New York City honours Gloria DeNard
A street naming ceremony is set to be held in New York City, Sunday 11 October 2026, to mark the official designation of Lexington Avenue between - 106th Street and 107th - as Gloria DeNard Way.
Timings of the opening ceremony are TBC - WTS.
The designation is a fitting tribute to a woman who did so much for local communities in East Harlem and for those far beyond her own neighbourhood. She was a singer and musician - aka The Bel Canto of East Harlem - and the founder of The Manna House Workshops - an accessible music and dance school in East Harlam focussed on jazz, that saved and enriched lives, produced many great performers and showed profound leadership and vision at a time of immense challenge for her and her community.
To find out more about Gloria and The Manna House Workshops - see my film on this unique individual and her music and dance school - ‘Manna - Jazz and Survival in East Harlem’ -
Gloria’s obituary in the New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/arts/gloria-denard-dead.html