Miriam Friedlander was an American politician from the Bronx who represented New York City's Lower East Side and Chinatown in the New York City Council from 1974 to 1991.
10 Facts About Miriam Friedlander
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Miriam Friedlander's father, David Sigel, was an office worker, insurance salesman, and political activist in the immigrant foreign language clubs.
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Miriam Friedlander moved with her family to The Bronx as at the age of five in 1919.
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Miriam Friedlander graduated from Evander Childs High School in 1931 and New York University's College of Education in 1935.
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In 1939, she married Mark Miriam Friedlander, and their son Paul was born in New York City in 1943.
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In 1962, Friedlander was one of ten US Communist Party officials told by Attorney General Robert F Kennedy to register with the Subversive Activities Control Board.
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Miriam Friedlander was identified as a member of the New York party committee.
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In 1973, Miriam Friedlander won the Democratic primary for the 2nd district of the City Council, which then included SoHo, Chinatown, the East Village and the Lower East Side, by a mere 48 votes, defeating four opponents.
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Miriam Friedlander had to defend her seat the following year, due to a court-ordered legislative reapportionment.
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Miriam Friedlander was a real brawler as a politician, and she fought fiercely in what she believed in.