Congresswoman Bella Abzug Won't Be Marginalized

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Eleanor S. Fischer
NYPR Archives & Preservation | Apr 30, 2014

In March, 1972, reporter Eleanor Fischer interviewed Congresswoman Bella Abzug as she was fighting to hold on to her Congressional district in Manhattan encompassing, in part, the Battery, the Lower East Side, Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village and Chelsea.

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