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Love Letter to New York: Classic LIFE Photos

The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic...

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May 29, 2012

"The fact that nobody contributed to Charlie before reflects the fact that nobody ever felt he needed it."

- GARY ACKERMANDemocratic Representative who made his first donation to Charles Rangel last month. With campaign contributions to Mr. Rangel, the Harlem congressman since 1971, dropping precipitously, his political fate has become a source of concern for colleagues.
March 28, 2008

"They ask me, 'If they send you to the moon, will you go?' I say: 'Absolutely. You have to go everywhere. Life is bigger than Harlem.' "

- SHAKIRA BROWNwho is joining an expedition to Antarctica, on comments from her students at a Harlem middle school
October 08, 2008

"Their absence leaves us scrambling to replace what has been a significant amount of support."

- GEOFFREY CANADA,president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone; he says that Wall Street's "greedy" companies nevertheless made large contributions to nonprofits like his, which may now be affected by the financial collapse

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