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J. Marion Sims, Surgeon or Monster?
East Harlem - April 27, 2008. A recent poll in the East Harlem Preservation website asks its visitors if the statue of J. Marion Sims should be removed from its present location.
The question is phrased as follows: "Should the NYC Parks Department remove the statue of Dr. Marion Sims from its East Harlem location considering his experiments on female and infant slaves?" Continue Story here
East Harlemites Protest The War
East Harlem - March 24, 2008. Local Community Acitivists took to the streets today and protested the war in Irag. The protesters, six (6) in number began their protests at 1700 hours (5:00 PM for all you civilians out there). They choose to protest in front of the Army Recruiting Center. In the great tradition of all East Harlem protests, this one was peacefull. The protestors main contentions were that the war was illegal and not justified and that our military personnel were being needlessly killed.
In fact... Continue story here
East Harlem.Com Turns 12 Years Old!!
East Harlem - February 25, 2008. Jose B. Rivera, founder and webmaster of East Harlem.com celebrated another year and another milestone. East Harlem.com celebrated it 12th year of existence. It's hard to believe but the local community website has been around since 1996, when the web was young and practically without any graphics. Browsers did not deal with graphics back then.
East Harlem.com was begun when Mr. Rivera failed to get a community newspaper off the ground. "The costs were too high", said Mr. Rivera. "And when the web presented itself I saw it for what it was, an opportunity to publish with a lot lower costs".. Continue story here