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    Snug Harbor: New York's Link to the Past

    By SnugHarborCC  |  Posted May 15, 2009  
     

    The brainchild of Captain Robert Richard Randall, the attractively named Sailors Snug Harbor was the US's first - and only - home for retired merchant seamen when it opened in 1833.

    A privately endowed institution offering lodging, food, healthcare, and companionship for 'aged, decrepit and worn-out sailors', something like 1,000 residents were living on the site in 1900, although the introduction of a Social Security system in the US saw numbers declining to less than 200 by the mid-1950s.

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