Minetta Playground

Historical marker location:

Minetta Playground, New York, New York

( Marker is on Sixth Avenue near West Third and Fourth Streets.)

.206 acres.

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.