CURRENTLY: The site is a modern, high-rise office building.
COMMEMORATED?: No.
NOTES:
– Blackwell’s Island is today Roosevelt Island. The hospital Stuart was taken to was likely City Hospital, which served prison inmates and the poor.
– This report mis-identifies the location of the Arsenal. It was located on Seventh Avenue at 35th Street.
Augustus Stuart (colored). Died at Hospital, Blackwell’s Island, July 22, from the effects of a blow received at the hands of the mob, on Wednesday evening of Riot Week. He had been badly beaten previously by a band of rioters and was frightened and insane from the effects of the blows which he had received. He was running toward the Arsenal (state), Seventh Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street, for safety, when he was overtaken by the mob, from whom he received his death blow.
