'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:' A Comparative Historical Analysis of West Indian Women Politicians in New York City and London

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Javen Fortner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis

Urban Ornithology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Buckley ◽  
Walter Sedwitz ◽  
William J. Norse ◽  
John Kieran
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
City Area ◽  
Analogous Data ◽  
Species Lists ◽  
Park Area ◽  
Gains And Losses

This book offers the first quantitative long-term historical analysis of the migratory, winter, and breeding avifaunas of any New York City natural area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan’s Central and Brooklyn’s Prospect Parks have published even lightly annotated cumulative species lists, last updated in 1967, and the most recent book addressing the birdlife of the New York City area was published more than 50 years ago. Addressed are the 301 Bronx, New York City and New York City area species known to have occurred within the study area, plus another 70 potential additions. These are contrasted with their status in adjacent Riverdale, the entire Bronx, Central and Prospect Parks, New York City, plus Long Island, Westchester, and Rockland Cos. The history of the 123 known study area breeding species are tracked from 1872—only 20 years after Audubon’s death in Manhattan—complemented by unique quantitative breeding data from Van Cortlandt Park censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are tracked and discussed as an expanding New York City inexorably extinguished unique habitat, offset only slightly by addition of two large reservoirs. Comparisons are provided with analogous data from heavily monitored Central and Prospect Parks. The tradeoffs in attempting to managing an urban park area for mass recreation at the same time as conserving its natural resources are highlighted.

**C225** Chap. 8.

2020 ◽  
pp. 405-416
Author(s):  
Richard J. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
West Indian ◽  
York Hospital ◽  
Old West ◽  
Medical Museum ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
Organic Lesions ◽  
Young Physicians

Barker explains that the Medical Museum (Philadelphia) and the Medical Repository (New York City) were rare books in Maine that could not conveniently be purchased by young physicians. Because he was known to have an unusually good personal library, Barker was asked to excerpt some of the most extraordinary cases of consumption from those journals. For example, a twenty-year-old West Indian seaman died at New York Hospital with a diagnosis of phthisis pulmonalis manifested by extreme emaciation, cough, catarrh, and fever. On dissection the lungs showed no adhesions, no traces of organic lesions, and no inflammation. The physician was of the opinion that phthisis pulmonalis was “not always attended with tubercles and ulcers,” and that death was due to another cause. He suggested that in some cases the disease yielded to calomel, symptoms disappeared, but the patient still died.

The Election of 1937 and Beyond

2019 ◽  
pp. 214-239
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
City Council ◽  
County Government ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
The City ◽  
Women Attorneys ◽  
Voting Method

The 1936 New York City charter reform introduced proportional representation (PR) as the voting method for electing the city council, the legislative body that replaced the old board of aldermen. Two local women politicians gained prominence in this period. One was Genevieve B. Earle, the first woman elected to that body in 1937. She served a total of twelve years on the council and, as minority leader, worked to modernize county government to make it more economical. The other was Anna M. Kross, a city magistrate who in 1938 ran for the state supreme court, a race she lost but which inspired other women attorneys to reach for higher political goals. The repeal of PR in 1947 limited New York City women’s political futures as city legislators.

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