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On March 22, 1899, [5] the California State Legislature approved the creation of the San Francisco State Normal School, with an appropriation of $10,000. Frederic Lister Burk was appointed as the first president and chose the school's motto, Experientia Docet . [ 6 ]
In 1968 and 1969, the TWLF held the longest student strikes in American history at SF State College with the goal of having fifteen demands be met. [2] The college was founded in Fall 1969 to meet a portion of the demands. [3] In 2016, hundreds of students protested against budget cuts to the college and for the expansion of the college's ...
Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) – dance choreographer and activist [1]; Opal Palmer Adisa – artist, writer; Kim Anno (born 1958) – abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker, educator [2]
San Francisco State University's original campus was on Nob Hill, where it was established as the San Francisco State Normal School on Powell Street between Clay and Sacramento Streets. The 1906 earthquake and fire forced a relocation to Buchanan and Haight Streets, where the institution would remain for several decades. [ 77 ]
Victory Memorial was a not-for-profit, voluntary hospital. [1] Most of the hospital's "complex of dun-colored buildings at the southeastern edge of Bay Ridge" were built in 1927, [2] but they opened earlier in a single building at their 92nd Street/Seventh Avenue Brooklyn location.
The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line in New York City, owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway.It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation's Fremont Secondary (to the Hell Gate Bridge) at Glendale, Queens, with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Senator Street Historic District is a national historic district in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 40 contributing residential buildings (including two garages) built between 1906 and 1912. They are all three story brownstone rowhouses in the Neo-Renaissance style. The houses feature high stoops and full sized ...
The Flushing Bay Freight Spur was a freight-only spur that lead to a freight dock on Flushing Bay just west of the Flushing River delta. It began at the Whitestone Branch just north of the junction with the Port Washington Branch, then crossed a junction with a spur of the Woodside Branch leading to Great Neck Junction and the Central Branch, and a second junction with Woodside Branch that ...