Women's rights historic sites in New York City facts for kids

Women's Rights Historic Sites in New York City are special places in New York City that have important connections to the women's rights movement. In March 2008, the city government released a map showing 120 historic sites and monuments in Manhattan. This map helps people learn about the amazing women who helped shape the history of women's rights in the United States.

Discovering Women's History in Manhattan

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and his team created the Women's Rights Historic Sites map. They wanted to celebrate Women's History Month and introduce people to the "extraordinary women" who made a big difference in New York City's history. The map was designed by Pam Elam and Ken Nemchin. You can find a printable version on the Borough President's website or explore the digital map on Google Maps.

The following list highlights some of these important sites and the women they honor:

Pioneers and Leaders

• Emma Warren Roebling
  • Address: Brooklyn Tower on Brooklyn Bridge
  • Emily Warren Roebling helped finish the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband was injured. A plaque on the Brooklyn Tower honors her, saying: "Back of every great work we can find the self-sacrificing devotion of a woman."

• Elizabeth Jennings
  • Address: Park Row between Spruce and Beekman
  • Elizabeth Jennings Place honors Elizabeth Jennings. In 1854, she was the first African-American woman to win a lawsuit against unfair treatment on public transportation in New York City. This happened a century before Rosa Parks' famous act.

• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Address: 37 Park Row
  • A street sign at Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Corner honors these women's rights leaders. Their newspaper, The Revolution, had its office nearby in 1868. Anthony once said that people who are truly serious about change are willing to face challenges for their beliefs.

• Barbara Ruckle Heck
  • Address: 44 John Street
  • In 1766, Barbara Ruckle Heck founded what is now the oldest Methodist church in the United States at the Old John Street United Methodist Church.

• Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin
  • Address: Stockbrokerage 44 Broad Street
  • Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Clafin were the first women stockbrokers. They opened Woodhull, Clafin and Company in 1869. Victoria also started a newspaper and ran for President in 1872.

• Ms. Foundation for Women
  • Address: 120 Wall Street
  • The Ms. Foundation for Women started in 1972. It was the first national fund to support women and girls in many different areas, helping them lead their own lives and make a difference in the world.

• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Address: 7 State Street
  • St. Elizabeth Ann Seton lived in the James Watson House from 1801 to 1804. She became the first American-born saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Her shrine is now located there.

• Emma Lazarus
  • Address: Home 18 West 10th Street
  • Emma Lazarus's famous poem "The New Colossus" is written on the base of the Statue of Liberty. It includes the words, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." A street sign, Emma Lazarus Place, honors her near her former home.

• Annie Moore
  • Address: Ellis Island
  • The Annie Moore Statue on Ellis Island represents the millions of immigrants who came to America seeking a better life. From 1892 to 1954, twelve million immigrants entered the U.S. through Ellis Island.

• Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women
  • Address: 9 Murray Street
  • Founded in 1896, the National Association of Colored Women worked for women's equality and helped women find jobs. Mary Church Terrell, their first President, was also important in the fight for women's right to vote.

• Catherine Ferguson
  • Address: School 51 Warren Street
  • Catherine Ferguson, a former slave, started a Sunday school for poor children around 1793. She earned money by baking cakes to support the children.

• Women's Committee of the Gee How Oak Tin Association
  • Address: 62-64 Bayard Street
  • In 2002, Margaret Chin organized the Women's Committee of the Gee How Oak Tin Association in Chinatown. This allowed women from certain families to join and vote in the Association for the first time.

• Lillian Wald
  • Address: Settlement 263-267 Henry Street
  • In 1893, social reformer Lillian Wald started the idea of public health nursing for the poor. She created what became the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and founded the Henry Street Settlement in 1895 to help the community.

• Dorothy Day
  • Address: 55 East Third Street
  • Dorothy Day, an activist for peace and social justice, lived at Maryhouse, 55 East Third Street.

• Pat Eng & New York Asian Women's Center
  • Address: 32 Broadway, 10th Floor
  • The New York Asian Women's Center was founded in 1982 by women who saw a need for support for Asian immigrant women facing domestic violence. Pat Eng was its first Executive Director.

• Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Address: Infirmary 64 Bleecker Street
  • In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. In 1857, she opened the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital run by women for women. She also founded a medical college for women.

• Margaret Sanger
  • Address: Clinic 17 West 16th Street
  • Margaret Sanger believed that women's freedom starts with controlling their own bodies and choosing if and when to become mothers.

• Harriot Stanton Blatch
  • Address: Office 32 Union Square
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, continued her mother's fight for equality. She was a leader in the women's right to vote campaign in New York State.

• Women's Trade Union League
  • Address: Office 43 East 22nd Street
  • Founded in 1903, the Women's Trade Union League included women workers and their middle-class supporters. They studied working conditions for women and helped create women's trade unions.

• Elizabeth Phelps & National Woman Suffrage Association
  • Address: 49 East 23rd Street
  • A house bought by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps became known as the "Women's Bureau" because many women's groups met there. The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed there in 1869.

• Carrie Chapman Catt & National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • Address: 171 Madison Avenue
  • Carrie Chapman Catt led the fight for women's right to vote from the New York Headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She wrote about the long struggle, noting that many women dedicated their lives to achieving the vote.

• Mary Lindley Murray
  • Address: Plaque Park and 37th Ave
  • In 1776, Mary Lindley Murray entertained British officers at her home, giving American troops time to escape. A stone dedicated in 1903 honors her service during the Revolutionary War.

• Gloria Steinem & Ms. Magazine
  • Address: 370 Lexington Avenue
  • Gloria Steinem and her team created Ms. Magazine in 1971. It was first published as an independent magazine in 1972. Steinem famously said, "Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."

• Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Address: Apt 20 East 11th Street
  • Eleanor Roosevelt, a former First Lady and U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, lived in an apartment on East 11th Street. She was key in the United Nations adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She believed human rights begin in "small places, close to home."

• Margaret Sanger
  • Address: Clinic 17 West 16th Street
  • Margaret Sanger believed that women's freedom starts with controlling their own bodies and choosing if and when to become mothers.

• Harriot Stanton Blatch
  • Address: Office 32 Union Square
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, continued her mother's fight for equality. She was a leader in the women's right to vote campaign in New York State.

• Mary Pickford
  • Address: Biograph Film Company 11 East 14th Street
  • Mary Pickford became a movie star with the Biograph Film Company. She became one of the most powerful businesswomen of her time.

• St. Maria Frances Cabrini
  • Address: Cabrini Medical Center 227 East 19th Street
  • Francesca S. Cabrini moved to New York City in 1889 to help poor immigrants. In 1892, she started a small hospital that grew into the Cabrini Medical Center. In 1946, she became the first naturalized American saint.

• Elizabeth Phelps & National Woman Suffrage Association
  • Address: 49 East 23rd Street
  • A house bought by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps became known as the "Women's Bureau" because many women's groups met there. The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed there in 1869.

• Carrie Chapman Catt & National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • Address: 171 Madison Avenue
  • Carrie Chapman Catt led the fight for women's right to vote from the New York Headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She wrote about the long struggle, noting that many women dedicated their lives to achieving the vote.

• Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Address: Statue Riverside Park at West 72nd Street
  • A statue of Eleanor Roosevelt stands in Riverside Park. It was dedicated in 1996 and honors her work for human rights.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Address: 250 West 94th Street
  • The apartment where women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902 is now named in her honor. She helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, which started the fight for women's equality in the U.S.

• Marian Anderson
  • Address: Home 1200 Fifth Avenue and 101st Street
  • Marian Anderson's home is marked with a plaque. On January 7, 1955, she became the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera.

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Address: Columbia Law School 435 West 116th Street
  • Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1972. That same year, she became the first woman to receive tenure at Columbia Law School.

• Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Address: Columbia University 2960 Broadway at 116th Street
  • Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering physicist whose research helped change how we understand the universe. She became a full professor at Columbia University in 1958.

• Zora Neale Hurston
  • Address: Barnard College 3009 Broadway at 117th Street
  • In 1928, writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston became the first African-American woman to graduate from Barnard College.

• Shirley Chisholm
  • Address: Teachers College 525 West 120th Street
  • In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States. She once said that being female created more obstacles for her than being Black.

• Harriet Tubman
  • Address: Statue West 122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard
  • The Harriet Tubman Memorial honors the woman who led over 300 enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad. She never lost a passenger.

• Betty Lee Sung
  • Address: City College of New York, Convent Avenue between 131st and 141st Street
  • In 1970, author and historian Betty Lee Sung founded the Asian-American Studies Program at the City College of New York, one of the first in the nation.

• Sadie and Bessie Delany
  • Address: Office 2305 Seventh Avenue at 135th Street
  • In 1993, the life stories of Sadie and Bessie Delany became a bestselling book, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years."

• Ruby Dee
  • Address: 137th Street and 7th Avenue
  • Civil rights activist, actor, and poet Ruby Dee's childhood home was the Ranceley apartment building. She wrote poems calling for women to unite.

• Florence Mills
  • Address: 220 West 135th Street
  • The Florence Mills House was the home of the entertainer who fought against racial inequality.

• Madam C.J. Walker
  • Address: Countee Cullen Library 108-110 West 136th Street
  • The original site of Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse is now the Countee Cullen Library. She is thought to be the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire. She also gave money to groups working for racial equality.

• Ida B. Wells
  • Address: 230 West 136 Street
  • In 1892, Ida B. Wells came to New York City and started a national campaign against lynching as a writer for the New York Age newspaper. She also worked for women's right to vote.

• Margaret Corbin
  • Address: 190th Street and Fort Washington Avenue
  • Margaret Corbin was the first American woman to fight as a soldier in the Revolutionary War in 1776. A plaque and Margaret Corbin Circle honor her bravery.

Art, Culture, and Sports

• Louise Nevelson
  • Address: Intersection of Maiden Lane, William Street and Liberty Street
  • Louise Nevelson Plaza, featuring her sculptures "Shadows and Flags," was dedicated on April 14, 1977.

• Billie Jean King
  • Address: 26 Broadway
  • The Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center, honoring the tennis champion and women's rights activist, opened in Lower Manhattan in 2008.

• Gertrude Ederle
  • Address: Broadway near Beaver Street
  • On August 27, 1926, Gertrude Ederle received a ticker tape parade in New York City. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel.

• Amelia Earhart
  • Address: Broadway near Morris Street
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart was honored with two ticker tape parades in New York City. The last one, on June 20, 1932, celebrated her achievement as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Althea Gibson
  • Address: Broadway near Liberty Street
  • Althea Gibson was the first African-American to win a Wimbledon singles tennis championship. She was also the first tennis player to receive a ticker tape parade from New York City on July 11, 1957.

• Maya Lin
  • Address: United States Courthouse, Foley Square
  • In 1996, architect and sculptor Maya Lin created "Sounding Stones." These four granite blocks mark the entrances to the United States Courthouse.

• Sojourner Truth
  • Address: 340-344 Broadway
  • At a Woman's Rights Convention in 1853, abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth famously told hecklers: "But we'll have our rights; see if we don't. And you can't stop us from them; see if you can."

• Eve Addams' Tea Room
  • Address: 129 MacDougal Street
  • Eve Addams' Tea Room, founded in 1925, is said to be New York City's first Lesbian bar.

• Susan Glaspell
  • Address: 133 MacDougal Street
  • Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Susan Glaspell's plays were performed at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre starting in 1927.

• Berenice Abbott
  • Address: 50 Commerce Street
  • Photographer Berenice Abbott lived with Elizabeth McCausland. Abbott's important photo collection, Changing New York, was published in 1939.

• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Address: 75 ½ Bedford Street
  • In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

• Willa Cather
  • Address: Plaque 5 Bank Street
  • Writer Willa Cather lived with Edith Lewis in the West Village. A plaque is dedicated to this Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Julianna Force
  • Address: 8 West 8th Street
  • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Julianna Force founded the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney was a sculptor and art supporter, and Force was the Museum Director.

• Bella Abzug
  • Address: 2 Fifth Avenue
  • Congresswoman Bella Abzug helped make the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, possible. She encouraged people to "never give in and never give up."

• Eva Le Gallienne
  • Address: Theater 105 West 14th Street
  • In 1926, actor and director Eva Le Gallienne created the Civic Repertory Theatre. This started the off-Broadway movement, offering plays to those who couldn't afford Broadway prices.

• Emma Goldman
  • Address: 210 East 13th Street
  • Anarchist Emma Goldman lived here and published her magazine, Mother Earth, starting in 1906.

• Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
  • Address: 102 East 25th Street
  • From 1892 onwards, Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls worked at Tiffany Studios. They designed and created famous Tiffany lamps, windows, and other art.

• Caterina Jarboro
  • Address: New York Hippodrome 756 Sixth Avenue
  • In 1933, Caterina Jarboro, who was Native American and African-American, made her New York City debut with the Chicago Opera Company. This was 22 years before Marian Anderson's debut at the Metropolitan Opera.

• Audre Lorde
  • Address: Callen-Lorde Community Health Center 356 West 18th Street
  • Poet Audre Lorde, born in New York City in 1934, wrote about fighting racism, sexism, and homophobia. She was named New York State's Poet Laureate in 1991. The Callen-Lorde Community Health Center honors her memory.

• Edith Wharton
  • Address: childhood home 14 West 23rd Street
  • Author Edith Wharton's childhood home was at 14 West 23rd Street. In 1921, her novel The Age of Innocence won a Pulitzer Prize.

• Gertrude Stein
  • Address: Bryant Park, West 42nd between 5th and 6th Avenues
  • A statue of writer and poet Gertrude Stein is in Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library.

• Dorothy Parker
  • Address: Algonquin Round Table 59 West 44th Street
  • Author and poet Dorothy Parker was known for her clever wit during discussions at the Algonquin Round Table (Algonquin Hotel).

• Lorraine Hansberry
  • Address: Ethel Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street
  • On March 11, 1959, "A Raisin in the Sun" by playwright Lorraine Hansberry opened. It was the first play by a Black woman to appear on Broadway.

• Chita Rivera
  • Address: Winter Garden Theater 1634 Broadway
  • Broadway star Chita Rivera became famous in 1957 when West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theater.

• Phylicia Rashad
  • Address: Radio City Music Hall Avenue of the Americas at 49th Street
  • On June 6, 2004, Phylicia Rashad won a Tony Award for leading actress in a play. She was the first African-American woman to win this award.

• Toni Morrison
  • Address: Random House 1745 Broadway
  • Author Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993), worked as a senior editor at Random House for twenty years.

• Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan
  • Address: 11 West 53rd Street
  • The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan.

• Katharine Hepburn
  • Address: 244 East 49th Street
  • Film icon Katharine Hepburn made New York City her home for most of her life. The Katharine Hepburn Garden at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza was dedicated in her honor in 1997.

• Greta Garbo
  • Address: 450 East 52nd Street
  • Film icon Greta Garbo lived on the fifth floor of 450 East 52nd Street for most of her life.

• Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Address: 525 Lexington Avenue
  • Artist Georgia O'Keeffe lived in a suite on the 28th floor of the Shelton Hotel. She painted many of her New York City scenes from this location.

• Martha Graham
  • Address: Studio 316 East 63rd Street
  • Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham helped create the modern dance movement. She ran a Studio and School of Contemporary Dance.

• Pura Belpre
  • Address: Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
  • Pura Belpre was the first Puerto Rican librarian in the New York Public Library system. She also wrote books and studied folklore.

• Louise Elder Havemeyer
  • Address: Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue and 81st Street
  • In 1929, suffragist and art collector Louise Elder Havemeyer donated her large collection of impressionist art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This made the museum a leader in the art world.

• Julia de Burgos
  • Address: Mosaic 106th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue
  • Julia de Burgos Boulevard runs on East 106th Street. A mosaic portrait of this poet is located at 106th Street. Born in Puerto Rico in 1914, Julia de Burgos's poems continue to inspire new readers.

• Statues of Fictitious Female Characters
  • Address: Central Park
  • In New York City, statues honor characters like Mother Goose, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Juliet Capulet from Romeo and Juliet in Central Park. However, few real women are honored with statues.

• Emma Stebbins
  • Address: Central Park
  • Emma Stebbins' sculpture, Angel of the Waters Statue, at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park was dedicated in 1873. Stebbins was the first woman artist to receive a commission for a major artwork in New York City.

• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  • Address: Central Park Reservoir
  • In 1994, the Central Park Reservoir was renamed in honor of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Signs were put up in 2003 to recognize her love for Central Park and the city.

• Maria Tallchief
  • Address: New York City Ballet 20 Lincoln Center
  • Maria Tallchief, a Native American, became a prima ballerina with the New York City Ballet, performing there from 1948 to 1965.

• Tania Leon
  • Address: New York Philharmonic 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
  • Internationally known composer and conductor Tania Leon worked as New Music Advisor with the New York Philharmonic from 1993 to 1997.

• Barbara Walters
  • Address: ABC News 7 West 66th Street
  • Barbara Walters joined ABC News in 1976 as the first woman to co-host the network news. Before that, she was on NBC's Today Show for 15 years.

• Margaret Mead
  • Address: Theodore Roosevelt Park, Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street
  • Margaret Mead Green and the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples honor this anthropologist and author. She was promoted to curator at the Museum of Natural History in 1964.

• Diana Ross
  • Address: Playground Central Park West and 81st Street
  • Singer Diana Ross is honored with a children's playground named after her.

• Billie Holiday
  • Address: Home 26 West 87th Street
  • The home of singer Billie Holiday was at 26 West 87th Street.

• Joan of Arc
  • Address: Statue Riverside Drive and West 93rd Street
  • The Joan of Arc statue by Anna Hyatt was dedicated in 1915.

Politics and Public Service

• Diana Reyna
  • Address: Office 250 Broadway
  • New York City Council Member Diana Reyna was elected in 2001. She became the first woman of Dominican heritage elected in New York City.

• Carol Bellamy
  • Address: Office City Hall
  • Carol Bellamy was the first woman elected to a citywide office in New York City when she became City Council President in 1977.

• Christine Quinn
  • Address: Office City Hall
  • Christine Quinn became the first woman, first openly Gay, and first Irish-American Speaker of the New York City Council in January 2006.

• Marie Sklowdowska Curie
  • Address: City Hall Park
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie, a scientist and winner of two Nobel Prizes, was honored by a stone in City Hall Park in 1934. The stone was donated by Polish American Children of New York City.

• Jane Addams
  • Address: City Hall Park
  • Jane Addams, a leader of the settlement house movement and the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, was honored by a stone in City Hall Park in 1935.

• African Burial Ground National Monument
  • Address: corner of Elk and Duane Streets
  • This site is where 15,000–20,000 enslaved Africans were buried. Discovered in 1991, it became a national monument in 2007. About 40% of the adults buried there were women.

• Constance Baker Motley
  • Address: Office Municipal Building 1 Centre Street
  • Constance Baker Motley became the first woman Borough President of Manhattan in 1965. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate (1964) and the first African-American woman federal judge (1966).

• Elizabeth Holtzman
  • Address: Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street
  • Elizabeth Holtzman became the first woman Comptroller of New York City in 1990. She was also the youngest woman elected to Congress (1973) and the first woman to serve as Brooklyn's District Attorney.

• Jane Bolin
  • Address: Domestic Relations Court, 60 Lafayette Street
  • Jane Bolin was the first African-American woman in the United States to serve as a judge. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed her to the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939.

• Doris Ling-Cohan
  • Address: New York Supreme Court 60 Centre Street
  • First elected to the New York Supreme Court in 2002, Doris Ling-Cohan is the first Asian-American woman to serve as a Justice.

• Underground Railroad Station
  • Address: 36 Lispenard Street
  • The Underground Railroad Station at 36 Lispenard Street was a stop on the escape route to freedom for many. Women played a major role in the abolitionist movement.

• Nydia Velazquez
  • Address: Office 173 Avenue B
  • In 1992, Nydia Velazquez became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

• Women's City Club of New York
  • Address: 307 Seventh Avenue
  • The Women's City Club of New York was founded in 1915, before women had the right to vote. It helps women get involved in politics and discusses issues that affect their lives.

• Josephine Shaw Lowell
  • Address: Bryant Park, 6th Avenue between 40th and 41st streets
  • A Memorial Fountain honoring social worker Josephine Shaw Lowell was dedicated in Bryant Park in 1912. She was the first woman honored by a monument in NYC.

• Hillary Clinton
  • Address: Victory Party East 42nd and Lexington Avenue
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected as New York's first woman United States Senator on November 7, 2000. Her election night victory party was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

• League for Political Education
  • Address: The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street
  • The Town Hall was founded by members of the League for Political Education, a group that supported women's right to vote. They wanted a place to educate people on important issues. Town Hall opened in 1921, after women gained the right to vote.

• Muriel Siebert
  • Address: Muriel Siebert and Company 885 Third Avenue
  • Muriel Siebert became the first woman to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967. Today, she runs her own brokerage firm.

• Rosalyn Yalow
  • Address: Hunter College East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
  • In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. She graduated from Hunter College in 1941.

• Geraldine Ferraro
  • Address: Marymount College 221 East 71st Street
  • In 1984, Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman in U.S. history nominated to the Presidential ticket of a major political party. She graduated from Marymount College in 1956.

• Brenda Berkman
  • Address: Randall's Island FDNY Training Academy
  • Thanks to a successful lawsuit by Brenda Berkman in 1978, the New York City Fire Department had to allow women firefighters. Berkman and 40 other women entered the FDNY Training Academy in 1982.

• Betty Friedan
  • Address: 72nd Street and Central Park West
  • Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) and a founder of the National Organization for Women (1966), lived at The Dakota apartment building. She wrote about the "problem that has no name," which was women being held back from reaching their full potential.

• Lesbian Herstory Archives
  • Address: 215 West 92nd Street
  • The Lesbian Herstory Archives was founded in 1974 by Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel in their apartment.

Other Notable Sites

• Ladies' Mile Historic District
  • Address: Broadway from 8th to 23rd Streets
  • New York City has honored women's shopping with the Ladies' Mile Historic District. The sign marking the District is at Broadway and 23rd Street.

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  • Address: 23-29 Washington Place at Greene Street
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 women and girls on March 25, 1911. This tragedy led to new worker safety laws. Frances Perkins, who witnessed the fire, dedicated her life to improving working conditions. She became the first woman cabinet member in 1933.

• New York Liberty Basketball
  • Address: Madison Square Garden 7th Avenue btwn West 31st and 33rd Streets
  • The first home game of the New York Liberty of the WNBA was played at Madison Square Garden on June 29, 1997.

• Ana Oliveira & the New York Women's Foundation
  • Address: 434 West 33rd Street
  • The New York Women's Foundation was started in 1987 to support women and girls. It focuses on helping low-income women and girls through community projects. Ana Oliveira leads the Foundation.

• Golda Meir
  • Address: 1411 Broadway at 39th Street
  • Golda Meir, a former leader of Israel, is honored with a statue at Golda Meir Square.

• Sara Delano Roosevelt
  • Address: 47-49 East 65th Street
  • The Sara Delano Roosevelt House is at 47-49 East 65th Street. A park named for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother is on the Lower East Side.

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