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Themed 15x15 Freeform Crossword - Compiled By tim534
Date: 20 Sep 2013
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1. This 20th Century Washington Heights resident and author of The Cancer Journals, described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” (5,5)
4. This Northern Manhattan-based advocacy organization successfully pressured the Metropolitan Transit Organization to convert its diesel-burning buses to cleaner alternatives. (5)
6. A movement to improve the purity of this nutritious liquid organized in the early decades of the 20th Century. (4)
8. In 1929, NYC snow removal trucks were deployed as “healthmobiles” to educate the public and provide an toxin-antitoxin for this disease. (10)
9. Killed 146 workers at the Asch Building in 1911. (4)
12. Opened in 1882, this Harlem hospital was shuttered by Major Edward I Koch in 1979 despite protest by the community. (8)
14. A 1916 epidemic of this disease made surveillance a public affair as a means of communal protection. (5)
15. In the 1920s and 1930s, The Majestic on West 75th Street was this type of illegal business, which likely contributed to the spread of venereal disease. (7)
16. The country’s first motor vehicle fatality was recorded in 1899. The victim, Henry H. Bliss, was struck by this kind of vehicle-for-hire. (4)
Down
1. In 1922, Dr. John Davin launched a Congressional campaign to defend physicians’ rights to prescribe this. (7)
2. In 2001, Manhattan Borough President C. Virigina Fields funded a safe house in Washington Heights for children and families poisoned by this heavy metal. (4)
3. This Civil War veteran and sanitary engineer wrote the “Sanitary and Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York.” (5)
5. Mary Mallon is better known for this nickname, which describes the disease she carried. (7,4)
7. Launched by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007, this visionary agenda enlisted 25 city agencies in a wide-ranging series of initiatives to prepare New York City for the future. (6)
10. The Croton Receiving Reservoir in Central Park provided New York City with its first dependable clean water supply and seemed to represent the city’s solution to this disease. (7)
11. Neighborhood of Wien House, the first HUD-funded housing property in New York to voluntarily adopt a 100% smoke-free policy to protect the health of the building’s residents and visitors. (6)
13. Members of this activist group disrupted a 1987 broadcast of CBS Evening News to protest the government’s emphasis on the Gulf War over the AIDS epidemic. (3,2)