Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is scheduled to be in the city Friday after a two-day break from the campaign trail.
Clinton is slated to make her first stop in Manhattan on Friday morning, a fundraising breakfast at Gotham Hall for the Eagle Academy Foundation, a network of all-boys public schools in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods.
100 black men in law enforcement helped found the foundation.
"I want to just underscore one of the most important messages that I think the Eagle Academy sends: that is, given the right circumstances, given the appropriate adult involvement and attention, every child can succeed," Clinton said at the fundraiser. "We have got to believe that and invest in that."
"One of the things that we did was to go in and meet with Hillary Clinton, who was our senator in New York at the time, and we talked to her about whether or not she would get behind this and, in fact, to support it," said David Banks, a founding member of the academy.
"And what was she supporting? She was supporting a real solution," Banks continued. "A school for boys. We see so many of our young men falling to the waste side, but here was an organization that was going to do something about it."
A public speaking coach who is a consultant at the school said Clinton was an early supporter of the school while she was a New York senator.
"It's definitely not a campaign stop," Rosemarie Rizzo-Tolk said. "I think Hillary loves the school and is really behind the boys, knowing the overwhelming obstacles that boys have in education today, and I think that it is her heart that is speaking."
Clinton later heads to the Children's Museum of Manhattan and then to Queens in the evening for a fundraiser with Reps. Joe Crowley and Grace Meng.