{"id":3635,"date":"2020-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:04:43","slug":"arlene-stringer-cuevas-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Arlene Stringer-Cuevas, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arlene Stringer-Cuevas \u2011 an American politician, educator, and civil servant – died from coronavirus on April 3, 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

She was a schoolteacher before serving on the New York City Council from 1976 to 1977. Stringer-Cuevas later worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration for 16 years until her retirement in 1994. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stringer-Cuevas was born Arlene Gluss in the Bronx in New York City, New York, and was a school teacher. She lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She was Jewish.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stringer-Cuevas served as her neighborhood's Democratic Party district leader from 1969 to 1976. She was elected to the New York City Council in 1976 after winning a four-person primary for the Democratic nomination, becoming the first woman to represent Washington Heights. Stringer-Cuevas was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1977.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stringer-Cuevas then worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration from 1978 until her retirement in 1994.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stringer-Cuevas was part of a politically active family. Her first husband, Ronald Stringer, was an assistant to New York City Mayor Abraham Beame. Her second husband, Carlos Cuevas, was the New York City Clerk and a Deputy Borough President of the Bronx. Stringer-Cuevas' son Scott Stringer was elected Borough President of Manhattan and New York City Comptroller. She was the cousin of politician women's rights pioneer Bella Abzug.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On April 3, 2020, at the age of 86, Stringer-Cuevas died from complications due to COVID-19 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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