Sign of the times: Hector “Macho” Camacho’s mother, Maria Matias, holds the commerative street sign, flanked by Hector Jr. (with cap) and Elsie Encarnacion. T. Gerbasi
“This is Spanish Harlem, and nobody got a knife?”
Laughter filled the James Weldon Johnson Community Center, in El Barrio, as Elsie Encarnacion struggled to open the box holding the commemorative version of the street sign unveiled moments earlier, which declared the corner of Lexington Avenue and 115th Street “Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho Way,” in honor of the late boxing Hall of Famer who called the neighborhood home.
That joke, uttered by a Camacho friend,
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