East Harlem’s Vito Anthony Marcantonio, Seven-Term U.S. Congressman (Video)
Vito Anthony Marcantonio, December 10, 1902 – August 9, 1954, was an Italian-American lawyer and communist politician.
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East Harlem’s Vito “I Vote My Conscience” Marcantonio (Video)
Harlem’s Vito Anthony Marcantonio, December 10, 1902 – August 9, 1954, was an Italian-American lawyer and democratic socialist politician. Originally a member of the Republican Party and a supporter of Fiorello LaGuardia, he switched to the American Labor Party.
The Little Italy of East Harlem, 1890
“This (Italian) section of East Harlem was developed during the 1880s with the familiar New York brownstone residences and walk-up apartments,” states New York Then and Now.