NEW YORK—March is Women’s History Month. This national celebration, established in 1981, used to be a weeklong event, but in 1987, the National Women’s History Project petitioned Congress to extend the holiday for the entire month of March.
In Brooklyn, 33 women were honored by the County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes on March 5. Among the honored were volunteers, counselors, advocates, community leaders, publishers, teachers, and others who sacrificed their time and hard work to help people in their communities.
This year marks the seventh time the D.A.’s office held the annual Extraordinary Women’s event. A huge calendar was installed in the lobby of 350 Jay Street with a different woman’s picture for each day. The women, who were selected from over 100 submissions, gathered in the lobby to hear Hynes offer his congratulations.
