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Legendary NYC news anchor Pablo Guzman, dubbed 'the boy of nan Bronx', has died aged 73.
Guzman died connected Sunday greeting from a abrupt bosom onslaught aft decades of reporting connected politics, crime, and nan historical improvement of nan city.
He leaves down his woman Debbie, his children Daniel and Angela, and his mother Sally.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams paid tribute to nan legendary New Yorker connected X, formerly Twitter.
He wrote: 'Pablo Guzmán was a boy of nan Bronx who said truth to powerfulness and held leaders to account'.
Guzman died connected Sunday greeting from a abrupt bosom onslaught aft decades of reporting connected politics, crime, and nan historical improvement of nan city
CBS 2 newsman Tony Aiello called Guzman nan 'real deal'. 'Pablo Guzmán packed 150 years worthy of life into 73,' Aiello wrote connected X, formerly Twitter
NYC Mayor Eric Adams wrote connected X: 'Pablo Guzmán was a boy of nan Bronx who said truth to powerfulness and held leaders to account'
'Our metropolis is simply a amended spot because of nan activity he did and he will beryllium genuinely missed. Rest successful peace.'
Guzman's astir caller domiciled was arsenic a elder analogous for CBS.
He worked astatine WNEW-TV Channel 5 starting from 1984 earlier taking connected a domiciled astatine WNBC successful 1992.
During his clip at WNBC-TV, Guzman received an Emmy Award for his reporting connected nan execution of a New York City Police Department officer.
He besides interviewed a number of A-list celebrities, specified arsenic Spike Lee, Robert DeNiro, Sting, Carlos Santana, John Fogerty,
He past moved to CBS 2 a fewer years later for astir 16 years.
Guzman graduated from Bronx High School of Science and he attended nan State University of New York astatine Old Westbury.
He became a laminitis of nan Young Lords, a thoroughfare pack formed by Puerto Ricans successful Chicago that evolved into a divers revolutionary civilian authorities group progressive during nan 1960s and '70s.
Pablo (Yoruba) Guzman, Minister of Information for nan Puerto Rican activistic group Young Lords, gestures astatine a news convention successful nan First Spanish United Methodist Church, which nan Young Lords had taken over, successful New York City connected January 3, 1970
Fred Hampton, left, president of nan Black Panthers, speaks during a property convention pinch nan Young Lords connected Oct. 10, 1969, astatine Holy Covenant United Methodist Church successful Chicago. With Hampton are, from left, Pablo 'Yoruba' Guzman, a Young Lord from New York; Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, laminitis of nan Young Lords of Chicago; and Mike Klonsky, a spokesperson for Students for a Democratic Society
It campaigned for Puerto Rican independence, state of governmental prisoners, and withdrawal of subject troops from Puerto Rico, Vietnam, and different areas. The Young Lords besides advocated for alteration successful their section communities.
Guzman also wrote for respective publications, including Billboard, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and nan New York Daily News.
'The seasoned journalist covered crime, section politics, nan courts, and, of course, his beloved New York Yankees,' CBS 2 wrote successful an article announcing his death.
'I ne'er knew what was going to travel retired of his mouth,' CBS 2 anchor Cindy Hsu added.
'Pablo was truthful original, and is going to beryllium missed,' Hsu said. 'He knew everybody.'
News Director Sarah Burke said Guzman was capable to bring retired 'the champion successful people', noting that 'people really trusted him'.
CBS 2 newsman Tony Aiello called Guzman nan 'real deal'.
'Pablo Guzmán packed 150 years worthy of life into 73,' Aiello wrote connected X.
'His reporting pulsed pinch a vitality earned connected nan streets of El Barrio. He covered historical events, and pinch nan Young Lords he authored a unsocial section of NYC's ain history. Pablo was nan existent deal. Rest successful peace.'
