Word: harlem
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...pardon back in Washington, the former president himself was plotting another brilliant p.r. move a bit further north. Tuesday, sources announced Clinton was abandoning his much-maligned quest for top-floor office space at a pricey midtown office tower in favor of a relative bargain in the heart of Harlem. Where General Accounting Office types and indignant Republicans had been up in arms over the midtown rental specs, Harlem's neighborhood boosters were beside themselves with glee - Clinton's presence on 125th Street was bound to invigorate the local economy and direct the welcome glare of national attention onto...
...Giddins takes a fresh and compelling look at the forgotten first half of Crosby's long career, turning the clock back to the Roaring Twenties to show how Crosby started out as a hard-drinking, hard-swinging jazzman whose nonchalant way with a song was universally regarded, even in Harlem, as the height of hipness...
Sharpton, who is president of the National Action Network (NAN), said he plans to use the Scott case as a prime example of racial stereotyping in his summit, which will be held Oct. 30 at the NAN headquarters in Harlem...
...likes of the Dodgers-Giants rivalry--which admittedly faded after they left Brooklyn and Harlem in 1957--has never been rebuilt in New York. Sure, the Mets have challenged the Braves consistently for the last five years, but that's no rivalry. The Mets didn't even face the Braves in the postseason this year...
Richmond McCoy had come a long way since the days when he marched door to door with his landlord father to collect, or not collect, rent checks in Harlem. His McCoy Realty Group had become the largest real estate management firm controlled by an African American, and his Park Avenue headquarters in Manhattan catered to Wall Street bigs, but that was not enough for McCoy. Spurred by Sterling Green, an apostle of the United House of Prayer in Washington, McCoy, 45, began helping churches develop property in poor neighborhoods. "I felt God was nudging me in a different direction...