In what its chairman Walter Ward termed a rare unanimous vote, the nine members of New York City Council’s Parks Committee voted last Thursday to name the stairway at the Isaiah Peace Wall opposite the United Nations in honor of Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Shcharansky.
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