LOCAL 237 PRESIDENT GREG FLOYD GIVES REMARKS AT A. PHILIP RANDOLPH BOULEVARD AND W.E.B. DUBOIS AVE. STREET NAMING CEREMONY

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Floyd joins Councilman Robert Jackson, UFT President, local NAACP

President, CB 10 Chair, Author David Levering Lewis and Harlem

Historical Society for naming ceremony

NEW YORK—Teamsters Local 237 President Greg Floyd will join a host of

local Harlem civic leaders to help rename 145^th Street and Bradhurst Ave. as

A. Philip Randolph Boulevard and W.E.B. DuBois Ave on Saturday,

November 7^th at 1:00 pm EST. Floyd will make remarks alongside, City

Councilman Robert Jackson, David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning

author, Franc Perry, Chair, Community Board 10, Michael Mulgrew, President,

United Teachers Federation, Dr. Annie B. Martin, President,

New York Branch, NAACP, and Jacob Morris, Director, Harlem Historical Society.

Teamsters Local 237 represents 9,000 employees of the New York City

Housing Authority, another 11,000 members work in New York City agencies,

the Board of Education, New York City Police Department, the City University

of New York and the Health and Hospital Corporation.

	What:	Co-Naming Ceremony of 145^th Street & Bradhurst Ave. as A. Philip Randolph Boulevard & W.E.B. DuBois Ave
	When:	Saturday, November 7^th – 1:00 pm EST
	Where:	145^th Street and Bradhurst Ave, Harlem, NY
	Who:	Teamsters Local 237 President Greg Floyd, City Councilman Robert Jackson, David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Franc Perry, Chair, Community Board 10, Michael Mulgrew, President, United Teachers Federation, Dr. Annie B. Martin, President, New York Branch, NAACP, and Jacob Morris, Director, Harlem Historical Society.