On Sunday (Aug. 10), New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into regulation the renaming of the a hundred and tenth Road-Central Park North subway station to a hundred and tenth Road-Malcolm X Plaza. The renaming is to honor the late revolutionary determine who known as Harlem dwelling throughout his late teenagers and spent in depth time there all through his life earlier than his assassination in 1965.
“Probably the greatest methods to have a good time the wealthy historical past and group of Harlem is to acknowledge the contributions of Malcolm X and the Harlem Renaissance to New York and to the world,” Hochul mentioned on the signing. “From the battle for civil rights and equality to boundary-breaking cultural impacts of American icons like Zora Neale Hurston and Duke Ellington, Harlem has been on the middle of progress in our nation for generations.”
Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was current on the ceremony on Sunday. “It was his unwavering ethical compass rooted in boundless love for us all that gave him this braveness to talk reality to energy, irrespective of the associated fee,” she mentioned of her father to the gang. “Malcolm X stood for freedom and equality, ideas that straight align with our mission at NYC Transit,” mentioned NYC Transit President Demetrius Chrichlow on the occasion. “Now when riders come to the renamed station, they’ll be reminded of its namesake’s unwavering dedication to civil rights and the significance of standing up for what you imagine in.”
The station’s renaming joins different notable landmarks in Harlem that bears the identify of Malcolm X, also called el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. They embrace the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz and the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Different native leaders readily available for the renaming ceremony included metropolis council members Yusef Salaam and New York State Senate Majority Chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins. “We collect not solely to rename a station, however to honor El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, recognized to many as Malcolm X, an American visionary whose name for Black dignity, self-determination, and human rights reshaped this nation’s conscience,” Stewart-Cousins mentioned to the gang.
The ceremony was a part of this 12 months’s Harlem Week celebration, and Governor Hochul additionally signed a proclamation honoring the one hundredth anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance by designating the Harlem Renaissance Cultural District as certainly one of significance within the state. There was additionally a second of silence for Harlem Week co-founder Lloyd A. Williams, who handed away Aug. 5.
