Eugenio Maria De Hostos Boulevard (Bronx)
Present name:E 149th St
Location:From the Harlem River eastward to the East River.
Honoree: Eugenio Maria de Hostos (1839-1903) was a Puerto Rican-born lawyer, educator and political activist. Hostos Community College, whose buildings flank the Grand Concourse just south of this street, is named for him. Hostos campaigned against Spanish colonial rule and for the abolition of slavery. After the end of Spanish rule in 1898, he returned to Puerto Rico and was later Inspector General of Public Education in the Dominican Republic.
LL:1996/55