<P> The Ice Trust Scandal destroyed Van Wyck's political career and was generally reckoned to have cost Tammany the elections of 1901, which was won by the Fusion reformist slate led by Seth Low . Two years later, the New York Times characterized the Van Wyck administration as one mired in "black ooze and slime". Governor Theodore Roosevelt initiated an investigation, which determined that Van Wyck had not been personally implicated in the Ice Trust Scandal . </P> <P> Van Wyck and his wife enjoyed traveling . In 1906, they moved to Paris, France . He died there at the age of 69 on November 14, 1918 . The funeral was held at American Holy Trinity Church . His body was returned to New York and he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City . </P> <Ul> <Li> MS 217 in Queens is the Robert A. Van Wyck Middle School </Li> <Li> The Jamaica--Van Wyck station of the New York City Subway in Queens </Li> <Li> The Van Wyck Expressway runs in a north - south direction through Queens from John F. Kennedy International Airport in the south to the Whitestone Expressway in the north </Li> </Ul> <Li> MS 217 in Queens is the Robert A. Van Wyck Middle School </Li>

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