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FULTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Fulton Correctional Facility is named after the street it is on. And the street was named after Robert
Fulton, American inventor and engineer who designed the first efficient steam boat, thus ushering in a new era of power - driven navigation. On August 18, 1807 Fulton's Clermont made its famous successful run of 150 miles from New York City to Albany in 32 hours,
heretofore a trip which would have taken four days.
The building itself, at 1511 Fulton Avenue, at the southwest comer of Crotona Park, was built in 1907. It has had four separate and distinct owners and operations prior to becoming a correctional facility in 1975.
While each of these tenants -- a church home, a Y, a nursing home and a drug treatment facility -- were
unique unto themselves, they all shared, as we do now, one common goal: And while the community has certainly changed over the years, the focus on helping the people in the community has remained constant. |
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