Letters to the Editor

92nd Street Y Contributes

To the Editor:

Our members appreciate all the efforts Met Council has extended on behalf of the tenants of New York City. We are also aware that you face the additional costs of a lawsuit affecting rent-controlled tenants. Therefore, at the request of the Social Action Committee of the Sixty + Program of the 92nd Street Y, we are sending you a contribution of $100 to be used as you see fit to benefit the renters of New York.

Thank you.
David Young, President
Executive Board
Senior Adult Club
Manhattan

Corrections

In last month’s issue of Tenant/Inquilino, part of the English version of our editorial was accidentally cut. The affected paragraphs should have read:

“Though the Mayor endorsed renewing the rent-control laws last spring, his support for them was tepid, almost token. He did not criticize the eventual weakening of the laws, and he did not bring an iota of his normal pugnaciousness to the issue. While strong organizing by public-housing tenants has prevented him from doing much damage there, who knows what kind of schemes the privatization fiends of the Manhattan Institute are brewing for his second term.

“Yet Ruth Messinger failed to capitalize on this. Though she criticized Giuliani during the rent-control debate, she was relatively quiet for most of it; even Councilmember Sal Albanese’s pathetically underfinanced campaign was more visible. Her campaign focused on education, on reinventing government, on Giuliani’s “meanness,” but she said little about housing. It was conspicuously absent from the list of the city’s unsolved problems she cited in her concession speech.”

In the November 1997 issue, the photograph of the cat on page 7 was taken by Robin Black.