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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “My father started a project [in Bed Stuy] in 1966, and it's…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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And do you know Restoration Plaza? That part of Bed Stuy? What neighborhood? It's near Atlantic Avenue. York. I know Atlantic Avenue very well. I lived on Atlantic Avenue, and My father started a project [in Bed Stuy] in 1966, and it's still there today. It's a community development project. And they built a skating rink. But we built the first grocery store there. And before we built that, the pathway, our Pathmark. (07:19–07:24)

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