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Norman Bernstein, D.C. real estate developer and philanthropist, dies at 100 Harrison Smith Norman Bernstein, a Washington real estate developer and philanthropist who championed Jewish causes and housing desegregation, encouraging local property owners to open their apartment buildings to African Americans in the early 1960s, died July 5 at his home in the District. He was 100. The cause was pneumonia, said his son Joshua Bernstein. A son of Jewish immigrants from present-day Lithuania, Mr. Bernstein launched his real estate career in 1940, at age 19, raising money fr...

Renovated HomeFront FreeStore reopens in Trenton Today 12:04 PM Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora, left, cuts the ribbon at HomeFront’s refurbished FreeStore at 1000 Division St. on Thursday, April 22, joined by HomeFront chief operating officer Sarah Steward, FreeStore manager Maria Sierra and HomeFront director of construction Celia Bernstein.Photo by Meg Cubano Facebook Share A ribbon-cutting ceremony was conducted Thursday, April 22, to celebrate the grand reopening of HomeFront’s newly renovated FreeStore at 1000 Division St. Using a HomeFront Community Development Block Grant awarded fro...