Date: Time Period: 1975.0; 2013-05-24; Interview recorded: May 24 2013Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital audio recorder digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.Dimension:
Total running time: 0:01:12
Creator: Paul Kerzner interviewed by Grace Sullivan and Chia-Yin Leslie TuIdentifier: aql:26255 kerzner-paul-clip4
Description: Ridgewood resident, Paul Kerzner, along with Rosemary Gunning started the Greater Restoration Corporation in April 1975. The city took over 1714 Palmetto Street, a vacant building, for back taxes. The city did not have a mechanism to transfer a vacant property to a non-profit housing group. New York City had over 70,000 vacant units of housing at the time. This motivated Paul to figure out how to make the transfer of a vacant property to a local group. He asked Rosemary Gunning, a New York State assembly member, to sponsor legislation that would give Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) the authorization to enter a negotiated sale for $100 a unit. Rosemary Gunning got the legislation passed and convinced the city to do the negotiation. Ridgewood was to be a test case.
Creator : Paul Kerzner interviewed by Grace Sullivan and Chia-Yin Leslie Tu
Date : Time Period: 1975.0; 2013-05-24; Interview recorded: May 24 2013
Summary/Description : Ridgewood resident, Paul Kerzner, along with Rosemary Gunning started the Greater Restoration Corporation in April 1975. The city took over 1714 Palmetto Street, a vacant building, for back taxes. The city did not have a mechanism to transfer a vacant property to a non-profit housing group. New York City had over 70,000 vacant units of housing at the time. This motivated Paul to figure out how to make the transfer of a vacant property to a local group. He asked Rosemary Gunning, a New York State assembly member, to sponsor legislation that would give Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) the authorization to enter a negotiated sale for $100 a unit. Rosemary Gunning got the legislation passed and convinced the city to do the negotiation. Ridgewood was to be a test case.
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