Description: Statement by the Steering Committee of the Housing Crimes Trial, summoning defendents such as the government of the City
History
Don’t Move Out – Do Move In Committee
Description: Call by the Met Council on Housing squatter support committee (the Don’t Move Out – Do Move In Committee)
Hallway Meeting
Description: Building residents meeting in the hallway of a squat at 90th St and Columbus Ave. Date: February 1970 Creator:
Tyrone Holland
Description: Memorial protest for Tyrone Holland, a 6 year old who fell to his death down 15 stories of an
Operation Move-In
Description: Poster requesting support for families facing evicition from buildings squatted as part of Operation Move-In. Date: circa 1970 Creator:
March on Washington
Description: Met Council on Housing delegation to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which filled two railway
Rally at City Hall
Description: A demonstration by the Committee to Save Our City’s Homes at City Hall for rent control and repairs. This
Metcalf-Baker
Description: The Metcalf-Baker Fair Housing Law was passed in 1961 and barred discrimination in private housing In New York State.
Stuyvesant Town
Description: Stuyvesant Town was built as a result of a public-private development partnership orchestrated by city planner Robert Moses. The
Penn Station South
Description: Jane Wood, a founder of Met Council on Housing, led the ultimately unsuccessful fight against the Penn Station South
Decent Housing
Description: Publication by Leif Johnson and the Met Council Community Improvement Fund, Inc. detailing a proposal for ending New York
Lower Manhattan Expressway
Description: The Lower Manhattan Expressway was a Robert Moses project, orginally proposed in the 1940s, which would have leveled parts
Save Our City’s Homes
Description: English and Spanish language posters for a demonstration at City Hall to demand an end to the housing shortage
Moses Must Go!
Description: An open letter to Mayor Robert Wagner from the Met Council on Housing demands a new approach to urban
Program for Urban Renewal
Description: First page of Met Council on Housing’s position statement on urban renewal. The organization brought together neighborhood groups from
Relocation
Description: Publication of the Urban Renewal Administration, an amendment of the Title I Housing Act of 1949. The Title I
Jane Wood
Description: Dedication of Jane Wood’s Way (West 19th Street). Date: Undated Creator: Unknown Original Format: Black and White photograph, 3.5 x 4.5
Jane Wood
Description: Jane Wood, center, at a Chelsea Coalition on Housing rally. Date: Undated Creator: Unknown Original Format: Color photograph, 3.5 x 5
Jane Wood
Description: Jane Wood, second from right, at a Chelsea Coalition on Housing rally in support of a rent striking building. Date:
Bess Stevenson
Description: Bess Stevenson, right, with an unidentified speaker at a Met Council on Housing Assembly meeting. Date: Nov 17, 1986 Creator: Becket
Bess Stevenson
Description: Bess Stevenson, second from left, with the Harlem branch of Met Council on Housing at a rally in Washington D.C.
Cooper Square Committee
Description: Cooper Square Committee newsletter discussing the developments regarding the Alternative Plan for Cooper Square. Date: Jun 1963 Creator: Cooper Square
Jane Benedict
Description: Spanish and English
Jane Benedict
Description: Jane Benedict at a sit-in at the office of New York State Senator Earl Brydges to protest vacancy decontrol.
Jane Benedict
Description: Jane Benedict discusses the arrangements for the day in a bus en route to Alabny, NY for Met Council