Two Harlem Streets Renamed For Civil Rights Leaders
From the NY Times:
On Saturday, two streets in Harlem were named in honor of two civil rights leaders with ties to New York City: A. Philip Randolph and W. E. B. DuBois.
All of 145th Street was named A. Philip Randolph Boulevard, in honor of the labor and political leader. The length of Bradhurst Avenue, running from West 141st Street to 155th Street, was named W. E. B. DuBois Avenue, after the scholar and writer who also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Each man was a longtime resident of Harlem, though neither lived there when he died. “They walked those streets,” said Anthony Harmon, the president of the New York chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. “They were part of that community.” They did not live on the streets that are named after them.
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NIghtowl… you are sooo right! Thats the reason I even looked at this story to see what the streets look like!
My city is going to have an MLK Blvd but it is going through the college district… So I’m hopin it stays nice and that the street pharmisists and street walkers stay in a diff part of the city! lol
That’s great. Now let’s try not to turn them into crime infested war zones like so many Martin Luther King Boulevards are across America, mmmkay?