Overview

• Rangel’s casket arrived on June 11 under escort from the 369th Regiment, and New Yorkers queued from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in City Hall’s rotunda to pay their respects.
• The lying in state affords Rangel, known as the “Lion of Lenox Avenue,” the same civic honor previously granted to Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
• He represented Harlem as a Democratic congressman from 1971 to 2017, co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and became the first African American chair of the Ways and Means Committee.
• A Korean War veteran, Rangel earned both the Bronze Star and Purple Heart before launching his nearly 50-year career on Capitol Hill.
• A public Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for June 13 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, with services to be livestreamed for wider attendance.