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2 unusual facts about East Harlem


Dawnay Day

Dawnay Day has been criticized and opposed for its purchase of 47 apartment buildings in East Harlem where it has attempted to gentrify the area and make rents unaffordable to current poor residents.

Don Armando

Don Armando (Sonny) Bonilla was born and raised in East Harlem, NYC, the eldest sibling of a family composed of five sons of a Puerto Rican father and a Colombian mother.


Adam Clayton Powell IV

From 1992–1997, he served as New York City Council Member representing East Harlem and parts of the Upper West Side and the South Bronx.

Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis

Dimitri is currently N'ganga-in-residence for drug users at New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE), a New York needle exchange working with homeless, formerly incarcerated, and HIV-positive people in East Harlem and The Bronx.

Laura Pedersen

She teaches at the Booker T. Washington Learning Center in East Harlem, belongs to the Authors Guild, the international literary association P.E.N., and is an honorary member of the Twentieth Century Club.

Manhattan School of Music

Initially located at the Union Settlement Association on East 104th St in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood, the school moved into a brownstone building at East 105th St.

Metropolitan Hospital Center

Metropolitan Hospital Center is the first hospital in East Harlem designated as a stroke center by the New York State Department of Health.


see also

Jack Agüeros

Agüeros also wrote "Halfway to Dick and Jane," an essay on his childhood in East Harlem that was included in The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American, a collection published in 1971 by the Dial Press that also featured contributions from Czesław Miłosz and Mario Puzo.

Marin City, California

Tupac Shakur After being born and living his early life in East Harlem, Tupac and his family relocated to Marin City in 1988.

Narducci

Kathrine Narducci (born August 12, 1965 in East Harlem, New York City), an American actress