Aurelia Greene

Aurelia Greene (October 26, 1934 – May 8, 2021) was an American politician who represented District 77[2] in the New York State Assembly, which comprises the Highbridge, Morrisania, and Morris Heights sections of The Bronx.

[2] She was also once the Chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs & Protection and Subcommittee on Adult Education.

She was the Speaker Pro Tempore and the Ranking Member of both the Education Committee and Chairwoman of the Assembly's Bronx delegation.

Aurelia Greene supported neighborhood schooling in 1968 during the Ocean-Hill Brownsville crisis.

In March 1990, Greene, along with her husband and a former Bronx school superintendent, were acquitted of criminal charges "stemming from the removal of a baby grand piano" from a public school adjacent to the house of the Greene family in 1983.