Follow up to the Hands Across Harlem item posted last week:
About 100 people turned up at a rally in Harlem on Saturday aimed at blocking the Bloomberg administration’s plan to rezone 125th Street to allow for denser residential and commercial development. But the rally quickly turned into an omnibus protest against everything from Columbia’s Harlem expansion to Robert Mugabe’s teetering government in Zimbabwe.
The Coalition to Save Harlem planned to create a human chain stretching across 125th Street from Second Avenue to Broadway. In the end, “Hands Across Harlem” only spanned about one block of the area to be rezoned, from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard to Lenox Avenue, though we heard one organizer remark that it was a “pretty good turnout.”
After the chain broke up at 1 p.m., demonstrators congregated at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, jangling tambourines, waving pickets, and chanting in unison.
Full story: The New York Observer
Posted on April 14, 2008 by narmer