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She Built NYC Public Nominations

Rank Nominee Votes

1 Francesca Xavier Cabrini 219 2 Jane Jacobs 93 3 Shirley Anita Chisholm 91 4 Janet Schenck 88 5 Katherine Walker 68 6 Emily Warren Roebling 67 7 Marsha P. Johnson 65 8 61 9 42 10 40 11 37 12 33 13 33 14 Augusta Savage 31 15 27 16 26 17 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 26 18 25 19 Rivera 21 20 Shavelson 20 21 Marianne Moore 19 22 Elizabeth Jennings Graham 17 23 Audre 17 24 16 25 13 26 13 27 Jacques Marchais 13 28 Lady Deborah Moody 13 29 Alice Austen 12 30 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 12 31 Graham 11 32 10 33 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 9 34 9 35 Dr. 8 36 Margaret Corbin 8 37 Immigrant Women 8 38 7 39 Antonia Pantoja 7 40 7 41 Betty Blayton Taylor 7 42 Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias 7 43 Truth 7 44 Suffragettes 7 45 7 46 Red Burns 6 47 Miriam Colón 6 48 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton 6 49 Mary Lindley Murray 6 50 Dorothy Parker 6 51 Madam C.J. Walker 6 52 Pura Belpré 5 53 Bonnie Cashin 5 54 5 55 5 56 5 57 5 58 Susan Maria McKinney Steward 5 59 Stonewall Riots 5 60 Betty Smith 5 61 Ida B Wells 5 62 Apgar 4 63 Susan B Anthony 4 64 Boissevain 4 65 4 66 4 67 Elizabeth Gloucester 4 68 Grete Waitz 4 69 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 4 70 Evelina Lopez Antonetty 3 71 Ella Josephine Baker 3 72 The Black Angels 3 73 Emily Dunning Barringer 3 74 Liz Christy 3 75 Domestic Workers 3 76 Dr. Yvette Fay Francis 3 77 3 78 Hetty Green 3 79 Guerrilla Girls 3 80 Indigenous Women 3 81 3 82 Dr. Mina S Rees 3 83 3 84 Ellen Stewart 3 85 Edie Windsor 3 86 Women of World War II 3 87 2 88 Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton 2 89 2 90 Eunice Carter 2 91 Jayne Cortez 2 92 Stormé DeLarverie 2 93 Beavers Earle 2 94 2 95 Catherine "Katie" Ferguson 2 96 Ella Jane Fitzgerald 2 97 Margaret Fuller 2 98 NYC Women Firefighters 2 99 Rose Gruening 2 100 Peggy Guggenheim 2 101 Mary Harriman 2 102 2 103 Ada Huxtable 2 104 Elisabeth Irwin 2 105 2 106 Frida Khalo 2 107 Mathilde Krim 2 108 Irma Lozada 2 109 Jean McFaddin 2 110 Mills 2 111 Anne Carroll Moore 2 112 Audrey Munson 2 113 Linda Nochlin 2 114 Molly Picon 2 115 2 116 2 117 Myrtle E Ross 2 118 2 119 Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch 2 120 Single Mothers 2 121 of 2 122 The Blessed “ Mary” 2 123 Charlotte Spiegel 2 124 Florine Stettheimer 2 125 Mae West 2 126 Rosalyn Yalow 2 127 1 128 Abigail Hopper Gibbons 1 129 Adelaide L. Sanford 1 130 Adele Katz Goldstine 1 131 1 132 1 133 Aileen Ryan 1 134 Alice Neel 1 135 1 136 Andrea Dworkin 1 137 Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo 1 138 Ann Lohman 1 139 Anne Devenney 1 140 Anne Morgan 1 141 Antonia Yuille Williams 1 142 Arvelia Myers 1 143 Audley Moore 1 144 Barbara M. Clark 1 145 Beate Sirota Gordon 1 146 Beatrice Arthur 1 147 Belle Moskowitz 1 148 1 149 1 150 Betty Parsons 1 151 Betty Shabazz 1 152 Robles-Roman 1 153 Caroline Ferriday 1 154 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt 1 155 Cathay Williams 1 156 Cathleen Synge Morawetz 1 157 Cecilia Benattar 1 158 1 159 Charlotte Ray 1 160 Clara Hale 1 161 Clare Boothe-Luce 1 162 Connie Kurtz 1 163 Cynthia Leonard 1 164 Diane Arbus 1 165 Djuna Barnes 1 166 Doris Rosenblum 1 167 Dorothy Fields 1 168 1 169 Dr. 1 170 Dr. 1 171 Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau 1 172 Dr. Josephine English 1 173 Dr. Leona Baumgartner 1 174 Eleanor Anderson Campbell 1 175 Edna St. Vincent Millay 1 176 Elisabeth Bing 1 177 Elizabeth Burgin 1 178 Elizabeth Coit 1 179 Elizabeth Curtis Burrell 1 180 Ellen Lurie 1 181 1 182 Emma Stebbins 1 183 1 184 Ethel Rosenberg 1 185 F.A. Hayek 1 186 1 187 Fannie Schwedler Barnes 1 188 Fanny Wright 1 189 Fay Kellogg 1 190 Frannie Fredericka Dyckman Welch 1 191 Frieda Zames 1 192 Ganga Stone 1 193 Gertrude B. Elion 1 194 Gertrude Berg 1 195 Gertrude Schimmel 1 196 1 197 Gretta Moulton 1 198 Gwendolyn Braxton 1 199 Hannah Arendt 1 200 Hanna Mayer Stone 1 201 Hettie Anderson 1 202 Hildegard E. Peplau 1 203 Hildreth Meiere 1 204 Ida Van Smith 1 205 Ilonka Karasz 1 206 Isabel González 1 207 Isabella Goodwin 1 208 1 209 Jane Colden 1 210 Jane Shaw 1 211 Jeanne Manford 1 212 Jessie Redmon Fauset 1 213 Joan Mitchell 1 214 Joan Whitney Payson 1 215 Judith Kaye 1 216 Julia Montgomery Walsh 1 217 Kate Spade 1 218 Katherine Cornell 1 219 Kiki Smith 1 220 Hart 1 221 Lillian Lopez 1 222 Lillie P. Bliss 1 223 Lina Rogers Struthers 1 224 Lola Ridge 1 225 Lorraine Monroe 1 226 Lorraine Montenegro 1 227 Margaret Bourke-White 1 228 Margaret Brown 1 229 1 230 Margaret Wise Brown 1 231 Margot Gayle 1 232 1 233 Marian MacDowell 1 234 1 235 Mary Adele Logan 1 236 Mary Alice Dyckman Dean 1 237 Mary Ann Kelly 1 238 Mary Ewing Outerbridge 1 239 Mary Garret Hay 1 240 Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston 1 241 Mary Louise Booth 1 242 Mary Putman Jacobi 1 243 Mary Quinn Sullivan 1 244 Mary Sansone 1 245 Maud Ballington Booth 1 246 1 247 Miriam "Mimi" Schapiro 1 248 Moira Smith 1 249 Monique Massy 1 250 1 251 Nancy Hicks Maynard 1 252 Normandía Maldonado 1 253 Ona Judge 1 254 Pauline Newman 1 255 Phyllis Harrison-Ross 1 256 Priscilla Morgan 1 257 Queen Victoria Spivey 1 258 1 259 Rachel Corrie 1 260 Rosalie Jones 1 261 Rose Cecil O'Neill 1 262 1 263 Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet 1 264 Sarah Kiersted 1 265 Sarah Powell Huntington 1 266 Sarah Scott 1 267 Shulamith Firestone 1 268 Simone Weil 1 269 Sylvia P. Woods 1 270 Thelma Ritter 1 271 Ursula Nordstrom 1 272 Vicky Gholson 1 273 1 274 Yuri Kochiyama 1 6 Enslaved women who were experimented on by James Marion 275 1 Sims 276 Alicia White- Project Petals 1 277 Armenians 1 278 Columba Services 1 279 Domestic Violence Women 1 280 Domestic Violence Women 1 281 Eliza Stebbins "Lize the Bowery Gal" 1 282 First Sexual Harrassment Fight in NYC history 1981-85 1 283 Girl Scouts 1 284 Show Girls 1 285 International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) 1 286 of the City of New York 1 287 McSorley’s Ale House Anti-Discrimation Activists 1 288 Mujeres of the Young Lords 1 289 NYC Missions/Settlement Houses (1893-1908) 1 290 NYC Tradeswomen + Judith Vladeck 1 291 Pioneers of Voguing / Ballroom Scene 1 292 's First African American Rockette 1 293 Roman Catholic “Nuns” 1 294 Settlement Workers 1 295 1 296 Spence-Chapin 1 297 Teachers 1

The Black singers who integrated in NYC and America: 298 1 and

299 The Founders of The New York Women's Foundation 1 300 The 1 301 The nuns and nurses of St. Vincent's Hospital 1 302 The Shapiro Sisters 1 303 The Unknown Woman 1 304 buried in the Slave Burial Ground in upper Mahattan 1 305 The Women of the La Guardia Administration 1 306 The Women of the Supreme Court 1 307 Women and Children 1 308 Women of NYC 1 309 Women of the National Arts Club 1 310 Women Pioneers of Modern Movement 1 311 Women who Helped Build the 1 312 Women who Ride Bicycles 1 313 Woman Who Swam Around the Island of 1 314 Largest IT Transformation In NYC - Epic 1

Nation's First Parade/Nation's First Women's 315 1 (Woman's Progressive Suffrage Union)

Installation of "The Harp" by artist Augusta Savage for the 1939 316 1 Worlds Fair, Flushing

317 The Monument Project 1 Redstockings Speakout at Washington Square 318 1 Methodist Church Elizabeth Jennings Graham and the streetcar of the Third Avenue 319 1 Railroad Company

320 TB-AIDS Diary Exhibition 1 321 Publication of a “Tree Grows in ” 1 322 Hiring for first uniformed female Sanitation Workers 1

Wonderful Wall Street Wednesday's (originally lunch hour of 323 1 power @ Mariner's Temple) 324 Heumann v. Board of Education of 1

Rosalie Gardiner Jones's flight as the first suffrage activist to fly 325 1 for the cause

326 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1

NYC Pooper Scooper Law passed, championed by Fran Lee, 327 consumer