Historical Marker
Christopher Park
Historical marker location:
53 Christopher Street, New York, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of West 4th Street and Grove Street, on the left when traveling north on West 4th Street.)
.145 Acre.
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.