Streets of Morningside Heights: Riverside Drive and West 112th Street in Morningside Heights, Harlem, upper Manhattan
“I Trust the People” but not the Electoral College…a recurring theme for the Democratic Party in American politics. Despite a popular vote majority of 50.9% to 47.9% over the Republican in 1876, the Electoral College handed the presidency to Samuel Tilden’s opponent by a 185-184 margin. Read about it here, or better yet, read 1876 by Gore Vidal.
This previous post shows Tilden’s upstate New York birthplace in an early twentieth-century postcard view. Tilden came from New Lebanon, the center of which is located at the intersection of US Route 20 and New York Route 22 in Columbia County.
