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Maria Callas

Callas grew up on 192nd Street in Washington Heights after her father opened a pharmacy in Manhattan.

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Maria Callas in a 1958 television appearance
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Wikipedia says the opera singer was born in New York in 1923 to Greek parents and that, when she was four, her father opened his own pharmacy and settled the family on 192nd Street in Washington Heights, where she grew up. NYPL’s Fort Washington Library page lists Callas among its notable past users.