This day in history: May 12
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Date(s) - 12/05/2024
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1885
The village has purchased a three-cornered piece of land at the corner of Gansevoort and Salisbury streets that will allow it to extend Burwell street to intersect Gansevoort Street. The small triangular piece of land bounded by Burrell, Gansevoort, and Salisbury streets will make a very handsome little park. Today it is known as “Bellamy Park.”
1973
Dr. George A, Burgin, 71, died this morning in Little Falls Hospital. Dr. Burgin, long one of the city’s leading physicians and surgeons, was a past president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, a position he served in 1964-65.
