Longtime CB6 Member Charles Buchwald Mourned as Tireless Civic Leader
(DNAINFO) Noah Horowitz | December 14, 2015 — Longtime Community Board 6 member and local Democratic political activist Charles Buchwald died on Dec. 3 at the age of 80, after a long life dedicated to his family and his community, according to colleagues.
Buchwald was born in Brooklyn in 1935 and was enthusiastic about politics from an early age, supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt at 5 years old. As a young man, he spent a summer pedaling around the borough in a Good Humor uniform selling ice cream.