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{{Short description|1st Mayor of New York City (1898–1901)}}
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|order = 91st
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|term_end = December 31, 1901
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|predecessor = [[William L. Strong]]
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|successor = [[Seth Low]]
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'''Robert Anderson Van Wyck''' ({{IPAc-en|v|æ|n|_|ˈ|w|aɪ|k}} {{respell|van|_|WYKE}};<ref name=NYer>Paumgarten, Nick. [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/06/11/010611ta_TALK_DEPT_OF_ONCE "The Van Wyck Question"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', June 11, 2001. Accessed September 12, 2008.</ref><ref name=NYTa>{{cite news|last1=Bilefsky|first1=Dan|title=In Jam on Van Wyck? Try to Say It Right (published the next day in print on page A28 as Stuck on the Van Wyck Expressway? Just Try to Pronounce It|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/nyregion/van-wyck-expressway-also-snarls-pronunciation.html?_r=0|access-date=13 March 2016|work=New York Times|date=May 25, 2011|page=A28}}</ref> July 20, 1849{{spaced ndash}}November 14, 1918) was the first mayor of [[New York City]] after the consolidation of [[Borough (New York City)|the five boroughs]] into the City of Greater New York in 1898.<ref name=NYer/><ref name=NYTa/>
'''Robert Anderson Van Wyck''' ({{IPAc-en|v|æ|n|_|ˈ|w|aɪ|k}} {{respell|van|_|WYKE}};<ref name=NYer>Paumgarten, Nick. [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/06/11/010611ta_TALK_DEPT_OF_ONCE "The Van Wyck Question"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', June 11, 2001. Accessed May 10, 2023.</ref><ref name=NYTa>{{cite news|last1=Bilefsky|first1=Dan|title=In Jam on Van Wyck? Try to Say It Right (published the next day in print on page A28 as Stuck on the Van Wyck Expressway? Just Try to Pronounce It|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/nyregion/van-wyck-expressway-also-snarls-pronunciation.html?_r=0|access-date=May 10, 2023|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 25, 2011|page=A28}}</ref> July 20, 1849&nbsp;&ndash; November 14, 1918) was the first [[Mayor of New York City|mayor]] of [[New York City]] after the consolidation of [[Borough (New York City)|the five boroughs]] into the [[City of Greater New York]] in 1898.<ref name=NYer/><ref name=NYTa/>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the son of William Van Wyck and Lydia Ann Maverick. He was one of seven children, including two brothers [[Augustus Van Wyck|Augustus]] and Samuel Maverick, a Confederate Regimental Surgeon.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fitch |first=Charles Elliott |date=1916 |title=Encyclopedia of Biography of New York |volume=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 |location=New York, NY |publisher=American Historical Society |page=88}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanstampdealer.com/SubMenu/Regimental_Surgeon_Samuel_Van_Wyck.aspx?id=322 |title=Regimental Surgeon Samuel Van Wyck |last=Kaufmann |first=Patricia A. |date=2017 |website=americanstampdealer.com |publisher=American Stamp Dealers Association |location=Centre Hall PA |access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref> He studied at the Wilson Academy in [[North Carolina]], and later graduated from [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia University]], where he was [[valedictorian]] of his class. His sister Lydia married [[Robert Hoke]] of North Carolina, a [[Confederate Army|Confederate]] general during the [[American Civil War]] and businessman.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the son of William Van Wyck and Lydia Ann Maverick. He was one of seven children, including two brothers [[Augustus Van Wyck|Augustus]] and Samuel Maverick, a Confederate Regimental Surgeon.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fitch |first=Charles Elliott |date=1916 |title=Encyclopedia of Biography of New York |volume=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 |location=New York, NY |publisher=American Historical Society |page=88}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanstampdealer.com/SubMenu/Regimental_Surgeon_Samuel_Van_Wyck.aspx?id=322 |title=Regimental Surgeon Samuel Van Wyck |last=Kaufmann |first=Patricia A. |date=2017 |website=americanstampdealer.com |publisher=American Stamp Dealers Association |location=Centre Hall PA |access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref> He studied at the Wilson Academy in [[North Carolina]], and later graduated from [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia University]], where he was [[valedictorian]] of his class.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mayors of Columbia |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/mayors-columbia |access-date=May 6, 2022 |website=Columbia Magazine |language=en}}</ref> His sister Lydia married [[Robert Hoke]] of North Carolina, a [[Confederate Army|Confederate]] general during the [[American Civil War]] and businessman.


==Career==
==Career==
Van Wyck began working in business, then studied law and became an attorney. He enjoyed a large practice for many years before entering politics.
Van Wyck began working in business, then studied law and became an attorney. He enjoyed a large practice for many years before entering politics.


His business life depended on his social connections as well. Van Wyck was a member of the [[Holland Society of New York|Holland Society]], of which he became President. He belonged to many of the social clubs of the city and was prominent in [[Masonic]] circles, being a member of The Ancient Lodge, New York City.
His business life depended on his social connections as well. Van Wyck was a member of the [[Holland Society of New York|Holland Society]], of which he became president. He belonged to many of the social clubs of the city and was prominent in [[Masonic]] circles, being a member of The Ancient Lodge, New York City.


==Political career==
==Political career==
For many years Van Wyck took an active interest in [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] matters, attending many conventions, state and national. Later, Van Wyck was elected Judge of the City Court of New York. He advanced to Chief Justice.
For many years Van Wyck took an active interest in [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] matters, attending many conventions, state and national. Later, Van Wyck was elected Judge of the City Court of New York. He advanced to chief justice.


Van Wyck resigned as justice to accept the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor of New York City. He was elected in 1897 by a very large majority. He served as [[mayor of New York City]] between 1898 and 1901, as the first mayor to govern [[New York City]] after its [[Borough (New York City)|five boroughs]] had been consolidated into a single city.
Van Wyck resigned as justice to accept the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor of New York City. He was elected in 1897 by a very large majority. He served as [[mayor of New York City]] between 1898 and 1901, as the first mayor to govern [[New York City]] after its [[Borough (New York City)|five boroughs]] had been consolidated into a single city.


As Mayor, he brought together the innumerable municipal corporations comprising the greater city, adjusting their finances and bringing order out of almost total chaos. He directed construction of the [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company|Interborough Rapid Transit]], the [[History of the IRT subway before 1918|first subway in Manhattan]], and provided for the construction of the proposed Brooklyn Tunnel.
As Mayor, he brought together the innumerable municipal corporations comprising the greater city. He directed construction of the [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company|Interborough Rapid Transit]]'s [[History of the IRT subway before 1918|first subway in Manhattan]].


Van Wyck is generally regarded as a colorless mayor, selected by the leaders of [[Tammany Hall]] as a man who would do little to interfere with their running of the city. Initially highly popular as a result of his reversal of the various reforms introduced by the preceding Fusion administration, Van Wyck's administration foundered on the so-called 'Ice Trust' scandal of 1900. The ''[[New York World]]'' reported that the American Ice Company of [[Charles W. Morse]] planned to double the price of ice, from 30 to 60 cents per hundred pounds (from 66 cents to 1.32 dollars per 100 kilograms). In the era before [[refrigeration]], this had potentially fatal effects, as the ice was the only preservative available to keep food, milk, and medicines fresh. The high price would have put ice beyond the reach of many of the city's poor{{spaced ndash}}Tammany's main power base in the years of waves of immigration.
Van Wyck is generally regarded as selected by the leaders of [[Tammany Hall]] as a man who would do little to interfere with their running of the city. Initially highly popular as a result of his reversal of the various reforms introduced by the preceding Fusion administration, Van Wyck's administration foundered on the so-called "Ice Trust" scandal of 1900. The ''[[New York World]]'' reported that the American Ice Company of [[Charles W. Morse]] planned to double the price of ice, from 30 to 60 cents per hundred pounds (from 66 cents to 1.32 dollars per 100 kilograms). In the era before [[refrigeration]], this had potentially fatal effects, as the ice was the only preservative available to keep food, milk, and medicines fresh. The high price would have put ice beyond the reach of many of the city's poor—Tammany's main power base in the years of waves of immigration.


American Ice was forced to reverse its decision due to the public outcry. Van Wyck's political rivals forced an investigation into the issue. It revealed that American Ice had secured an effective monopoly over the supply of its product to the city{{spaced ndash}}it was the only company with rights to land ice at New York piers{{spaced ndash}}and would have dramatically increased its profits at the new price. In addition, Van Wyck, whose salary as mayor was only $15,000, owned and had apparently not paid for, $680,000 worth of American Ice stock.
American Ice was forced to reverse its decision due to the public outcry. Van Wyck's political rivals forced an investigation into the issue. It revealed that American Ice had secured an effective monopoly over the supply of its product to the city—it was the only company with rights to land ice at New York piers—and would have dramatically increased its profits at the new price. In addition, Van Wyck, whose salary as mayor was only $15,000, owned and had apparently not paid for, $680,000 worth of American Ice stock.


The Ice Trust Scandal destroyed Van Wyck's political career and was generally reckoned to have cost Tammany the elections of 1901, which was won by the Fusion reformist slate led by [[Seth Low]]. Two years later, the ''[[New York Times]]'' characterized the Van Wyck administration as one mired in "black ooze and slime". Governor [[Theodore Roosevelt]] initiated an investigation, which determined that Van Wyck had not been personally implicated in the Ice Trust Scandal.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | last = Mooney | first = James E. | editor = Kenneth T. Jackson | editor-link = Kenneth T. Jackson | title = Van Wyck, Robert A(nderson) | encyclopedia = [[The Encyclopedia of New York City]] | pages = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368/page/1225 1225] | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] & [[The New-York Historical Society]] | location = New Haven, CT & London & New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-300-05536-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368/page/1225 }}</ref>
The Ice Trust Scandal destroyed Van Wyck's political career and was generally reckoned to have cost Tammany the elections of 1901, which was won by the Fusion reformist slate led by [[Seth Low]]. Two years later, ''[[The New York Times]]'' characterized the Van Wyck administration as one mired in "black ooze and slime".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-the-triumph-of-tamman/124374064/ |title=The Triumph of Tammany |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=8 |date=November 4, 1903 |access-date=May 10, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Governor [[Theodore Roosevelt]] initiated an investigation, which determined that Van Wyck had not been personally implicated in the Ice Trust Scandal.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | last = Mooney | first = James E. | editor = Kenneth T. Jackson | editor-link = Kenneth T. Jackson | title = Van Wyck, Robert A(nderson) | encyclopedia = [[The Encyclopedia of New York City]] | pages = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368/page/1225 1225] | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] & [[The New-York Historical Society]] | location = New Haven, CT & London & New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-300-05536-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368/page/1225 }}</ref>


==Later years==
==Later years==
Van Wyck and his wife enjoyed traveling. In 1906, they moved to [[Paris, France]]. He died there at the age of 69 on November 14, 1918. The funeral was held at American Holy Trinity Church. His body was returned to New York and he was buried at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in The [[The Bronx|Bronx]], New York City.<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert A. Van Wyck Dies in Paris Home. First Mayor of Greater New York Had Lived Abroad for 12 Years. His Administration Marked by So-Called Ice Trust, Ramapo WaterSteal, and Police Scandals. In Administrative Scandals. Police Department Accused. Effort Made to Remove Him. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9905E5DB1239E13ABC4E52DFB7678383609EDE |quote=Robert A. Van Wyck, former Mayor of New York City, is dead here. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning in the American Holy Trinity Church. |work=[[New York Times]] |date= 1918-11-16|access-date=2008-06-22 }}</ref>
Van Wyck and his wife enjoyed traveling. In 1906, they moved to [[Paris, France]]. He died there at the age of 69 on November 14, 1918. The funeral was held at American Holy Trinity Church. His body was returned to New York and he was buried at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx]], New York City.<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert A. Van Wyck Dies in Paris Home. First Mayor of Greater New York Had Lived Abroad for 12 Years. His Administration Marked by So-Called Ice Trust, Ramapo WaterSteal, and Police Scandals. In Administrative Scandals. Police Department Accused. Effort Made to Remove Him. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-robert-a-van-wyck-di/124373695/ |quote=Robert A. Van Wyck, former Mayor of New York City, is dead here. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning in the American Holy Trinity Church. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |place=Paris |page=13 |date=November 15, 1918 |publication-date= November 16, 1918 |access-date=May 10, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


==Legacy==
==Legacy==
*In 1898 the [[FDNY]] launched a [[fireboat]] named ''[[Robert A. van Wyck (ship, 1898)|Robert A. van Wyck]]''.
* In 1898 the [[FDNY]] launched a [[fireboat]] named ''Robert Van Wyck''.
*MS 217 in [[Queens]] is the Robert A. Van Wyck Middle School
* MS 217 in [[Queens]] is the Robert A. Van Wyck Middle School
*The [[Jamaica – Van Wyck (IND Archer Avenue Line)|Jamaica – Van Wyck]] station of the [[New York City Subway]] in Queens
* The [[Jamaica–Van Wyck station]] of the [[New York City Subway]] in Queens
*The [[Van Wyck Expressway]] runs in a north-south direction through Queens from [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] in the south to the [[Whitestone Expressway]] in the north
* The [[Van Wyck Expressway]] runs in a north–south direction through Queens from [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] in the south to the [[Whitestone Expressway]] in the north.


==References==
==References==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*Anne Van Wyck, ''Descendants of Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck and Anna Polhemus,'' New York: Tobias A. Wright Printer and Publisher, 1912, pp.&nbsp;207–208.
* Anne Van Wyck, ''Descendants of Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck and Anna Polhemus,'' New York: Tobias A. Wright Printer and Publisher, 1912, pp.&nbsp;207–208.
* Oliver Allen (1993). ''The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall,'' New York: Addison Wesley.
* Oliver Allen (1993). ''The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall,'' New York: Addison Wesley.
* {{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-ex-mayor-van-wyck-lef/124374590/ |title=Ex-Mayor Van Wyck Left $2,000,000 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=4 |date=January 4, 1919 |access-date=May 10, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}
* ''New York Times'', 4 November 1903.
* ''New York Times'', 16 November 1918.
* ''New York Times'', 4 January 1919.


==External links==
==External links==
*{{Find a Grave|53042238}}
* {{Find a Grave|53042238}}


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Robert Anderson Van Wyck
91st Mayor of New York City
In office
January 1, 1898 – December 31, 1901
Preceded byWilliam L. Strong
Succeeded bySeth Low
Personal details
Born(1849-07-20)July 20, 1849
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 14, 1918(1918-11-14) (aged 69)
Paris, France
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Signature

Robert Anderson Van Wyck (/væn ˈwk/ van WYKE;[1][2] July 20, 1849 – November 14, 1918) was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898.[1][2]

Early life and education

[edit]

Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the son of William Van Wyck and Lydia Ann Maverick. He was one of seven children, including two brothers Augustus and Samuel Maverick, a Confederate Regimental Surgeon.[3][4] He studied at the Wilson Academy in North Carolina, and later graduated from Columbia University, where he was valedictorian of his class.[5] His sister Lydia married Robert Hoke of North Carolina, a Confederate general during the American Civil War and businessman.

Career

[edit]

Van Wyck began working in business, then studied law and became an attorney. He enjoyed a large practice for many years before entering politics.

His business life depended on his social connections as well. Van Wyck was a member of the Holland Society, of which he became president. He belonged to many of the social clubs of the city and was prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of The Ancient Lodge, New York City.

Political career

[edit]

For many years Van Wyck took an active interest in Democratic Party matters, attending many conventions, state and national. Later, Van Wyck was elected Judge of the City Court of New York. He advanced to chief justice.

Van Wyck resigned as justice to accept the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor of New York City. He was elected in 1897 by a very large majority. He served as mayor of New York City between 1898 and 1901, as the first mayor to govern New York City after its five boroughs had been consolidated into a single city.

As Mayor, he brought together the innumerable municipal corporations comprising the greater city. He directed construction of the Interborough Rapid Transit's first subway in Manhattan.

Van Wyck is generally regarded as selected by the leaders of Tammany Hall as a man who would do little to interfere with their running of the city. Initially highly popular as a result of his reversal of the various reforms introduced by the preceding Fusion administration, Van Wyck's administration foundered on the so-called "Ice Trust" scandal of 1900. The New York World reported that the American Ice Company of Charles W. Morse planned to double the price of ice, from 30 to 60 cents per hundred pounds (from 66 cents to 1.32 dollars per 100 kilograms). In the era before refrigeration, this had potentially fatal effects, as the ice was the only preservative available to keep food, milk, and medicines fresh. The high price would have put ice beyond the reach of many of the city's poor—Tammany's main power base in the years of waves of immigration.

American Ice was forced to reverse its decision due to the public outcry. Van Wyck's political rivals forced an investigation into the issue. It revealed that American Ice had secured an effective monopoly over the supply of its product to the city—it was the only company with rights to land ice at New York piers—and would have dramatically increased its profits at the new price. In addition, Van Wyck, whose salary as mayor was only $15,000, owned and had apparently not paid for, $680,000 worth of American Ice stock.

The Ice Trust Scandal destroyed Van Wyck's political career and was generally reckoned to have cost Tammany the elections of 1901, which was won by the Fusion reformist slate led by Seth Low. Two years later, The New York Times characterized the Van Wyck administration as one mired in "black ooze and slime".[6] Governor Theodore Roosevelt initiated an investigation, which determined that Van Wyck had not been personally implicated in the Ice Trust Scandal.[7]

Later years

[edit]

Van Wyck and his wife enjoyed traveling. In 1906, they moved to Paris, France. He died there at the age of 69 on November 14, 1918. The funeral was held at American Holy Trinity Church. His body was returned to New York and he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.[8]

Legacy

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Paumgarten, Nick. "The Van Wyck Question", The New Yorker, June 11, 2001. Accessed May 10, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Bilefsky, Dan (May 25, 2011). "In Jam on Van Wyck? Try to Say It Right (published the next day in print on page A28 as Stuck on the Van Wyck Expressway? Just Try to Pronounce It". The New York Times. p. A28. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  3. ^ Fitch, Charles Elliott (1916). Encyclopedia of Biography of New York. Vol. 4. New York, NY: American Historical Society. p. 88.
  4. ^ Kaufmann, Patricia A. (2017). "Regimental Surgeon Samuel Van Wyck". americanstampdealer.com. Centre Hall PA: American Stamp Dealers Association. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Mayors of Columbia". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  6. ^ "The Triumph of Tammany". The New York Times. November 4, 1903. p. 8. Retrieved May 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Mooney, James E. (1995). "Van Wyck, Robert A(nderson)". In Kenneth T. Jackson (ed.). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT & London & New York: Yale University Press & The New-York Historical Society. pp. 1225. ISBN 0-300-05536-6.
  8. ^ "Robert A. Van Wyck Dies in Paris Home. First Mayor of Greater New York Had Lived Abroad for 12 Years. His Administration Marked by So-Called Ice Trust, Ramapo WaterSteal, and Police Scandals. In Administrative Scandals. Police Department Accused. Effort Made to Remove Him". The New York Times. Paris (published November 16, 1918). November 15, 1918. p. 13. Retrieved May 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Robert A. Van Wyck, former Mayor of New York City, is dead here. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning in the American Holy Trinity Church.

Further reading

[edit]
  • Anne Van Wyck, Descendants of Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck and Anna Polhemus, New York: Tobias A. Wright Printer and Publisher, 1912, pp. 207–208.
  • Oliver Allen (1993). The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall, New York: Addison Wesley.
  • "Ex-Mayor Van Wyck Left $2,000,000". The New York Times. January 4, 1919. p. 4. Retrieved May 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of New York City
1898—1901
Succeeded by