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Mario Angelo Procaccino (September 5, 1912 – December 20, 1995) was an Italian-American lawyer, comptroller, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. Life and career. Procaccino was born in Bisaccia, Italy. When he was nine years old, his family immigrated to the United States.
Jun 16, 2020 · Mario Angelo Procaccino strode down Fulton Street, waving to onlookers and shaking hands. Accompanied by his running mate for city council president, Abraham Beame; his teenage daughter, Marierose; and a cabal of campaign staff, the Democratic candidate for mayor seemed at home in the working-class shopping center in Downtown Brooklyn. [1]
Mario A. Procaccino, an immigrant's son from the Bronx who tapped the resentments of disaffected New Yorkers from outside Manhattan in a colorful but unsuccessful bid to wrest the mayoralty...
May 10, 2016 · When the New Deal Order first began to fall apart at the seams during the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, a New York City political apparatchik from the Bronx named Mario Procaccino...
- East Harlem Neighborhoods Faced Neglect
- The Garbage Offensive Begins
- Mayoral Race Helps Spur Response
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A New York Daily Newsspecial series on blight in East Harlem confirmed the grievances. The March 1969 report described the “horror” of tons of rotting garbage in the neighborhood’s 40-square-block zone, where uncollected trash lingered for weeks at a time. The 160 streets surveyed were rarely swept and had only six garbage receptacles in a district...
Armed with brooms pilfered from the sanitation depot, the Young Lords swept sections of the neighborhood during three consecutive Sunday mornings in mid-July and August. They then piled the refuse on sidewalks—and waited. When no sanitation workers picked up the garbage, the Young Lords took it and dumped it in the middle of the street. For good me...
The timing of the Garbage Offensive was key. Referring to the upcoming mayoral race of 1969 between incumbent Republican Mayor John Lindsay and Democratic challenger Mario Procaccino, the New York Timesreported that “dirty streets may be the third issue in this campaign...” When Procaccino wrote a position paper on what it would take to keep the ci...
The Young Lords were a group of Puerto Rican youth who protested against the city's sanitation neglect in East Harlem in 1969. They piled and burned garbage in the streets, demanding better services and representation, and sparking a movement for social justice.
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(28 Oct 1969) new york: scenes of mario procassino campaigning: nxc 1184 "procaccino" shows: ms mario procaccino in cab bg sof: crowd: procaccino and cro...
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Dec 20, 1995 · Mario Angelo Procaccino was an Italian-American lawyer, comptroller, and candidate for Mayor of New York City.
