The Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York (HOA) was a Jewish orphanage in New York City. It was founded in 1860 by the Hebrew Benevolent Society. It closed in 1941, after pedagogical research concluded that children thrive better in foster care or small group homes, rather than in large institutions. The successor organization is the JCCA, formerly called the Jewish Child Care Association.
WPA mural for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum by William Karp (1938)
Image: Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, Valentine's Manual (cropped)
Image: Bromley Manhattan and Bronx Plate 21 publ. 1879 (cropped)
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The City College of the City University of New York is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. It is the oldest of CUNY's 25 institutions of higher learning and is considered its flagship institution.
Harris Hall
Original St. Nicholas Terrace entrance to Shepard Hall, the main building of CCNY, in the early 1900s, on its new campus in Hamilton Heights, looking up and westward from St. Nicholas Avenue
View in 1876
Statue of General Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), second president of CCNY (1869–1903)