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Article: Harlem Auto Mall features GM dealerships.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Tom Incantalupo
Dec. 8--Occupying a block in upper Manhattan, the Harlem Auto Mall will be a major milestone when it opens early next month in one of America's best known African-American neighborhoods.
The two dealerships in it, handling four General Motors brands, will be the neighborhood's first new-car dealerships in about 50 years. And both will be run by African-Americans, Otis Thornton, who owns a GM dealership in New Jersey, and Craig Lee, who works for the Potamkin Auto Group on 11th Avenue in Manhattan.
But as the finishing touches are put on the Harlem complex, an organization representing minority new car retailers is ...