Editing Abraham Beame (section)

==Personal life==
Beame was married to his childhood sweetheart, Mary (née Ingerman),<ref name=baruch /> for 67 years. They met when Beame was 15, playing checkers at the [[University Settlement Society of New York]].<ref name=remarks /> They raised two sons, Edmond and Bernard (Buddy),<ref name=NYTobit/><ref name=baruch /> and lived in Brooklyn, first in Crown Heights and later in a "modest" apartment on Plaza Street West in Park Slope.<ref name=remarks /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/proteusgowanus/docs/2006_carroll_gardens_historical_notes_robert_furma|title=2006 – Historical notes on Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Flatbush, etc.|website=Issuu|date=July 9, 2010 }}</ref> Throughout his life, Beame summered in the [[Rockaway, Queens|Rockaway]] neighborhood of [[Belle Harbor, Queens|Belle Harbor]].<ref name=remarks />

Beame received the Townsend Harris medal in 1957, and awards from numerous charitable, religious and civic organizations.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1, 2016|title=Beame, Abraham David former mayor|journal=Salem Press Encyclopedia}}</ref>

Beame experienced heart problems in his later years. He had heart attacks in 1991 and 2000. After the second, he was admitted to [[New York University Medical Center]], where he remained for the last months of his life. He underwent open-heart surgery in August and December 2000, and died from surgical complications on February 10, 2001, at the age of 94.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news|author-link=Robert D. McFadden|first=Robert D.|last=McFadden|title=Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/abraham-beame-is-dead-at-94-mayor-during-70-s-fiscal-crisis.html?pagewanted=1|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 11, 2001|page=1|access-date=March 18, 2010 }}</ref>