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The COVID Crsis: BP Gale Brewer Distributes 50,000 Face Masks Uptown And Around Town

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Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer today received and distributed 50,000 face masks donated by the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA). Continue Reading →

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Join The Reunion Celebration Of The Riverton Houses’ 70th Anniversary In Harlem

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During the summer of 1972, a group men and women who spent a significant part of their childhood and adolescent years in the Riverton Houses in Harlem decided to have an old-timers basketball reunion in the Riverton Playground. Continue Reading →

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Harlem’s Samuel Riley “Silent Sam” Pierce, 1922 – 2000

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New York City -- Donald S. Stralem, Chairman of the New York City USO Committee, announces that Judge Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr. of the Court of General Sessions has accepted his invitation to serve as a member of this Committee. January 05, 1960. (Photo by Barney Stein/New York Post Archives / (c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)

Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr., September 8, 1922 – October 31, 2000, was a Harlemite who was Ronald Reagan‘s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from January 23, 1981 until January 20, 1989. Continue Reading →

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