He made 74th Street, beginning at the East River, the southern border patent line (which was called the "Harlem Line") of the village of Nieuw Haarlem (later, the village of Harlem); the British also renamed the village "Lancaster".
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Izola Curry plunged a letter opener into the chest of the reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on September 20, 1958, at book-signing in a Harlem department store.