From the Brooklyn Docks to the State Supreme Court Recalling Frank Barbaro's Radical Life
Frank Barbaro, a working-class champion whose long life spanned the Brooklyn docks, the New York State Assembly, and the State Supreme Court, died September 2016. Barbaro was the last link to the tradition of working-class radicalism exemplified by his hero, Vito Marcantonio, the US Congressman from East Harlem. Born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents from Sicily and Calabria, he maintained a lifelong commitment to fighting on behalf of working people, tenants, and the poor, as well as for women’s and gay rights.