Correspondence
teract ABC's "harsh" treatment of the poor, well-intentioned Soviets. As everyone knows, taking over the U.S. is the farthest thing from their minds. If you don't believe Turner, ask Marshal...
...Sanchez told me all this over the phone, but omits it from her letter...
...However, from your article, it seems he is not the type of man to be bothered by revelations of sexual peccadillos—at least if his partner were female...
...The truth is the apartment in question was occupied by a couple with two children...
...Now note the category "preserved from abandonment," which constitutes almost 60 percent of the units to be provided for low-income families...
...Nothing of significance...
...The fact is the opposite: the 7A program is intended to restore basic services without forcing the city to take over ownership...
...Tucker even manages to find a dark side to Mayor Edward I. Koch's ten-year, $4.2 billion housing plan to preserve, construct, and rehabilitate 252,000 housing units...
...Recently, a group of battles...
...It provides us with the most convincing capability to limit damage through offensive and defensive counterforce...
...Tucker implied, insinuate myself into the affairs of 2086 Nostrand Avenue, nor did I take the building away from Mrs...
...For, as St...
...However, before we sacrifice CORRESPONDENCE our hopes of a coherent strategic policy (continued from page 9) on the altar of Poseidon, we should operators with banishment to the consider whether Mahan's dichotomy "commercial oblivion" of the upper holds true in an era where wars are not reaches of channel positioning (chan- merely fought in the land and the sea, nels 2-13 are more heavily viewed), this but also in the air, in space, and in the did not come to pass...
...Ricks to court...
...City council members appoint all the members of the Community Planning Boards, which work hand in hand with the state-funded "neighborhood preservation companies," which in turn—as Sanchez's letter clearly indicates—feel it is their personal and professional responsibility to supervise private enterprise in their neighborhoods...
...If they ask in derision, as did Stalin, "how many divisions does the Pope have...
...Tucker suggests that many 7A Administrators are not properly trained, but then he criticizes the City for trying to provide training...
...Given this fact, a maritime emphasis in U.S...
...But having accepted those two points, what would Mr...
...Toronto, Ontario M6B 2V9...
...Tucker's baseless and irresponsible attacks on me...
...By the end of 1917 Serbia, The conversation was triggered by Rumania, and Russia had been re-Turner's antics and mouth-frothing in- moved from the anti-German alliance...
...Ambrose said, "Where Peter is, there is the Church...
...I did not trick Mrs...
...I preserved 2086 Nostrand Avenue as a habitable dwelling for six families, repaired numerous hazardous conditions, and made it attractive enough to a new owner so that tax foreclosure was prevented...
...Besides intermediate and advanced audio-cassette courses—most developed for the U.S...
...Perhaps he had recently conferred with Messrs...
...Her major dispute with her tenants was not over her failure to provide services, but over her attempts to collect rents...
...This category simply refers to the number of apartments that the city anticipates taking over from private landlords, mostly through the 7A program...
...Although it may be only a "paranoid fantasy," to me this top-to-bottom political supervision seems eerily reminiscent of the thorough-going formal and informal controls "the party" exercises over all private enterprises in socialist and quasi-socialist countries...
...dignation in connection with ABC's France, Belgium, and Italy had lost the "Amerika...
...Several tenants came to my office to complain of the lack of heat, hot water, and other services and the presence of drug dealers at all hours...
...He suggests that funds from the program are being used to fund upper income housing, such as Battery Park City, when the exact opposite is the case...
...He describes 7A as a "fast track whereby [the City] uses neighborhood preservation companies as shock troops in an effort to get more and more real estate into city hands...
...And they never will...
...The median family income in New York City is only $23,000...
...Tucker's "victim' Ricks—owned the building, the tenants suffered without heat or hot water...
...Correspondence, TAS, March 1987) scheduled to receive sore throat and tonsillitis examinations were surprised, if not dismayed, to learn that their doctor, a la Jesse Jackson, does not see fit to wash his hands after urinating...
...Having described the City's housing shortage, Mr...
...A good 7A Administrator, like a good doctor, restores a sick building to health...
...Donatelli erroneously implicates as Seattle Tacoma market...
...In World War I, the Prussian friends and I were discussing the rid- General Staff continued its tradition of dle of what had converted an apparent- operational excellence by leading the ly patriotic and conservative entre- German Army from victory to victory preneur into an "agent of deception...
...Paul A. Crotty, Commissioner Department of Housing Preservation and Development New York, New York I have just come across your February issue in which William Tucker in his essay, "Homeless People, Peopleless Homes," used a specific small building in Brooklyn and named the executive director of a local, non-profit housing organization to make his point that New York City's housing policies have had disastrous consequences...
...What the Military Reorganization Act will do, however, is give those uniformed decision makers who must think in terms of using all available resources the opportunity to acquire and express a broader view of strategy...
...But they don't have the Pope...
...I was appointed the 7A Administrator in April, 1985...
...Ricks or anyone else...
...Orthodox Catholicism is back with new life and vigor...
...Send for free, illustrated 40-page brochure H- 80 Vantage Press, 516 W. 34 St., New York, N.Y...
...Ricks would have the wherewithal to make repairs...
...name, address, phone, details...
...and (2) people in New York are desperate for housing...
...I am glad Commissioner Crotty mentioned Mayor Koch's ten-year, $4.2 billion housing plan because it gives me the chance to make a point I didn't have room for in the story...
...It is not true as Mr...
...Nevertheless, whether we like it or not, we are primarily a sea power...
...Here is the breakdown on the housing that the ten-year plan is supposed to produce, according to a press release from the Mayor's office: A. Low-Income (family income up to $15,000)-126,000 units 1. Reconstruction of vacant units in city-owned buildings-16,000 2. Units preserved from abandonment-74,000 3. Rehabilitation of occupied units in city-owned buildings-36,000 B. Moderate income (family income between $15,000-25,000)-93,000 units 1. Reconstruction of vacant units in city-owned buildings-10,000 2. Newly constructed units under home-ownership program-7,000 3. Support for upgrading of private units-76,000 C. Middle-income housing (family income $25,000-40,000)-33,000 units 1. Support for new units in homeownership program-33,000 Notice that the government financing of new units—rather than rehabilitation of already-occupied units—breaks down like this: A. Low-income-16,000 B. Moderate-income-17,000 C. Middle-income-33,000 Thus, half the new housing units to be built under the plan will be going to families with incomes over $25,000...
...Central to Mr...
...In seeking to condemn the City's rent control system, which is imperfectat best, Mr...
...The Jesse Factor I wonder if trusting patients of William Hazlett, M.D...
...Find: writers, editors, students, think tanks, parents, home-schoolers, churches, activists, pro-lifers, mags, newspapers/letters...
...That doesn't seem to bother Mr...
...All my actions were taken with full knowledge and consultation with HPD lawyers and the mortgagees' lawyer...
...limit 15 wds...
...Send entry (incl...
...Gudmundsson like to contest this point, may I suggest that he rent a car and take a drive around the periphery of the country...
...My involvement with 2086 Nostrand Avenue, the Brooklyn building mentioned in the article, began in 1983, many months before it was purchased by Katherine Ricks, the 62-year-old nurse also mentioned...
...He will have ample opportunity to go swimming...
...The only plan the city has for the poor is to continue driving small landlords out of business...
...New authors welcomed...
...We believe the opposite: the solution to the housing crisis lies with the private sector...
...When she tried to climb in a window, Sanchez accused her oftrying to "break into" her own building...
...The National Catholic Register says we're "gutsy," and Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law considers us to be "excellent...
...Edgar Williams Carrboro, North Carolina Why Go Navy...
...It was a dangerous fire and crime hazard, which impeded our commercial and housingrevitalization efforts in the Brooklyn College area...
...The point of my article was that housing in New York is completely politicized, from the fixing of most rents right down through the battles over control of individual buildings...
...If you don't believe Turner, ask Marshal Ogarkov...
...City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to appoint an administrator, but the City's lawyers were at that time leary of the tenants...
...The tenants asked me to manage the building and signed a petition to that effect...
...Ricks, her lawyer, and myself...
...we want to invigorate it...
...The goal is for court-appointed administrators to stabilize a building before conditions deteriorate to such an extent that the building becomes unlivable...
...Optional rates: $1/wd...
...without enormous suffering...
...Time finds us "conservative" (true enough, when it comes to doctrine, sexual morality, and ecclesial authority), Newsweek says we're "cheeky" (probably more true than we realize), and The New York Times thinks our editorial policy is "curious" (probably very true, at least from the Times's perspective...
...Ricks appeared as the new owner...
...Now that we have a centralized JCS, the question is: to what extent will this centralized bureaucracy, with an overly influential Army and Air Force, be sensitive to the needs and requirements of our vital maritime and amphibiousforces come "strategy coordination" time (whatever that means...
...She began to make improvements (as I acknowledged to Mr...
...Ricks returned a few days later, she found the locks changed...
...I believe that all groups benefited from my work as 7A Administrator, including the tenants, Mrs...
...As such, it is a step in the right direction...
...We support the teaching authority of the Church across the boards — whether the issue is the divinity of Christ, papal infallibility, abortion, nuclear weapons, birth control, or social justice — and we do so without getting bitter or rigid or antiecumenical about it...
...When Mrs...
...Unfortunately, after receiving the $1700, Mrs...
...Gudmundsson's suggestion that implied in my argument is the desire to undermine our Army...
...Thus $4,250 in fines represented only 17 days of not providing heat over the two years Mrs...
...Merchants on the block were negotiating to buy the building when Mrs...
...Freeing the Chairman of the JCS and his staff from the need to act as salesmen for their services of origin will not guarantee that we too will not emphasize one form of warfare to the detriment of others...
...Tucker's arguments against rent control are familiar, and not without merit (although it is a bit hard to feel What do LIBERAL Catholics have that ORTHODOX Catholics don't...
...Call 1-800-243-1234 for ti ac FREE 32-p...
...Then they called the housing inspectors...
...There are times, however, when tenant organizing and rent strikes are necessary...
...Ricks sold the building in July, 1986 to a new owner, and soon after I was relieved of my responsibilities by the court and HPD...
...global strategy should be the cornerstone of our defense policy...
...I spoke with him frankly and at length several times on the telephone, and in exchange I was libeled...
...Ricks told me she made continuous efforts to provide heat and hot water during both winters...
...In short, they concentrated their efforts on one aspect of the conflict while ignoring others...
...She originally took a first floor apartment, but later turned it over to a superintendent (the "couple") with the understanding that she would retain the use of one room...
...Please allow 2 to 8 weeks for delivery of first issue) SPECIAL DISCOUNT RATES FOR FIRST-TIME SUBSCRIBERS NAME (Please print or type) STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE NEW OXFORD REVIEW Room 57 1069 Kains Ave...
...I believe the prognosis is bad...
...His description of one case, involving a building formerly owned by Katherine Ricks and managed under the 7A program by Toby Sanchez, resembles a Grade B movie with a villain and a victim...
...Ricks bought the building, she was living with her sister...
...Admiral Mahan was, after all, a nineteenth-century man who based his opinions on the lessons of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century naval campaigns...
...Turner put on a number of capacity for offensive operations...
...Ricks was that Ricks bought a building in her neighborhood without asking permission...
...She never came back to do so, until a month later...
...This is where the NEW OXFORD REVIEW comes in, for we are challenging the pre-eminence of dissenting, liberal Catholicism in the arena of high-quality journalism...
...Where is she supposed to go if her landlord is given the unlimited right to increase her rent at will...
...Before Mrs...
...The factthat Mrs...
...I accounted monthly for every penny of rent collected...
...Of course, the liberal Catholics clearly have the sympathy of most of the secular "prestige media...
...Tucker fears that the City will not be able to sustain the burden of debt from the Mayor's plan, but offers no evidence...
...Ricks, the heroine of the article, was sued by HPD and eventually fined $4250...
...Ricks bought the building in 1984 and conditions went from bad to worse...
...I. am the executive director about whom Mr...
...catalog, or write: BUDICIFORUM...
...Ricks stopped doing anything in the building and the tenants spent the winter of 1984-85 (the first under her ownership) again without heat or hot water...
...hours of propaganda designed to coun- These victories in one sphere, however, 52 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1987 were not enough to stave off eventual defeat...
...She abandoned her dog for 30 days and so it was turned over to the ASPCA...
...I managed 2086 Nostrand Avenue for 15 months (with the knowledge and approval of my board of directors) as part of my job description to improve the neighborhood and make it attractive to potential customers and investors...
...Maybe certain "uniformed decision makers" now have greater latitude...
...Sanchez...
...The problems in the building began long before she bought it and the appointment of a 7A Administrator involved two legal proceedings, two judges, three city lawyers, numerous court appearances by the tenants, Mrs...
...It might be argued that the lack of heat was the tenants' fault, but New York City doesn't care and ruthlessly fines landlords $250 a day for not providing heat, no matter what the cause...
...The number of violations increased greatly fromwhen she purchased the property to the time when Ms...
...The Prussian General Staff KCPQ-TV/Channel 13 was a one service staff that brought vicTacoma, Washington tory as long as Prussia could win its wars in the course of a land campaign The article on Ted Turner was quite il- that culminated in one or two decisive luminating...
...My congratulations to the person who writes your headlines...
...Find conservative people and needed resources fast...
...Tucker failed to tell his readers that Mrs...
...A monthly journal of ideas, the NEW OXFORD REVIEW has already made its presence felt among the shapers of public opinion...
...That is a paranoid fantasy with no basis in reality...
...Ricks, the new owner, the mortgagees, the neighborhood, and the City...
...Ricks did have belongings there and I wrote her lawyer asking her to remove them...
...Toby Sanchez Brooklyn, New York William Ricker replies: I don't think I differ much with either Toby Sanchez or Commissioner Crotty in their account of the incidents involving Katherine Ricks...
...His indictment of everything the City does is based on dangerous misperceptions and a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and value of our programs...
...Tucker made several false statements and insulting innuendoes...
...Indeed, it is precisely this kind of pettiness which has characterized and, at the same time, distorted the entire debate over military reform...
...Room K543 96 Broad St Guilford...
...Do you (individual or group) want to: have at your fingertips, hundreds of the right names, addresses, phone numbers, info...
...on land...
...We cover the full range of issues of concern to Catholics, and while we do not shrink from denouncing error and correcting the dissenting theologians, we prefer to announce the Truth — and to do so with joy, verve, charity, and "heart...
...His description of such a small program as playing "such a large part in New York's housing and [typifying] so much of the City government's housing philosophy" shows what happens when propaganda intrudes upon the facts...
...When Toby Sanchez took over the building, she immediately kicked out Mrs...
...And now that the tide is turning inside the Church, this is no time to sit on your hands...
...I asked the N.Y...
...Forty years of a distorted market cannot be swept away tomorrow The Conservative Directory How to Get Yours Free...
...Tucker claims, and did not have to suffer from the lack of basic services...
...10001 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1987 55...
...Ricks illegally or underhandedly...
...It is Mr...
...We went to several meetings with the HPD lawyers and this time they agreed to ask the court to appoint an outside administrator to replace the owner temporarily...
...I collected $21,000 in rent from tenants who had not paid rent in years and put all of it back into the building for heat, repairs, new equipment, etc...
...The Conservative Directory, the essential listing of all things conservative, can be yours free...
...they only signal their own myopia...
...We offer introductory and advanced materials in most of the world's languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish, and many others...
...So c'mon, why not lend a hand to the renaissance of the living Catholic tradition, and subscribe today...
...Ricks did not live in the building, as Mr...
...Perhaps Mia Farrow should pay more than $1,870 for her Central Park West apartment, but what about the elderly widow who uses most of her social security check to pay her below-market, controlled rent...
...Thus, I think my evaluation of New York City's housing policies still stands...
...operators backed down in the face of An object lesson in the danger of united opposition from all local televi- failing to coordinate strategy at the sion broadcasters and KCPQ-TV, highest level can be found in the history Channel 13, remains on the channel 13 of the same Prussian General Staff that position in cable homes throughout the Mr...
...Many merchants, landlords, and residents of that block and my board of directors had also complained about the building...
...Tucker carries his arguments to absurd extremes, unfairly attacking all of the City's many housing efforts...
...That fact translates into less relative information for our politically accountable civilian leaders...
...Housing Solutions William locker's article on the housing shortage in New York City ("Homeless People, Peopleless Homes," TAS, February 1987) is heavy on propaganda but light on facts, much like the news reporting favored by the Soviet soldiers that he describes marching in Red Square...
...Tucker who played tricks...
...Ricks and told the superintendent that he could have the whole apartment...
...Local cable electromagnetic spectrum...
...Bruce I. Gudmundsson Medford, Massachusetts Thomas Donatelli replies: I am dismayed by Mr...
...And they also have their own influential and prestigious periodicals...
...add $1.75 postage and handling...
...Write: Pearcey and Pearcey 47 Claver Ave...
...Nor will it guarantee that fiascos like those that attended the liberation of Grenada and those that prevented the rescue of the Teheran hostages will not occur again...
...Far more important though, I think, is the sense that emerges from Sanchez's letter about the role of neighborhood preservation groups and 7A Administrators in New York housing...
...With Audio-Forum's intermediate and advanced materials, it's easy to maintain and sharpen your foreign language skills...
...As a result, the City took Ms...
...Gudmundsson...
...It was obvious, both from my interview with Sanchez and from her letter, that her main objection to Mrs...
...Defeat came because the German nation was unable to deal with the economic, psychological, and, yes, the naval superiority of its enemies...
...This idea may have had validity for its author...
...We all agreed that the most likely explanation for Turner's apparent quick conversion was that, during a trip to Cuba, he had been the victim of a classic entrapment, i.e., videotaped in a sexually compromising situation and blackmailed...
...We do not want to stifle the private market...
...As far as the heating violations are concerned, Mrs...
...Nouwen, Paul C. Vitz, John C. Cort, Russell Kirk, Christopher Derrick, and Francis Canavan, S.J...
...CT 06437 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1987 including her dog, which she has never seen again...
...Tucker's greatest venom is reserved for the 7A program, which currently includes only 265 of the City's approximately 119,000 buildings...
...Robert L. Cook Gilbert, ArizonaAUTHORS WANTED BY NEW YORK PUBLISHER Leading subsidy book publisher seeks manuscripts of all types: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scholarly and juvenile works, etc...
...It is also the most reliable and cost-effective equalizer for our theater defense deficiencies...
...Rather than thwarting the private ownership of rental property, the 7A program assists it...
...Poindexter and North...
...Advertise your (home-)business...
...Tucker in our several telephone conversations), and I helped her by persuading the mother of the drug dealers to sign a court stipulation to move out and by obtaining from another tenant $1700 in back rent from Public Assistance so that Mrs...
...She was fined $4,250, and control of the building was given to Ms...
...Ricks owned the building...
...Ricks was able to get two new $400-a-month tenants to move into the building in the midst of all this probably indicates two things: (1) Mrs...
...The vast majority of dollars included in the Mayor's ten-year plan, for example, will be spent on incentives for private development, with very little spent directly by the City...
...Where we differ is in the matter of interpretation...
...beyond 15 wds...
...Should Mr...
...Any entry may be excluded for any reason...
...Sanchez took over the building...
...Ricks was offering reasonable services...
...In addition the three mortgagees were notified in writing of the dangerous conditions in the building and then of the hearing regarding appointment of a 7A Administrator...
...The tenants had long lived in one of those informal truces—so common in New York—where tenants will not demand too much in services if landlords do not try to collect any rent...
...She just showed up one day and said she was the new owner," is the way Sanchez described it over the phone...
...The lawyer with whom I discussed the article advised me that I have grounds for a legal case against the writer and The American Spectator...
...Tucker's overriding point seems to be that the City is conspiring to "socialize" the housing market and take over all private property in the tradition of Stalin...
...State Dept.—we offer foreign language mystery dramas, dialogs recorded in Paris, games, music, and many other helpful materials...
...Ricks repaired the boiler several times but her tenants continually sabotaged her efforts, breaking through locked doors several times and flooding the basement with oil...
...I would be hard pressed to think of a better title for Thomas Donatelli's recent cannonade against the Military Reorganization Act than "Go Navy" (TAS, February 1987)—except, perhaps, "Go Navy, Beat Army...
...The lion's share of benefits goes to people with "moderate" and "middle" incomes...
...Additionally, Russia was at a distinct disadvantage in Manchuria and Korea against the Japanese during 1904-5...
...a model for the reformed JCS organ-Chris Kelly ization...
...Tucker stated falsely, "The day after her building was put into 7A administration, she [Mrs...
...I prefer to resolve the matter at this time by requesting that you print my response to Mr...
...Rent controls clearly do provide a negative incentive for housing construction and may not always benefit the most needy...
...Offer ends 12 June 1987...
...The apartment she claims to have been living in was in fact occupied by another couple when Ms...
...Then, reserve your listing and receive your directory...
...This is why Mrs...
...And if you want to learn a new language, we have beginning courses for adults and for children...
...He said the building was hopeless, and he could do nothing about it...
...It is a fact that, given the present state of transport technology, a U.S.-led maritime alliance could project power far more economically to the Soviet Far East front than could the USSR itself—a fact...
...Oh, they have many seminaries, priests, religious orders, and colleges and universities...
...So it looks as if the explanation is not a sudden change of any kind, but a revelation of what has been there all along—a shallow, power-hungry opportunist who is willing to be used by the Soviets in the belief that he is using them...
...The 7A program, run not by the City but by the courts, is used only in the most extreme cases where a landlord has walked away from a building...
...During the winter of 1985, when Mr...
...Tucker stated that Junction/College Development Corporation spent its time "organizing tenants and starting rent strikes," as a matter of unvarying policy...
...All of Ricks's belongings disappeared Want to brush up on a foreign language...
...Ricks was unable to reclaim her belongings...
...The revenues from Battery Park City are being used to help fund the Mayor's program for low, moderate, and middle income housing, not the other way around...
...In New York, of course, there is only one major party—the Democrats—but when it comes to housing politics, bipartisan politics loses all significance and the whole system converges into one big machine...
...Promote your group/organization/publication/cause...
...with check (rates: $10 U.S., payable to J. Richard Pearcey...
...Maritime power projection by Britain and France was far superior to the land power projection by Imperial Russia in the Crimea...
...My first step was to contact the person listed on the tax rolls as the tax payer, who turned out to be a lawyer representing the several private mortgagees...
...The point of this long recital is that I did not, as Mr...
...Tucker and other anti-rent control zealots suggest we do...
...Ricks] came back to find that Toby Sanchez had already taken over her apartment...
...Sanchez was appointed the 7A...
...Donatelli's argument is the idea that a nation cannot be both a "sea power" and a "land power" at the same time...
...Those who write for us include the best orthodox Catholicism has to offer: L. Brent Bozell, Juli Loesch, Thomas Molnar, Henri J.M...
...There are no data, no facts, and no analyses produced by anyone that suggest that the plan is not sound fiscal policy...
...I would never assert that America is, or should be, solely reliant on sea power...
...Berkeley, CA 94706 PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1987 53 sympathy for Carly Simon's landlord for getting only $2,208 a month for her apartment...
Vol. 20 • May 1987 • No. 5
