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Bedford Park Blvd–Lehman College

Bedford Park, Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx

Bedford Park Boulevard was 200th Street until 1906; Lehman College honours Herbert H. Lehman.

Lehman (1878–1963) was governor of New York from 1933 to 1942 and later a US senator; the college, founded in 1931 as Hunter College’s Bronx campus, took his name on becoming independent in the late 1960s. Lehman College says the Bedford Park tract was named after a planned ‘garden’ community in London; Wikipedia says the boulevard was likely named after Standard Oil director Edward Thomas Bedford.

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Sources

  1. Bedford Park, Bronx Wikipedia
  2. Lehman College Wikipedia
  3. Herbert H. Lehman Wikipedia
  4. Neighborhoods – Public Art & Architecture in the Bronx Lehman College
  5. Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College station Wikipedia

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.