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3 unusual facts about John Wolfe Ambrose


John Wolfe Ambrose

Under Brown's tutelage, Ambrose acquired the necessary knowledge of the Street Cleaning Department so that later when Mayor Hugh Grant decided to reorganize the Department, it was Ambrose who prepared a plan which was later adopted by the city.

Also, a memorial bust monument of Ambrose was erected in his honor and originally unveiled at Battery Park in 1936 by his family and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Over the next fifteen years, Ambrose succeeded in obtaining $1,478,000 from Congress for improving the Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels.



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