SAMUEL TILDEN, Upper West Side
A statue on Riverside Drive at West 112th Street commemorates a Democratic candidate for President who won the popular vote, yet failed to garner enough votes in the Electoral College, giving the election to the Republican candidate amid bitter charges of electoral chicanery. Sound familiar? In the election of 1876, which wound up in a popular [...]
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