‘Grandstanding’ Harlem pol Bill Perkins may have killed neighborhood’s National Urban League project
City and state want civil rights group to build a big center and museum. But local mom-and-pop stores worry they'll be pushed aside.
Comments (2)By Kenneth Lovett AND Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 2:57 PM
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The plan calls for a $225 million headquarters and museum built by the National Urban League, currently based in the Wall Street area, to rise on W.125th St. in Harlem — but opposition by state Sen. Bill Perkins (below) may put the kibosh on it.
Uptown resistance may have killed Harlem’s chance of hosting a new headquarters for a famed civil rights group and a national museum of black history, sources told The Daily News.
Two state officials said Thursday they might now move the National Urban League’s $225 million retail, office and museum project to Brooklyn, thanks to opposition from local businesses and state Sen. Bill Perkins.
“Right now we're looking away from Harlem,” one official told The News.
Two state officials said Thursday they might now move the National Urban League’s $225 million retail, office and museum project to Brooklyn, thanks to opposition from local businesses and state Sen. Bill Perkins.
“Right now we're looking away from Harlem,” one official told The News.
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