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Community Board 8 members questioned last week whether the stewards at Van Cortlandt House Museum were the right fit for the community. The New York Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames has been critiqued for a “lack of programming” and their membership criteria, which some have argued is exclusionary to people of color.
The New York City Police Department has spent the past month or so searching for a pair of individuals riding on a dark-colored moped and mugging parkgoers at Van Cortlandt Park for their cell phones.