Mayor Eric Adams and city Police Commissioner Edward Caban were inducted Master Masons in a secret ceremony at Gracie Mansion Saturday that was left off his public schedule.
The Prince Hall Masonic Temple — also known as African American Freemasonry —of the event on its Facebook page over the weekend and celebrated Adams’ ascension.
“Brothers and Sisters, today we held an occasional Grand Lodge with the Grand Line officers and Brothers for the first time in history at Gracie Mansion,” the post read.The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge has multiple connections to the NYPD. Kevin Wardally, the head of the NYPD’s office of intergovernmental affairs, is one of the lodge’s officers, a grand junior warden.Mayor Eric Adams and city Police Commissioner Edward Caban were inducted Master Masons in a secret ceremony at Gracie Mansion.The Prince Hall Masonic Temple — also known as African American Freemasonry — posted the photos of the event on its Facebook page.
Some famous Prince Hall Masons include Andrew Young, “Count” Basie, Henry Blair, “Nat King” Cole, W.E.B. DuBois, Edward Kennedy, “Duke” Ellington, Medgar Evers, Alex Haley, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jack Johnson, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, comedian Richard Pryor, retired Congressman Charles Rangel, boxing legend “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Booker T. Washington and former Governor David Paterson.
There are also two female-only Mason Grand Lodges: The Order of Women Freemasons and HFAF – Freemasonry for Women.City Hall declined comment on the mayor’s induction at the private Gracie Mansion ceremony, and why it was left off his public schedule.
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