Name Frederick Zinsser | ||
Frederick G. Zinsser was a resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York who opened a chemical plant on the waterfront of the Hudson River, producing a wood alcohol known as Hastings Spirits. The plant was sold to Harshaw Chemical Company in 1955.
The Zinsser plant attracted Hungarians, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, and Russians who immigrated for work.
Zinsser Park, in northwestern Hastings between Broadway and the Old Croton Aqueduct, is named for him.
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