Harriet Ross Tubman Avenue (Brooklyn)
Present name:Fulton Street
Location:Between Boerum Place and Rockaway Boulevard
Honoree: Harriet Ross (1820-1913), an escaped slave, settled in Auburn NY in 1857. She made 19 trips on the Underground Railroad and freed more than 300 slaves. In the Civil War, she was a spy for the Union army and later a government nurse. In 1896, she bought land for a home for sick and needy blacks. Unable to raise enough money to build, she gave the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. It completed the home in 1908 and Harriet spent her last years there.
LL:2004/08

Harriet Tubman Avenue (Manhattan)
Present name:St. Nicholas Avenue
Location:From West 111th Street to West 141st Street
Honoree: See Harriet Tubman Square
LL:2002/ 19

Harriet Tubman Square (Manhattan)
Present name:None
Location:The portions of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue, extending from West 120th Street to West 122nd street
Honoree: Harriet Ross (1820-1913), an escaped slave, settled in Auburn NY in 1857. She made 19 trips on the Underground Railroad and freed more than 300 slaves. In the Civil War, she was a spy for the Union army and later a government nurse. In 1896, she bought land for a home for sick and needy blacks. Unable to raise enough money to build, she gave the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. It completed the home in 1908 and Harriet spent her last years there.
LL:2002/ 19