Mitchel Square, a triangle formed by Broadway, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 167th Street, honors NYC mayor John Purroy Mitchel, known as the Boy Mayor because he was, and remains, the youngest man ever elected mayor of NYC at age 34 in 1913. Mitchel was born to a Catholic family in Fordham, Bronx in 1879, graduated […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/09/mitchel-square-washington-heights/
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