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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Stapleton resident Jimmy Wright, 82, vividly remembers spending hot summer nights “hanging out” on the fire escape of his apartment building’s roof while growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and early 1950s.
“That’s when Harlem was a real village, and everybody knew each other,” he recalled…