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 * ...that the Yonkers Chiefs, a former Basketball team based in Yonkers, only played once during the 1946/47 season?
 * ...that the Croton Aqueduct was used as a water supply by several residents of Manhattan due to the lack of fresh water available on the island at the time?
 * ...that despite intentions to open the Crouse College, Syracuse University as a women-only college, his son opened it as open to both genders after his father, John Crouse, died during its construction?