Sun setting on Harlem
- The gang itself is down to three, Rangel, the elder Paterson, and former Mayor David Dinkins. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO
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NEW YORK — The New York Amsterdam News, the creaky weekly newspaper that is the voice of Harlem's political establishment, is making the best of a bad week.
"Paterson Demands Facts, Not Fiction" reads the headline over a defiant picture of New York's sinking governor. Below that, "Rangel Requests Leave of Absence From Chairmanship."
The active verbs did little to conceal what a difficult winter made clear: The sun is setting on Harlem as the seat of New York's black political elite, and the symbolic national center of black po
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