address: Radio City Music Hall Avenue of the Americas at 49th Street
    • More Information: On June 6, 2004 at the Tony Award Ceremonies held in Radio City Music Hall, the Tony Award for leading actress in a play went to Phylicia Rashad. She was the first African-American woman to win that award.
79. Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
    
    
    • Address: Random House 1745 Broadway
    • More Information: Author Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993), worked for twenty years as a senior editor at the New York City Headquarters of Random House. Morrison said: "My work requires me to think about how free I can be as an African-American woman writer in my genderized, sexualized, wholly racialized world."
80. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
    Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
    Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, , was a prominent socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family...
    
    , Lillie P. Bliss
    Lillie P. Bliss
    Lillie P. Bliss was an American art collector and patron. At the beginning of the 20th century, she was one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York...
    
     and Mary Quinn Sullivan
    Mary Quinn Sullivan
    Mary Quinn Sullivan was born Mary Josephine Quinn in Indianapolis, Indiana to Thomas F. Quinn and Anne E...
    
    
    • Address: 11 West 53rd Street
    • More Information: The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan.
81. Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
    
    
82. Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
    
    
    • Addresses: 244 East 49th Street and 450 East 52nd Street
    • More Information: Film icons Katharine Hepburn and Greta Garbo made New York City home for most of their lives; Hepburn's townhouse was 244 East 49th Street and Garbo lived on the fifth floor of 450 East 52nd Street. Katharine Hepburn Garden at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza was dedicated on May 12, 1997.
83. Georgia O'Keeffe
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
    
    
    • Address: 525 Lexington Avenue
    • More Information: Artist Georgia O'Keeffe lived in a 2-room suite on the 28th floor of the Shelton Hotel. O'Keefe painted many of her New York City scenes from this location. O'Keeffe said: "One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt."
84. Muriel Siebert
    Muriel Siebert
    Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, , and known as "The First Woman of Finance", was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to head one of its member firms. Her struggle to obtain that seat – and join the 1365 male members of the exchange – culminated...
    
    
    • Address: Muriel Siebert and Company 885 Third Avenue
    • More Information: Muriel Siebert, who in 1967 became the first woman to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, today runs the woman-owned brokerage firm, Muriel Siebert and Company.
85. Martha Graham
    Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
    
    
    • Address: Studio 316 East 63rd Street
    • Also see: Home 430 east 63rd Street
    • More Information: Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham helped create the modern dance movement and ran a Studio and School of Contemporary Dance.
86. Sara Delano Roosevelt
    • Address: 47-49 East 65th Street
    • Also see: Park at Chrystie Street
    • More Information: The Sara Delano Roosevelt House is at 47 - 49 East 65 Street and a park named for the mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on the Lower East Side at Chrystie Street.
87. Rosalyn Yalow
    • Address: Hunter College
      Hunter College
      Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
      
       East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
    • More Information: In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. She graduated from Hunter College at East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue in 1941.
88. Pura Belpre
    Pura Belpré
    Pura Belpré was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City. She was also a writer, collector of folktales, and puppeteer. There is some dispute as to the date of her birth which has been given as February 2, 1899, December 2, 1901 and February 2, 1903.- Education :She was born in Cidra,...
    
    
    • Address: Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
    • More Information: Pura Belpre, was the first Puerto Rican librarian in the New York Public Library system. Through her work, the Library's 115th Street branch became a cultural center for the Latino residents of New York City. Belpre was also an author and folklorist. Archives containing her work can be found at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
89. Geraldine Ferraro
    Geraldine Ferraro
    Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party....
    
    
    • Address: Marymount College 221 East 71st Street
    • More Information: In 1984, Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman in United States history nominated to the Presidential ticket of a major political party. Democratic Party Presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected Ferraro to be his Vice President on July 12, 1984. Geraldine Ferraro graduated in 1956 with a B.A. from Marymount College.
90. Louise Elder Havemeyer
    Louisine Havemeyer
    Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer was an art collector, feminist, and philanthropist. In addition to being a patron of impressionist art, she was one of the more prominent contributors to the suffrage movement in the United States...
    
    
    • Address: Metropolitan Museum of Art
      Metropolitan Museum of Art
      The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
      
       5th Avenue and 81st Street
    • More Information: At her death in 1929, suffragist and art collector Louise Elder Havemeyer donated her vast collection of impressionist art, collected under the guidance of painter Mary Cassatt
      Mary Cassatt
      Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
      
      , to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This donation moved the museum to the forefront of the art world.
91. Julia de Burgos
    Julia de Burgos
    Julia Constancia Burgos García is considered by many as the greatest poet to have been born in Puerto Rico, and along with Gabriela Mistral, is considered as one of the greatest female poets of Latin America...
    
    
    • Address: Mosaic 106th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue
    • More Information: Julia de Burgos Boulevard runs on East 106th Street from Fifth to First Avenues and a mosaic portrait of the poet is located at 106th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. Born in Puerto Rico in 1914, Julia de Burgos also worked as a journalist in New York City, but it is her poems which continue to attract new generations of readers.
92. Brenda Berkman
    • Address: Randall's Island FDNY Training Academy
    • More Information: Thanks to a successful lawsuit by Brenda Berkman initiated in 1978, the New York City Fire Department
      New York City Fire Department
      The New York City Fire Department or the Fire Department of the City of New York has the responsibility for protecting the citizens and property of New York City's five boroughs from fires and fire hazards, providing emergency medical services, technical rescue as well as providing first response...
      
       had to open its doors to women firefighters. Berkman and 40 other women entered the FDNY Training Academy on Randall's Island in 1982.
93. Statues of Fictitious Female Characters
    • Address: Central Park
      Central Park
      Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
      
      
    • More Information: In New York City, statues represent Mother Goose
      Mother Goose
      The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom...
      
       (1938; Central Park), Alice in Wonderland (1959; Central Park) and Juliet
      Juliet Capulet
      Juliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....
      
       (with Romeo, of course, 1977; Central Park), but few real women are so honored.
94. Emma Stebbins
    Emma Stebbins
    Emma Stebbins was among the first notable American woman sculptors.- Career :Born and raised in a wealthy New York family, Stebbins was encouraged by her family in her pursuit of art from an early age. In 1857, sponsored by her brother Col. Henry G...
    
    
    • Address: Central Park
    • More Information: Emma Stebbins' sculpture, Angel of the Waters Statue, at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park was dedicated on May 31, 1873. Stebbins was the first woman artist to receive a commission for a major work in New York City.
95. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
    
    
    • Address: Central Park Reservoir
    • More Information: In 1994, the Central Park Reservoir was renamed in honor of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Signs were unveiled in 2003 in recognition of her appreciation of Central Park and the city that surrounds it.
96. Betty Friedan
    Betty Friedan
    Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist.A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century...
    
    
    • Address: 72nd Street and Central Park West
    • More Information: Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique in 1963 and one of the founders of the National Organization for Women in 1966, lived for a time at The Dakota apartment building. Friedan wrote: "The problem that has no name – which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities – is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease…Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?"
97. Maria Tallchief
    Maria Tallchief
    Maria Tallchief was the first native-American prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.-Early life:...
    
    
    • Address: New York City Ballet 20 Lincoln Center
    • More Information: Maria Tallchief, a Native American, became a prima ballerina with the New York City Ballet and performed on and off there from 1948 to 1965. The New York City Ballet's home was the City Center for Music and Dance during most of that period. Since 1964, the NYCB has been located at the New York State Theater.
98. Tania Leon
    Tania Leon
    Tania León is a Cuban composer and conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations.-León's Music:...
    
    
    • Address: New York Philharmonic 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
    • More Information: Internationally known composer and conductor Tania Leon worked from 1993-97 as New Music Advisor with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall.
99. Barbara Walters
    Barbara Walters
    Barbara Jill Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows , the television newsmagazine , former co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, and current contributor to ABC News.Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news...
    
    
    • Address: ABC News 7 West 66th Street
    • More Information: Barbara Walters joined ABC News in 1976 as the first woman to co-host the network news. Prior to joining ABC, she appeared on NBC's Today Show for 15 years. NBC only officially designated her as the program's first woman co-host in 1974. In 1964, Marlene Sanders became the first woman to anchor a nightly newscast for a major network, ABC, when the male anchor lost his voice and Sanders replaced him for an evening.
100. Eleanor Roosevelt
     Eleanor Roosevelt
     Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
     
     
     • Address: Statue Riverside Park at West 72nd Street
     • Also see: 20 East 11th Street
     • More Information: Eleanor Roosevelt's statue is in Riverside Park in the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Plaza. It was dedicated on October 5, 1996 and donated by the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund.
101. Margaret Mead
     Margaret Mead
     Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
     
     
     • Address: Theodore Roosevelt Park, Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street
     • More Information: Margaret Mead Green in the northwestern section of Theodore Roosevelt Park and the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples honor the anthropologist and author who, in 1964, was promoted to curator at the Museum of Natural History.
102. Diana Ross
     Diana Ross
     Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
     
     
     • Address: Playground Central Park West and 81st Street
     • More Information: Singer Diana Ross is honored with a children's playground in her name.
103. Billie Holiday
     Billie Holiday
     Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
     
     
     • Address: Home 26 West 87th Street
     • More Information: The home of singer Billie Holiday was at 26 West 87th Street.
104. Lesbian Herstory Archives
     • Address: 215 West 92nd Street
     • More Information: The Lesbian Herstory Archives was founded in the spring of 1974 by Joan Nestle
       Joan Nestle
       Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her...
       
        and Deborah Edel in their apartment.
105. Joan of Arc
     Joan of Arc
     Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
     
     
     • Address: Statue Riverside Drive and West 93rd Street
     • More Information: The Joan of Arc statue by Anna Hyatt was dedicated on December 6, 1915 and donated by the Joan of Arc Statue Committee.
106. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
     Elizabeth Cady Stanton
     Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...
     
     
     • Address: 250 West 94th Street
     • More Information: The apartment where women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902 has been renamed in Stanton's honor and a plaque appears near the entrance. Stanton led the organizing effort for the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention which launched the fight for women's equality in the United States. Stanton said of her partnership with Susan B. Anthony: "So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness – united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, differences, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable."
107. Marian Anderson
     Marian Anderson
     Marian Anderson was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century...
     
     
     • Address: Home 1200 Fifth Avenue and 101st Street
     • More Information: Marian Anderson's home, where she lived from 1958–1975, is marked with a plaque. On January 7, 1955, she became the first African-American singer to perform as a member of the Metropolitan Opera. The opera was Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. Anderson said: "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
108. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
     Ruth Bader Ginsburg
     Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.She is generally viewed as belonging to...
     
     
     • Address: Columbia Law School 435 West 116th Street
     • More Information: Prior to her appointment to the United States Court of Appeals in 1980 and to the United States Supreme Court in 1993, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1972. That same year, Professor Ginsburg became the first woman to receive tenure at Columbia Law School.
109. Chien-Shiung Wu
     Chien-Shiung Wu
     Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project...
     
     
     • Address: Columbia University 2960 Broadway at 116th Street
     • More Information: Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering physicist who, through her research and teaching, helped change the accepted view of the structure of the Universe. She became a full professor at Columbia University in 1958.
110. Zora Neale Hurston
     Zora Neale Hurston
     Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance...
     
     
     • Address: Barnard College 3009 Broadway at 117th Street
     • More Information: In 1928, writer, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston became the first African-American woman to graduate Barnard College. Hurston said: "Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
111. Shirley Chisholm
     Shirley Chisholm
     Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress...
     
     
     • Address: Teachers College 525 West 120th Street
     • More Information: In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress; she served in the House of Representatives from 1969-1983. In 1972, Chisholm was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States, winning 151 delegates at the Democratic National Convention. In 1952 Chisholm received an M.A. from Columbia University. Shirley Chisholm said: "Of my two ‘handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black."
112. Harriet Tubman
     Harriet Tubman
     Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...
     
     
     • Address: Statue West 122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard
     • More Information: Harriet Tubman Square and a statue honor the woman who led over 300 slaves to freedom. Tubman never lost a passenger as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She said, "I had reasoned this out in my mind… two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive."
113. Betty Lee Sung
     • Address: City College of New York Convent Avenue between 131st and 141st Street
     • More Information: In 1967, author and historian Betty Lee Sung wrote "Mountain of Gold: The Story of the Chinese in America" and in 1970, she founded the Asian-American Studies Program at the City College of New York, one of the first such programs in the nation.
114. Sadie and Bessie Delany
     Bessie Delany
     Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her sister Sadie, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Delany earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Columbia...
     
     
     • Address: Office 2305 Seventh Avenue at 135th Street
     • More Information: In 1993, the oral history account of the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany became a bestselling book, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years." After Bessie Delany graduated from Columbia University on June 6, 1923, she shared a dental practice with her brother, Hap.
115. Ruby Dee
     Ruby Dee
     Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun and the film American Gangster for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Early years:Dee was born Ruby...
     
     
     • Address: 137th Street and 7th Avenue
     • More Information: Civil rights activist, actor and poet Ruby Dee's childhood home was the Ranceley apartment building. In a poem, Dee wrote: "Calling all sisters. Calling all righteous sisters. Calling all women. To steal away to our secret place. Have a meeting face to face. Look at the facts and determine our pace. Calling all women."
116. Florence Mills
     Florence Mills
     Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey , known as the "Queen of Happiness," was an African American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty.-Life and career:A daughter of former enslaved parents, Nellie and John...
     
     
     • Address: 220 West 135th Street
     • More Information: The Florence Mills House was the home of the entertainer who fought against racial inequality.
117. Madam C.J. Walker
     • Address: Countee Cullen Library 108-110 West 136th Street
     • More Information: The original site of Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse is now the Countee Cullen Library. In later years, her daughter, A'Lelia Walker, made the house a cultural salon during the Harlem Renaissance. Sarah Breedlove, later known as Madam C.J. Walker, is thought to be the first American woman self-made millionaire. She was also a philanthropist who donated money to groups working for racial equality. Madam Walker said: "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations… I have built my own factory on my own ground."
118. Ida B. Wells
     Ida B. Wells
     Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who...
     
     
     • Address: 230 West 136 Street
     • More Information: In 1892, Ida B. Wells came to New York City and began a national anti-lynching crusade as a writer for the newspaper New York Age. Unable to return to Memphis, Tennessee where the office of her newspaper, Free Speech, had been destroyed by a mob of white men, Wells lectured and organized anti-lynching societies in the North. Wells also worked for woman suffrage.
119. Margaret Corbin
     Margaret Corbin
     Margaret Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War On November 16, 1776, she and her husband, John Corbin, both from Philadelphia, along with some 600 American soldiers, were defending Fort Washington in northern Manhattan from 4,000 attacking Hessian troops under British...
     
     
     • Address: 190th Street and Fort Washington Avenue
     • More Information: The first American woman to take a soldier's part in the war for liberty in 1776, Margaret Corbin, is honored by a plaque. Margaret Corbin Circle, at the entrance and drive of Fort Tryon Park, also commemorates her Revolutionary War heroics.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer on the Map

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and his office developed the Women's Rights Historic Sites map in 2008 in the hope of providing "a brief introduction to some of the extraordinary women who have helped shape" New York City and the Nation.