{"id":269,"date":"2024-07-18T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=269"},"modified":"2024-07-18T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:16:29","slug":"new-york-amsterdam-news-a-birthday-salute-and-a-way-for-david-n-dinkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/07\/18\/new-york-amsterdam-news-a-birthday-salute-and-a-way-for-david-n-dinkins\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Amsterdam News: A birthday salute and a \u2018way\u2019 for David N. Dinkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2024\/07\/18\/former-mayor-david-dinkins-97th-birthday-celebrated-at-reiverside-church\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By <strong>Herb Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Bill Moore<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Wednesday (July 10), Councilmember Shaun Abreu and the David Dinkins family invited dignitaries and community leaders to Riverside Church to celebrate what would have been the 97th birthday of the city\u2019s first Black mayor. As the world knows, Dinkins joined the ancestors in 2020 after distinguishing himself in a variety of services to the nation. Those memorable moments were invoked by a coterie of relatives, colleagues, and close associates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual renaming of the street at the intersection of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue to David N. Dinkins Way occurred earlier, but his birthday was another tribute to his historic contributions to the city. One table near the podium, where Robin Bell-Stevens emceed the event, was emblematic of Dinkins\u2019s power and renown: former Rep. Charles Rangel, the Honorable Hazel Dukes, former Governor David Paterson, and Harlem\u2019s political icon Assemblywoman Inez Dickens\u2014were often saluted and given several rounds of applause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI thank you so much for allowing me to share my memories of your father with this role in this room of amazing people, of leaders and friends and mentors whose shoulders I stand on,\u201d said Mayor Eric Adams, summarizing what others had said earlier. He recounted how children had told him that Dinkins had allowed them to come inside and experience what it was like to govern the city. \u201cI just love him so much\u2026his picture is on my desk,\u201d Adams concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy grandad loved the city,\u201d Jamaal Hoggard said of Dinkins. \u201cMore importantly, he loved the people who make the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney General Letitia James, City Council President Adrienne Adams, and Abreu were among the speakers, all of whom extended their gratitude to a man who always hoped he had left nothing in arrears on his departure. Some of his majesty and hallmarks were captured in a proclamation read by Keisha Sutton-James, the granddaughter of Percy E. Sutton, one of the legendary Gang of Four iof Rangel, Basil Paterson, and\u2014of course\u2014Dinkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2024\/07\/18\/former-mayor-david-dinkins-97th-birthday-celebrated-at-reiverside-church\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <\/strong><strong>Herb Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Bill Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday (July 10), Councilmember Shaun Abreu and the David Dinkins family invited dignitaries and community leaders to Riverside Church to celebrate what would have been the 97th birthday of the city\u2019s first Black mayor. As the world knows, Dinkins joined the ancestors in 2020 after distinguishing himself in a variety of services to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/07\/18\/new-york-amsterdam-news-a-birthday-salute-and-a-way-for-david-n-dinkins\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}