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Following Pike's death in 1864, his widow sold the mansion to William Steinway of Steinway & Sons in 1870. [3]In response to the tenuous labor situation in Manhattan and the violent New York City draft riots that had previously threatened his factory, Steinway expanded his Queens property to a massive 440 acres, [4] upon which he would build the Steinway Piano Factory and what would become ...
American AIDS activist, author and singer–songwriter. In 1983 he testified before the President's Commission on AIDS and before both houses of the United States Congress. With Joseph Sonnabend, he was co-founder of PWA Health Group and Community Research Initiative (now ACRIA) [59] [60] [61] Bobbi Campbell (1952–1984)
Peter Staley (born January 9, 1961) is an American political activist, known primarily for his work in HIV/AIDS activism.As an early and influential member of ACT UP, New York, he founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com. Staley is a primary figure in the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.
Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS is a book of photographs by Billy Howard, published in 1989 by Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas. The photographs are mostly portraits and depict persons infected with AIDS .
Besides using in-rem properties, the City received proposals by not-for-profits in order to house people with AIDS. This included, in one example, a conversion of a mansion into a facility to assist children with AIDS being housed with their parents, hospice care, and group residency within one property.
St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center (address 408 West 52nd Street) was featured in the 1985 motion picture "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins". Scenes were shot in some interior rooms and the front entrance, visible at approximately 12 minutes 35 seconds into the film.
A hardworking grandmother who perished in a weekend Queens house fire had just retired and was winning a tough battle against breast cancer, her grieving son said Monday. “She was definitely the ...
She was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1983 to 2011, sitting in the 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 194th, 195th, 196th, 197th, 198th, and 199th New York State Legislatures, where she was a prime sponsor of the Baby AIDS Bill, which requires all newborns to be tested for that disease. [4]