TWU Mourns Passing of Political Friend, Herman “Denny” Farrell

TWU Local 100 mourns the passing of retired Assemblyman Herman “Denny” Farrell, 86, who devoted a remarkable political career to fighting for fairness in housing, jobs and access to credit and home loans for average New Yorkers.

Local 100 President Tony Utano said that Farrell’s death “is a sad day for all New Yorkers, especially New York’s working class and working poor who looked to him for leadership on a host of issues in Albany.”

“Assemblyman Farrell was a true friend of working families, and he was a tower of integrity and honesty in politics. He will be greatly missed.”

Herman D. Farrell Jr., a Fixture of New York Politics, Dies at 86

Herman D. Farrell Jr., a perennial New York State Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan and one of the last survivors of Harlem's political Old Guard, died on Saturday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 86. The cause was heart failure, his son, Herman D. Farrell III, said.