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One million people Uve in "old, decayed, overcrowded ghettos" in New York City and they "must move to new sanitary low rental high-rise apartments on 20% coverage of fand within the City not in the .suburbs." This was the challenge of Robert Moses, former New York City Commissioner, at the 20th Anniversary Dinner of the United Housing Foundation held at the Statler Hilton Hotel Saturday, March 27th.
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Simeon Golar, Chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, called for new public housing developments and "perhaps some of the old ones" to be "spun off as cooperative communities." He declared that "we ought to build the ~i?d of hous_es and co_mmumties the. United Housing Fo~nda_twn has built and maintamed these last 20 yea:·s, where low_ ~nd 1:1oder~te inc?m~, familles live side by side. The obstacles to new housing for families of moderate income are not to be found in "galloping inflatien," according to Harold Ostroff, Executive Vice President of the United Housing Foundation and President of Riverbay Corporation, but in "a much deeper rooted problem that exists in our society." He pointed to national policies that are based on fear and mistrust which result in bilHons for weapons and for warfare to the neglect of housing, community development, education, health etc. One thousand people joined in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of th e ume it d Hosuing Foundation. The f h · · Y came rom ousmg cooperti ff·¡· t d ith th e a ives a 1 ia e wi umit ed H ousmg · F oun da ti10n, d f an rom many of the largest trade union in the City of New York; they included ,rovernment leaders and m:ny business firmR interested in the developnient of housing cooperatives. It was noted that the cooperatives affilfated with th u ·t d e m e
Seven hus loads of cooperators from Co-op City (more than 3~0 people) will converge on Albany Tuesday, April 6th, to petition for passage of pending housing legislation. They will assemble at Chancellor's HaU where they will meet with and speak to members of the State Senate and Assembly. The cooperators, mostly senior citizens, win board the huses here at 7 :Mí A.M. Five buses will depart from Dreiser Loop near the Sing- tax abatement for senior assistant to the executive er Center, and two will de- citizens with annual incomes vice president of UHF, and part from Aldrich Street be- of $4,500 or less. If adopted Edward Aronov, executive tween Baychester A venue and funded, this measure mnager of Co-op City, will and Asch Loop. would mean a reduction of be among the cooperators in The buses will leave Al- $3 per room per month for Albany. bany at 2 P.M. and arrive eligible senior citizens. The back at Co-op City at 5 P.M. Senate version of the bill The_ cooperators are par- passed last week. The measticularly interested in cam- ure now faces a stiff battle paigníng for the legislation in the Assembly, so UHF ofproviding for 100 per cent ficials urge a large effort . on the part of all cooperaThe. Inter· CO mm u~ 1 t Y tors. committee of the Advisory ·1 d. I d . k Other measures the coop- eounci . ise ose this w~e erators are petitioning for that RI~erbay Corpora hon are interest reduction for has received request for New York Bus Service cooperative mortgages and a lease on the land bounded will expand its Monday extention of tax abatement by Asch Loop, Bartow A vethrough Friday express ser- for older cooperatives. nue, and Garage 4, for the vice to Manhattan starting United Housing Founda- purpose of erecting a post Monday. tion (UHF) is sponsoring office branch. The new schedule is exthe activities . in. Albany The proposed site is the panded to include new south- Tuesday, and invited Gov- original one shown on the bound buses at 6 :15, 8 :15, ernor Nelson Rockefeller, site plan given to all resí. and 8 :45 A.M. These dearea US · · . Represen t a t ives, dents. parture times are from representatives of the State . . · . f H . d The Committee agreed Dreiser Loop. Add six min- D 1v1s10n o ousmg an th t R' b a iver ay should o·o ute departure time from St a t e Sena t ors an d A ssemh ea d with . . . º Il , H a negotiations on Asch Loop. The additional bl ymen t o Chanee or s a 11 . . the lease so that the post buses mean that a south:,JHF also h~s h~d ~igns office will be available for bound bus will depart Coprmted and will distribute residents as soon as possible. op City every 15 minutes them to the cooperators who from 6 :15 to 9 A.M., on ~m ,be . in Albany :ruesday. ,Yeekdays. UHI< ;71shes to rymmd those The northbound schedule travelmg to . Alban~ that . will be expanded b include they must brmg then- own Recruitment for the Auxi7 :30 and 8 P.M. buses, from lunch, . ,vith liary Police has been extend23rd Street and Madison them. There will be no op- ed one weck. Volunteers are Ave. · foo · d or asked to por t um't y t o obt am to the SeManhattan Exdrinks in press Bus service starts toHarold øf 46,332 of Riverbay Corp., Al Smoke, total of 162,000 people.
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5 Buses Added To Express Line
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ROCK SLIDES-Children frolic on recently instaUed play equipment on Donizetti Rock. Among the favorite items are rope webs designed for climbing, and, of course the slides. Passersby have commented on the orderly manner in which the kids line up to take their tums, first climbing then swooshing down onto the artificial grass.
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Mr. Golar said that Mitchell-Lama housing is approved for construction today with rental schedules of $80 and $100 per room and that non. subsidized housing is being built with rentals of "well over $100 per room." The United Housing Foundation paid special tribute to the three past presidents of the United Housing Foundation, Abraham E. Kazan, the founder and first Presi, dent; Robert Szold, who worked with Mr. Kazan for housing cooperatives since the first one was planned 45 years ago; and Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and one of the incorporators and directors of Riverbay Corperation-Co-op City. Others who spoke at the Dinner were Charles J. Urstadt New Y k St· t r or a e Commissioner of Housing and Urban Development; Stanley Dreyer, president of the Cooperative League of the United States; Jacob Clayman, director of the fo. dustrial Union of the AFLCIO representing George (Continued on Page 8)
Bulletin As we went to press würd was received that the Movers Union, Local 814 of the Teamsters, went on strike. Those families immediately effected are the onet: scheduled to move into Buildings 23 and 24. It iR suggested that all who are due to move in the near futnre follow the news media or contact Local " 814, 242-2630 or the Coop City Administrative office, 671-2000.