Charles Rangel's funeral mass signs big names in the New York City Hall, as mourners pay last respect | Today news

Grieving people respected the former American rep. Charles Rangel paid, because his body was lying in New York City Hall on Thursday, an honor awarded to a short list of political figures, including US presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The outspoken, gravel-voting Harlem Democrat died on May 26 at the age of 94 after spending nearly five decades on Capitol Hill. Rangel was one of the longest serving home members, a founding member of the congress Black Caucus and chairman of one of the room’s most powerful committees. On Thursday morning, a small group of mourning paid their respect in the town hall, a landmark Neoclassical building at the foot of the Brooklyn bridge, while the surrounding streets of Lower Manhattan struggled with tourists and workers. The closed coffin of Rangel sat in the marble rotunda of the building with an American flag. The uniform police became starve on either side of him, backed by the flags of the state and the people. The first black mayor of New York, others, others pay last respect for Mike Keogh, a 63-year-old Lobbyist and former city council staff, was among those who knew Rangel personally. “At the time, he had the biggest vote in politics in New York. It was so rich and so full, ‘recalls Keogh. “It just made you feel warm to be around him and really hang on to every word.” Tina Marie grew up in Harlem and remembers Rangel as part of the famous gang of four of the neighborhood – Black Harlemites who rose to the top of city and state politics in the 1970s. The other was David Dinkins, the first black mayor of New York; Percy Sutton, who was president of Manhattan; and Basil Paterson, a deputy mayor and New York State Secretary. “I couldn’t make the other three people’s funerals, so I wanted to pay my respect,” says Marie, who now works for the state education department, steps off the town hall. “I didn’t agree with all the things they did, but they got up for people who couldn’t stand up for themselves.” Louisa Ruiz, 75, voluntarily called Rangel’s first congressional campaign in 1970. “We were out at 6 o’clock in the morning and distributed the scattered butt, and then again at 6 o’clock in the afternoon, you went back,” the native of the Dominican Republic said. Lincoln, Grant, other presidents lie in the state in the town hall, except the president Lincoln and Grant, the others awarded the town hall honors after death, the statesman Henry Clay, newspaper publisher Horace Greeley and civil war, and Joseph Hooker. The last person to lie in the town hall was city councilor James Davis, who was killed in 2003 by a political opponent in the council of the council, on the floor above the Rotunda, who opened to the public on Thursday morning to give their respect to rank. A WOULD CERTIFICATE was held in the evening with Pallers representing the 369th regiment, a whole black unit from the First World War, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. New York politicians who spoke during the ceremony remember Rangel as an tireless civil servant. “I think of so many times when Charlie Rangel had the right thing to say, you did something you didn’t think you wanted to do, and it seemed like it was your idea,” Hilary Rodham Clinton said. Clinton remembers with a smile how ranked her relentlessly to run for the Senate seat she won in 2000. Rangel’s funeral will be found in the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan farm and will be open to the public as well as alive. On Tuesday, a wake of a church in Harlem, the upper Manhattan neighborhood where the ‘Lion of Lenox Avenue’ was born and raised. Rangel’s body arrived at the town hall on Wednesday, where there was a private evening for his family. The Korean war veterinarian defeated legendary Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell in 1970 to begin his congressional career. Rangel became the dean of the New York Congress delegation and the first Afro -American who chaired the mighty Ways and Means Committee in 2007. He was censored by his fellow members of the home in 2010 – the most serious punishment of eviction – to an ethical scandal. Rangel renounced his post from the House’s Chief Tax Committee, but continued to serve until his retirement in 2017. Home-minority leader Hakem Jeffries, also a New York Democrat, praised Rangel as a ‘Patriot, Hero, Statesman, Leader, Trailblazer, Change Agent and Champion for Justice.