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A COLD DAY IN HARLEM finds a woman collecting signatures for yet another idealistic endeavor. She's from the Public Coalition of Improvements and Renovations, and her petition is in support of the One Manhattan Project. "We want to reunify all of Manhattan after 9/11," she explains. "We feel like a lot of neighborhoods have been fragmented and lost their tourist and business dollars. We think it would be a good idea if we reestablish all the original avenue names." In particular, the proposal calls for Harlem streets bearing names such as Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to be assimilated into the numbered avenues found throughout Manhattan, in ...