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Association of Neighborhood
HOUSing Developers Inc. _ 29 East 22nd Street New York, N.Y. 10010 2126747610 Feb., '76
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PROFILE: A COMMUNITY GROUP:
THE BROOKLYN COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS
Brooklyn Comprehensive Corpora-
tion, based in Fort Greene and
Crown Heights, is struggling for
its survival. Brooklyn' Compre-
hensive Corporation is dedicated
to providing decent housing, on a
non-profit baSis, to low and mod-
erate income families through the
preservation and rehabilitation
of sound older housing and the
construction of new housing whose
design and cost are acceptable to
community residents.
Brooklyn Comprehensive Corpora-
t i on
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was founded in 1973 by Frank
Garrett and Angela Miller and
grew to include six other people
wi th a variety of professional
and para-professional backgrounds.
In addition the Brooklyn Compre-
hensive Cor poration staff has
been supplemented by Neighborhood
Youth Corp and Urban 'Corps stu-
dents recruited from the local
community. Brooklyn Comprehen-
sive's desire was to deal with the
hous ing problems ir. the community
in a positive and 00mprehensive
manneri In particular, they felt
it essential to add a human ele-
ment to planning for the structur-
a l upgrading of housing. This was
an ingredient often missing from
projects in the past. So in addi-
tion to working on innovative de-
sign Brooklyn Comprehensive Corp-
oration places major emphasis on
tenant organizing and personal
counseling. Community involve- .
ment in all aspects of develop-
ment - from early planning and
design, through construction and
With this introductory issue of
"City Limits," the Association is
responding to a need, expressed
at our Retreat last September,for
more communication within and a-
mong people and organizations in
the movement to save and improve
housing for low and moderate in-
come residents of New York City.
We hope that our members and af-
filiate groups as well as others
concerned with our city's housing
problems will find this publica-
tion to be useful.
To insure that it will serve the
community housing movement and. to
make future issues better and
more effective, we urge our read-
ers to keep in touch with us.
Please let us know what you think
of this issue; how should it be
improved; what do you want to see
included in future issues; what
should be left out?
And, of course, we would especial-
ly welcome your suggestions for
specific .articles, reports and the
like. If you have a story or an
article you want to write or to
have written, please let us know.
We would like to include as much
material as possible written or
submitted by others than our own
staff.
Profile: A Community Group(conttd)
eventual management of the new or
rehabilitated housing is the
cornerstone of Brooklyn Compre-
hensive's policy. The founders'
own backgrounds contributed to
the development of this compre-
hensive approach to the housing
problem.
Frank Garrett, President of Brook-
lyn Comprehensive, was born in
Harlem in 1943,and raised.in the
Fort Greene section of Brooklyn.
After completing his studies at
the High School of Industrial Arts
and Pratt Institute, he began work
as an architectural designer for
rirms such as Harrison and Abramo-
vitz, Lundquist and Stonehill.
Eventually his desire to do some-
thing about the worsening housing
situation in Fort Greene led him
to provide volunteer architectur-
al assistance to a number or local
projects such as the Charles Drew
Neighborhood Health Center; and
serving as chairman to a number of
community groups including the
Greene Tradesmen Council and
the Fort Greene Rehabilitation
League.
Angela Miller, Vice-President or
Brooklyn Comprehensiye, moved to
New York rrom Indiana eight years
ago. A graduate or Ball State
majoring in Social
Work, she was employed at the
Brooklyn OL a special
youth counseling pruject rollowed
by work at Park East High School
as a family counselor specializing
in child guidance, and then con-
ducted a study on Post Heroin
Alcohol Dependency on a special
project ror a local community
drug rehabilitation program.
Angie also was increasingly dis-
turbed by the appalling housing
conditions many of her clients
were living in.
Both Angie and Frank are enrolled
at Cornell University' s
tive Extension Tenant Orientation
Program Specialist Training Project.
Frank, Angie and the other founding
members of Brooklyn Comprehensive
have been disappointed by the re-
cent city cutbacks. They hoped
that the city administration,rec-
ognizing the worsening condition
or the housing stock, would rund
infill housing and rehabilitation
projects at an erfective level.
Despite these setbacks, they are
determined to keep working, seek-
ing alternate services of rinanc-
ing and providing services to the
oommunity.
Despite the complete drought or
financing, Brooklyn Comprehensive
can point with pride at their in-
volvement with a number or pro-
jects it has sponsored over the
past three years. In Fort Greene
Brooklyn Comprehensive Corpora-
tion has been working with the
Tri Block Association or Ashland
Place, St. Street and Fort
Greene Place. The residents of
these three streets / range from
young brownstoners to long-time
residents, many or whom are
elderly and living on small, .
fixed incomes. One or these "old-
timers" is a gentle lady by the
name of Peace Love, a
six year old "driving rorce" in
the block. Recently, because of
her inability to pay ror the in-
creaSing costs of oil, taxes and
repairs, Mrs. Love's house was
foreclosed by the city. Brooklyn
Comprehensive is helping Mrs.
Love and other small home owners
and tenants obtain financing ror
rehabilitation and cooperative
conversion, so that Mrs. Love
and others will not have to leave
their homes for the uncertain
existence or lire in a welrare
hotel.
The Tri Block Association and
Brooklyn Comprehensive have work-
ed unceasingly to develop a reas-
ible plan for the blocks.
Although the city has had nothing
but praise for the plan, the com-
munity has received empty prom-
ises regarding the funding and
implementation.
Profile: A Community Group(cont'd)
Brooklyn Comprehensive is also in-
volved in Crown Heights, a desig-
nated Neighborhood Preservation
Area located in central Brooklyn.
Once. again, very little has been
accomplished by the city, which
has been unable to pr'ovide the
necessary funding - even th9ugh
completed plans and specifications
were produced, thanks to seed
money provided by the Consumer
Farmers Foundation, based on the
promise to fund. Nonethe-
less, . Brooklyn Comprehensive is
still attempting to process four
projects comprising 54 units of
renovated, cooperative housing
and 46 units of low-income rental
housing. Even though the pro-
Jects have been approved by HDA's
Preliminary Loan Review Committee,
the tenants are now being told
that there is no more money avail-
able with which to renovate their
apartments.
Fran'k Garrett told us, "How can
the city do this when families
children are suffering not
only from inhuman conditions, but
also from bitter disappointment?
Their hopes have been raised and
now shattered. On February lOth,
I along with those tenants will
demand an explanation from the
Board of Estimate!"
THE STATE LEGISLATURE
A HOUSING STRATEGY FOR 1976
by Michael McKee
Tenants and tenant organizations
are traditionally mistrustful of
the process and have
chosen to ignore it rather than
run the risk of contamination by
getting involved in it. I believe
this is a serious mistake. As un-
savory as our legislative system
i 's , it is as important for people
to deal with it as it is to organ-
ize our communities. Organizing
and lobbying are actually part of
the same political process. If
you have a well-organized housing
group in your community you have
the best medium for influencing
the legislative process; why not
use it? Conversely, if you are
going to try to influence a leg-
islative body you cannot neglect
organizing because grass roots
pressure is the only way to hold
elected officials
Community people usually hesitate
to get involved in lobbying be-
cause they think you need spec!al
qualifications to do it. The fact
is that anyone can lobby. You do
need to know how the legislative
body you plan to lobby functions,
but once you've learned the ropes,
it's largely a matter of (1) know-
ing what you're talking about and
(2) sticking with it. If what
you're talking about is something
you are dealing with all the time
in your neighborhood (in our case,
housing and tenant rights) the
first part comes naturally. Stick-
ing with it is harder because the
legislative process is a slow one
and it's easy to become discouraged.
Two years ago tenant and housing
activists from Albany, New York
City and Westchester Counties
founded the New York State Ten-
ants Coalition. The main activity
of the Coalition has been to lobby
the New York State Legislature for
laws which improve housing and
strengthen tenant rights and
The State Legislature(cont'd)
against laws which are harmful.
There were two overriding consid-
erations behind the formation of
the State Tenants Coalition.
First: the founders recognized
that unity of tenant and housing
groups is essential to muster the
political support necessary to
move a bill through the State
Legislature. From the viewpoint
of a New York City group, for
example, even if it were possible
to convince every New York City
legislator to support our program,
we would still need the votes of
legislators from other parts of
the state to have a majority in
the State Senate and the Aseembly.
For this reason, issues are formu-
lated on a statewide basis and
legislation drafted by the Coali-
tion is statewide in application.
And as new groups from Utica,
Syracuse, Schnectady, Poughkeep-
sie, and Binghamton have joined
N.Y.S.T.C. and people from differ-
ent parts of the state have grown
used to working with each other,
statewide unity among tenants has
become the solid basis for dealing
wit h the New York State legisla-
ture.
Second: the founders recognized
the need for a serious, skillful,
on-going lobby effort. Mobiliz-
ing bus loads of tenants to Albany
once a year, while important, was
not enough; rather, Coalition
lobbyists' (all voluf.teers, of
course) would have to be in Albany
constantly during the legislative
session. "Lobbying on issues"
would not do; tenants must lobby
for specific pieces of legisla-
tion. Logically these should be
bills designed and drafted by
the ' Coalition itself, or in close
cooperation between Coalition
lobbyists and key pro-tenant
legislators; in any case the Co-
alition would have a pivotal say
in what goes irito bills, which
legislators sponsor them, and
what changes, if any, can be made
The State Legislature(cont'd)
in them. This intensive approach
to lobbying was something complete-
ly new which many legislators have
found difficult to accept; they
don't like people looking over
their shoulders and reporting back
to their constituents. Because of
its constant presence and the grow-
ing expertise of its lobbyists, the
Coalition has established itself in
Albany as a force which must be
dealt with, and which can accomp-
lish its goals.
Three major pieces of legislation
were enacted by both
hous'es and then signed by the
Governor) as a result of the
Coalition's efforts during the
1974 legislative session: The
Langley Law, named after former
Senator Walter Langley of Albany,
which provides for the election
of public housing tenants to local
housing authorities; the Preserva-
tion of Sound Housing Act, which
restricts a landlord's right to
evict rent controlled tenants for
purposes of demolition and luxury
construction; and the Cooperative/
Condominium Fair Practice Act,
which has brought to a halt the un-
warranted conversion by landlords
of rental housing to cooperatives
and condominiums, while not
affecting low-income cooperative
All of these bills
were drafted by the New York State
Tenants Coalition.
An even more significant Coalition-
drafted bill was enacted during the
1975 session: the "warranty of
habitability law." This law,for
the first time, makes it a con-
dition of the tenant's obligation
to pay rent that the main-
tain the apartment in habitable
condition.
' Just as important as enacting good
legislation is the effort to de-
feat bad Ie gis lation.' During the
1975 session, the Coalition beat
back repeated efforts of local
housing authorities to repeal
or water down the Langley Law,
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The State Legislature(cont'd)
and mobilized enough legislators
to torpedo Mayor Beame's rent bill
which would have done away with
meaningful rent control and placed
all apartments in New York City
under the weak rent stabilization
system.
A strong statewide rent control
law will be the Coalition's major
goal during the 1976 legislative .
session. We are drafting a new
rent control bill which incorpor-
ates the best features of the
crazy-quilt mixture of existing
laws, plus new ideas, into one
unified system.
The Coalition will also be lobby-
ing for funding of neighborhood .
housing groups, and to stabilize
Mitchell-Lama rents. Plans are
now being made for weekly trips
to Albany and coordinated grass
roots pressure on legislators in
their home districts.
Membership in the New York State
Tenants Coalition is open to
housing and tenant organizations;
dues are $25.00 per year. Groups
or individuals who wish informa-
who are interested in
participating in the 1976 lobby
should get in touch with Kathy
Sanders at the Association, 674-
7610.
(Michael McKee is an organizer for
the Brooklyn Tenants Union and
chairman of the New York State
Tenants Coalition. As a member
of the N.Y.S.T.C. lobbying team,
he will be in Albany every week
during the 1976 legislative ses-
sion, which has already begun and
is expected to continue until
April or May.)
OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD
by the Executive Director
Among the many tasks of the Assoc-
iation's Executive Director are a
few that, because they do not in-
volve contact with community hous-
ing groups, probably pass unnotic-
ed by the majority of our members.
Nevertheless, these are important
to the Association and, we think,
to the ultimate growth and success
of the community housing movement.
Three of these areas of activity
are:
- Talking to the media. As the
Association and its work are be-
coming better and more widely
known, we are frequently called
by newspaper reporters and other
media types. Hardly a housing is-
sue that becomes "newsworthy"
arises without someone wanting to
know what the Association's posi-
tion is. In the past few weeks,
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we were asked about such matters
as Manhattan Plaza, the city's
Community Development Plan,
Zuccotti's promotion to Deputy
Mayor, Vic Marrero's appointment
as Chairman of the City Planning
Commission, the Sweat Equity Job
Training Projects, cuts in the
city budget, and a number of others.
Frequently, our views find their
way into print and sometimes we
are quoted and identified. This
has happened recently in the Nation-
al Housing Reporter (a prestigious
and expensive bi-weekly report
with a nationwide the
New York the Daily News, and
the Post, as well as more local
journals like the Villager and the
Chelsea-Clinton News. More than
once the news stories are followed
up by editorials which support our
positions. Thus we become a factor
in influencing public opinion as
well as in letting countless thous-
ands of our fellow residents know
that they are not isolated and
alone in their struggles for decent
housing and viable communities.
Off the Top of My Head(cont'd)
- Talking to students and others
about the housing movement. Our
younger citizens are indeed our
hope for a better future. We con-
sider it not only a duty, but a
privilege to talk to students,
either on an individual basis, or
in groups, and io exchange views
and ideas. Hardly a day passes
without an inquiry or request from
a student or a teacher. We have
talked with classes from Pratt
Institute, Columbia, Harvard and
NYU and have been visited by stu-
dents and teachers from allover
the city and from as far away as
Montreal, Williams College, Yale,
and Coe College, Iowa.
We also receive invitations from a
wide range of organizations to
give talks and to participate in
panel discussions and seminars.
So we have talked to meetings .
sponsored by the National Associa-
tion of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials, the League of Women
Voters, the National Conference on
Neighborhood Preservation, the
National Conference on Public
Service Employment, the New York
State Tenants Coalition, the
Westchester Housing Action Council,
to mention only a few. While most
of these meetings are in New York
City, we have gone as far afield
as Washington, D.C.; Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and wnite Plains,
New York. Here again, we use
these opportunities to enlist in-
terest 'and support for our pro-
grams and policies and to answer
the views of our critics and op-
ponents.
- A third area that occupies our
time is in meetings with city,
state and federal government of-
ficials. It is obviously import-
ant to get across to both elected
and appointed officers and members
of their staffs what we are doing
and what government ought to be
doing to provide better housing
and neighborhoods for the poorer
residents of the' city. We have
met on many dozens of occassions,
mostly individually but sometimes
Off the Top of My Head(cont'd)
in small groups, with city council
members, state legislators, members
of congress, members of the City
Planning Commission, the Board of
Estimate, and others.
The results of these activites are
not always apparent, either immed-
iately or in the short run. But
they do get word of our existence
and of the community-based housing
movement to an circle
of the press, young people, aca-
demics, citizen activists, bureau-
crats and politicians. Over time,
this can only help and strengthen
our efforts and broaden the base
of support for better housing and
communities for all of the people,
everywhere.
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The Fight Against Demolition;
Victory for Community Housing Groups
The Community Housing Movement is
beginning to shake up that somno-
lent bureaucracy known as HDA. Our
latest break-through is in the
city's demolition program. For
years, the Buildings Department
and the Office of Community Devel-
opment have combined to tear down
thousands of perfectly sound, re-
habilitatable houses and thereby
hasten the destruction of our
neighborhoods.
Recently, the city proposed an ac-
celeration of this outrageous pro-
gram by giving it additional fi-
nancial support from the Community
Development Program - under which
$102 million of federal funds are
coming into the city this year.
For many neighborhood residents
and groups this was the last straw.
An opportunity to resist this mis-
use of scarce community development
was seen when the city
issued a so-called "environmental
review statement" (required under
federal law) which stated that the
demolition program (1) was in ac-
cordance with a proper over-all
policy of good community develop-
ment, "(2) had no significant impact
on the environment, and (!) was
"non-controversial."
Responding promptly and vigorously
to the city's patently false find-
ings, the ' Association, along with
Pratt Institute Center for Community
and Environmental Development, the
Coalition to Save the Lower East
Side and other organizations and
individuals submitted written com-
ments which took sharp issue with
the city's position and insisted
that a full-scaie Environmental
Impact Study be undertaken before
any federal oommunity development
funds be used to demolish buildings.
This tactic by the communities put
the city in a difficult position;
since it had already spent all of
its available capital budget funds,
the eity could not let any more con-
tracts for demolition until it got
The Fight Against Demolition(cont'd)
the federal monies; but if it had
to proceed to make a complete
Environmental Review, many months
would pass before its report
could be ready; finally, if the
report, when issued, still sup-
ported a large-scale demolition
policy, could then be
brought which might delay the
program for additional months, if
not years.
So the city found itself obliged
to deal with us. Barry Zelikson,
Executive Director of HDA's of-
fice of Community Development,
called a meeting in early Decem-
ber of the organizations which had
filed objections. At this and sub-
sequent meetings an interim policy
was negotiated, designed to re-
structure and reform the whole
demolition and sealing program.
The main points of the agreement
are:
1. The city will combine funding
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for demolition and sealing into a
single, unified program. This
will be the case with both capi-
tal budget as well as community
development funds.
2. A joint city-community group
task force will be established to
study and design criteria and pro-
cedures for ;dentifying buildings
to be ' sealed rather than demolish-
ed. The task force membership
will consist of representatives
from HDA, Department of Buildings,
Corporation Counsel and the Bureau
of the Budget, as well as from
community groups from each of the
major neighborhoods in which large
numbers of abandoned, vacant and
unsealed buildings are located.
3. Pending the development and
agreement on a new program, HDA
will accept recomm.endations from
community groups of buildings
which' should not be demolished.
4. The objecting parties to the
city's environmental statement
are reserving their rights to
oppose the city's demolition pro-
The Fight Against Demolition(cont'd)
gram if an acceptable long-range
program is not forthcoming by
the task force.
Meanwhile, to insure that more
sound buildings which the commun-
ities want to see saved and even-
tually rehabilitated are not de-
HDA has begun to send to
the Association lists of all
newly-designated unsafe buildings,
newly-issued precepts and court
orders for demolition. The'
Association is circulating these
lists, as they are issued, to in-
terested organizations in each
Borough and these organizations
are asked to notify the Associa-
tion of any buildings they do not
want demolished. The Association
follows up with HDA to insure that
demolition does not take place.
If you want your organization to
receive lists of buildings in your
Borough which are being scheduled
for demolition or if you desire
further information about demoli-
tion and sealing, write or tele-
phone the of Neighbor-
Housing Developers, Inc., 29
East 22nd Street, New York, Y.
10010 (674-7610), attention Kathy
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City Planning Commission;
Board of Estimate
Hear Testimony From
Housing Groups
Packing the Board of Estimate
Chamber, Wednesday, December 10,
200 housing and community acti-
vists came to City Hall to tell
the .members of the City Planning
Commission exactly what they
thought about the city's propos-
ed amendment to the Community
Development Act-Year I Program,
that will bring 102 million dol-
lars into New York City this year.
The most dramatic presentation
was made by a Lower East Side Co-
alition which, as part of their
official testimony, presented
beautifully decorated and berib-
boned bricks from demolished Low-
er East , Side buildings. After
some initial hesitation, the Com- .
missioners began to enjoy the
whole thing. This display of
Christmas spirit did not move
them enough to take on Santa's
role, however. They preferred,
instead, to liken themselves to
Solomon, forced to "cut up the
baby." Since most of those pre-
sent came representing real
babies and adults suffering real
hardships because of deplorable
housing conditions, the audience
could not be sympathetic to the
Commission's dilemma ..
Using funds designated for com-
munity development to replenish
HDA's corpulent staff budget and
throwing boortdoggles to private
developers for parking lots and
shopping centers, is not a re-
sponsible action on the part of
the Commission. Further, they
insure the continuity of this
sham in their proposed "Citizen
Participation Plan."
There was also much to applaud.
That was the effort of so many
people to prepare testimony and
wait for hours to give it - some-
times to empty chairs. Member
groups of the Association and all
those organizations participating
City Planning Commission (cont'd)
in the Pratt Conference Coalition
made their positions quite clear
to the members of the Commission.
And the Commissioners must have
been listening. On December 31,
they issued their report, which
recommends . a number of changes in
the Proposed Amendment that had
been urged by the Association and
local neighborhood housing groups.
Among these are: increased funding
for and expansion of the scope of
repairs by the city's Emergency
Repair Program; combining demoli-
tion and sealing of unsafe build-
ings into a single unified pro-
gram with enhanced community
group participation in the selec- .
tion of buildings for sealing and
in the sealing and maintenance
process; decreasing by $2 million'
the allocation of C.D.funds for
street repairs; restoring to Pro-
ject Area Committees (PAC Groups)
full funding for personal services
costs; review of HDA's operations
of city-owned buildings in Urban
Renewal and NDP areas and consid-
eration of transfer of m a n a g e m e ~ t
from the justly criticized Depart-
ment of Relocation to community '
management groups.
While far from total victory, our
combined efforts did move the City
Planning Commission to take notice
of our demands and to agree with
some of them.
Final action on the Proposed
Amendment to the C.D. Plan is ex-
pected momentarily by the Board
of Estimate, which held the
second p'ublic hearing on January
13. Unfortunately, the hearing
had a much smaller turnout, al-
though community housing groups
produced a fair share of speakers.
All of us must continue our ef-
' forts, by appearing and speaking
at the public hearings and, if
possible, by submitting written
statements.
The Association will assist any
housing or tenant group to pre-
City Planning Commission (Cont'd)
pare its testimony and will tell
you the dates, times and places
of the hearings and how to get
on the list of speakers.
Space does not permit us to quote
from the lengthy testimony which
was . presented to the December and
January hearings. We would like,
however, to salute the people and
organizations who spent last Dec-
ember 10th together working for
better homes in which all New
Yorkers can live. They are:
Oiivia Simmons,Crown Heights Bd.
of Community Affairs
Lionel L. Daniels, Crown Heights
Bd. of Community Affairs
Chineda Carter, Bushwick Community
No. 4
Rev. Charles Vanderbeek, Restora-
tion Council of Bushwick
Father Robert Pawson, Restoratiori
Council of Bushwick
Michael Nobles, Crown Heights Man-
agement Maintenance Corp.
Mildred H. Meyer, Crown Heights
Bd. of Community Affairs
Rosalie DiLillo, Restoration
Council of Bushwick
Hazel Weeks, Flatbush Committee
for Youth
Ennes Francis, Harlem/East Harlem
MCPC
Father Timothy Collins, Bronx Com-
munity Board No. 5
Leslie Carter, Central Harlem
Eileen G. Lee, Operation Open
City
George Mazin, Bronx Park South
Roberto Nazario, Adopt-a-Building
Lisa Kaplan, Coalition for Human
Housing
Ron Shiffman, Pratt Center Coali-
tion
Kay Crampton, Pueblo Nuevo
Bro. Christopher Vardy, Pueblo
Nuevo
Luis Benza, Congressman Badillo's
Office
Michael Weiss, Flatbush Develop-
ment Corp.
Nester Cortijo, Pueblo Nuevo
Bibmo Rivas, Coalition for Human
Housing
Marty Markowitz, Flathush Ten-
ants Council
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City Planning Commission (Cont'd)
Ruth Garcia, Adopt-a-Building
Stan Kaminsky, Bronx Community
Bd. No. 8
Jacob Goldstein, Crown Heights
Board No. 8
John Derszewski, Brooklyn Commun-
ity Board No. 1
Kay Crampton, for Nancy LeBlanc,
MFY Legal Services
Lawrence C. Burr, Bronx Community
Board No. 3
Alica Henkin, Senator Carol Bel-
lamy's Office
Fred Welsh, Flatbush Development
Corp.
Francis Goldin, Cooper Square URA
Heriberto Cruz, Sunset Park Re-
development Corp.
Lawrence H. McGaughey, Housing
Attorney
Edward Rogowsky, Flatbush Devel-
opment Corp.
Robert Kagen, Manhattan Community
Bd. No . . 7
Councilperson Miriam Friedlander,
Lower East Side
William Baldwin, Mbrningside Re-
newal Council
Jose Rodriquez, Manhattan Valley
Development Corp.
Sandra Thomas, Strykers Bay
Leah Manhattan Valley
Development Corp.
Valerio Orselli, Cooper Square
Kurt Schneider, Manhattan Valley
Development Corp.
Councilperson Luis A. Olmedo,
Bushwick
Horace Carter, Harlem Community
Bd. No. 10
Councilperson Abe Gerges, Bush-
wick
Daniel Meunier, Housing Conser-
vation Coordinators
James Harris, Williamsburg'
Michael Leiman, Prospect Lefferts
Gardens Neighborhood Assn.
Judy Flynn, Association of Neigh-
borhood Housing Developers
Robert Schur, Association of
Neighborhood Housing Developers
Rev. Will J. Smith, Mid-Bronx
Desperados
Cathy Herman, Pratt Center and St.
Nicholas Housing Corp.
Roget Cutty, B.R.A.S.H.
Mrs. Dempson, East Harlem Commun-
ity Board No. 11
.,
,
City Planning Commission (Cont'd)
Rev. Kenneth McDonald, Corona/East
Elmhurst Development Corp.
James Mitchell, Bronx Branch, Op-
eration Open City
Alice Fritsche, Clinton
Pauline Anderson, Clinton
Brian Sullivan, Pratt Center Co-
alition
John B. Signoriello, Staten Island
Joe Walsh, Clinton
Freddie Brown, East Harlem
Arthur Rubin, Crown Heights '
Father/Councilperson Louis Gigante,
South Bronx, East Harlem SEBCO
Tamara Reid, Clinton Housing Forum
Daniel J. Henry, for Senator
Leichter
Valerie Jorrins, American Jewish
Committee
Dan Gutman, Coalition for Human
Housing
Bob Brown, Ocean Hill Brownsville
Tenants Association
Gloria Milliken, Housing Conserva-
tion Coordinators
Richard Marans, Housing Conserva-
tion Coordinators
(If your organization would like
copiep of the proposed Amendment
to CD 1, the City Planning Com-
mission's Report, the proposed
plan .for Citizen Participation,
the Proposed Second Yar Community
Development Plan, or copies of
testimony - call the Association
at 674-7610)
FEBRUARY 7th: Rally to Support
COOP CITY Rent Strike. Bus
information available from
Metropolitan Council on Housing
725-4800
FEBRUARY lOth: the Board of Esti-
mate will hold a public hearing
on the Proposed Second Year
Community Development Plan
(beginning at 10:30 am). To get
on the speakers' list, call the
Association (674-7610) immediately.
FEBRUARY 19th: Robert Schur
will address the Metropolitan
Chapter, National Association ~
of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials-(Met-NAHRO) on the
New York City Housing Assist-
ance Program, at Pace Univers-
ity, Schaeberle Hall, lOth Fl.
41 Park Row, beginning at 2:00pm
Admission 1s free.
MARCH 2nd: the Tri-State Region-
al Conference will hold an all-
day series of meetings and work-
shops on a number of current
issues affecting the New York
metropolitan area including ,
housing, environmental quality,
land use, energy, transportation,
and the econ'omy at the Hilton'
Hotel, 53rd St and Seventh Ave.,
New York, beginning at 8:30 am.
Admission is free-except for a
luncheon for $12.00. Register
in advance with the Regional
Planning Association, 235 East
45th Street, New York 10017 or
at the conference before 9:00am.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLAN-
NING is holding a serIes of lec-
tures on housing. Admission to
all lectures is free and the ad-
dress is Columbia University,
International Affairs Auditorium,
l18th Street and Amsterdam Avenue,
New York. The following are the
dates and the guest speakers for
the first three lectures:
FEBRUARY 10TH (5:30 p.m.): Beyond
The Rent Strike: The Aftermath
of Pruitt-Igoe. Thomas CostellO,
Executive Director of the Saint
Louis Housing Authority q,nd Anita
Miller of the Ford Foundation.
FEBRUARY 24TH (5:30 p.m.): The
Future for New Housing: A New-
York Perspective. Edward Logue,
former Executive Director of the
New York State Urban Development
Corporation.
MARCH 23RD (5:30 p.m.): Subsidized
Housing Since 1934: Its Impact on
the People it Housed. Elizabeth
Wood, former Executive Director of
the Chicago Housing Authority and
Special Assistant Commissioner
for JManagement of the Public Hous-
ing Administration.
SPECIAL NOTE: To make up for our
staff having been obliged, due to
pressure of the city-imposed dead-
lines, to work on Martin Luther
King Day, the Association office
will be closed on Friday, February
13th, thus allowing the staff a
well-earned five-day vacation,
including Lincoln's Birthday
(February 12th) . and Washington "s'
Birthday (February 16th).
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