The word eponym has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 15 in “Before Lincoln Center, San Juan Hill Was a Vibrant Black Community” by James Barron:
As an executive vice president of Lincoln Center, Leah Johnson was involved in a project to tell what she called “the origin story of Lincoln Center,” about the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood that was cleared in the 1950s to make way for the travertine citadel of concert halls and theaters.
… The project to tell the story of the neighborhood became “Legacies of San Juan Hill,” a website that went live this week and includes archival photographs, interviews with former residents and scholarly essays. “Legacies” was created in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (whose eponym, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, lived in San Juan Hill in the 1890s) and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
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