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		<title>Stuyvesant Polyclinic Stairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While vainly looking for Conflux Festival events I stumbled on OHNY at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic on 2nd Avenue. It looks like the recent renovation left the stairway restored and in good shape. The rest of the space is gutted and drywalled, but I never saw the interior before so I don&#8217;t know how it used [...]]]></description>
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While vainly looking for Conflux Festival events I stumbled on OHNY at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic on 2nd Avenue. It looks like the recent renovation left the stairway restored and in good shape. The rest of the space is gutted and drywalled, but I never saw the interior before so I don&#8217;t know how it used to look.</p>

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		<title>Mansion Painter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 23:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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The Landmarked Stuyvesant Polyclinic is being converted into a mansion. Should be some digs on noisy Second Avenue and St. Mark&#8217;s Place.</p>

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		<title>The Stuyvesant Polyclinic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ottendorfer Library and The Stuyvesant Polyclinic. Second Avenue between St Marks Place and East 9th Street. These adjoining building were both designed by architect William Schickel and used molded terra cotta for exterior decoration. They date from 1884 when this was a German neighborhood. From the plaque, now hidden behind a gate: &#8220;Stuyvesant Polyclinic formerly [...]]]></description>
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<div align="left"><a target="_self" href="http://wrybread.com/gammablog/gammablablog.php?p=2073">Ottendorfer Library</a> and The Stuyvesant Polyclinic. Second Avenue between St Marks Place and East 9th Street. These adjoining building were both designed by architect William Schickel and used molded terra cotta for exterior decoration. They date from 1884 when this was a German neighborhood.</div>
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<td style="height: 2px">From the plaque, now hidden behind a gate: &#8220;Stuyvesant Polyclinic formerly the German Dispensary. In 1884 William Schickel designed this building as a health clinic for the city&#8217;s German immigrants. It is an ornate version of Italian Renaissance design. The facade is enhanced by sculpted portrait busts of famous physicians and scientists, includingh English physiologist, William Harvey; Swedish Botanist, Carolus Linnaeus; French chemist, Antoine Lavoisier; and German naturalist, Friedrick Von Humboldt. &#8211; New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation 1989&#8243;</td>
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<td style="height: 2px"><a href="http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html">Anders Celsius 1701-1744</a> &#8211; For his metereological observations he constructed his world famous Celsius thermometer, with 0 for the boiling point of water and 100 for the freezing point. After his death in 1744 the scale was reversed to its present form..</td>
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<td style="height: 2px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates">Hippocrates (c. 460 BCâ€“380 BC)</a> &#8211; A famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is Primum non nocere (&#8220;first, do no harm&#8221;); another one is Ars longa, vita brevis (&#8220;art is long, and life short&#8221;).</td>
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<td style="height: 83px"><a href="http://www.in-ta.net/info/aesculapius/">Aesculapius</a> &#8211; In Greek mythology, Aesculapius, son of Apollo, (often referred to as the god of medicine or healing) was a Greek healer who became a Greek demigod, and was a famous physician.His mother, the nymph Coronis, a princess of Thessaly, died when he was an among the Greek gods and heroes who were associated with health and curing disease.</td>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554873558/" title="Friedrick Von Humboldt by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/3554873558_35367c0a2a_o.jpg" width="733" height="733" alt="Friedrick Von Humboldt" /></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt">Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt</a> He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554873420/" title="Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3396/3554873420_1f36767845_o.jpg" width="595" height="595" alt="Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland" /></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Wilhelm_Hufeland">Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland</a> (August 12, 1762 &#8211; August 25, 1836), was a German physician. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554873348/" title="Carolus Linnaeus by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3554873348_b9aeec1dea_o.jpg" width="640" height="640" alt="Carolus Linnaeus" /></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus">Carolus Linnaeus</a> (Carl von Linné ) &#8211; Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.<br />
<a href="http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm">americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554067485/" title="William Harvey by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3403/3554067485_e75f0f378a_o.jpg" width="619" height="619" alt="William Harvey" /></a><br />
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William Harvey</a> &#8211; (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554067397/" title="Antoine Lavoisier by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3637/3554067397_ec621a3f1f_o.jpg" width="650" height="650" alt="Antoine Lavoisier" /></a><br />
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier </a>(26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794; French pronunciation: [???twan l????? d? la.vwa?zje]), the father of modern chemistry,[1] was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass,[2] recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554067321/" title="Galenus by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3554067321_c9fc237320_o.jpg" width="1000" height="750" alt="Galenus" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen">Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus </a>(AD 129 – 200/217), better known as Galen of Pergamum, was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origin,[1] and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period. (I&#8217;m not sure of this attribution, the clothes on the bust look too modern)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/3554789872/" title="Polyclinic Faces by GammaBlog, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3554789872_ea69f005fe_b.jpg" width="1024" height="425" alt="Polyclinic Faces" /></a></p>

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