Peter Marcuse papers, 1947-2017

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Series III: Housing Authority



Box 14 Folder 1 Pre-History, 1874, 1934, 1947

Clippings, a book excerpt, and a booklet titled "Nonprofit Housing Projects in the United States" by the United States Department of Labor



Box 14 Folder 2 National History: 1934-1945, 1931-1987

Collected essays, correspondence with Gail Radford, and clippings



Box 14 Folder 3 National History: 1945-1980, 1984-1985

Includes a collected draft written by Rachel G. Bratt with correspondence



Box 14 Folder 4 New York History: 1930's, 1984-1986

Includes a draft titled "Public Housing in the United States in the 1930's: The Case of New York City," copies of images related to NYCHA projects, and notes



Box 14 Folder 5-7 New York History: 1934-1945, 1934-1946, 1985

Includes clippings, letters, memos, excerpts, and other reference materials



Box 14 Folder 8 New York History: 1946-1980, 1946-1980, undated

Includes clippings, letters, memos, excerpts, and other reference materials



Box 14 Folder 9 Administration, 1953-1985

Includes profiles of NYCHA administrators, clippings, collected papers, and summary notes



Box 14 Folder 10 Admission, 1935-1993

Includes clippings, memos, releases, application forms, charts, collected essays, students' papers, notes, and drafts regarding tenant selection



Box 15 Folder 1 Amalgamated Houses, 1962, 1982, undated

Notice of referendum, collected paper, and copies of booklets



Box 15 Folder 2-3 Annual Reports, 1934-1987

Various editions of NYCHA annual reports



Box 15 Folder 4-5 Architecture, 1972-2004

Includes a draft titled "Does Architecture Matter?" and collected papers and reports, students' papers, clippings, and excerpts



Box 15 Folder 6 Archives, 1984-1985, 1991

Includes correspondence, inventory lists, and processing reports regarding the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Archives' acquisition of NYCHA's archive



Box 15 Folder 7 Arson, 1983-1996, undated

Clippings and excerpts



Box 15 Folder 8 Bibliographies, 1953, 1976, 1984, 1993

Bibliographies on "Public Housing" by Peter Marcuse with notes; "The History of Low-Income Housing in New Yok City, 1900-1984: Bibliography" by Moon Wha Lee; "Reading List on Housing in the United States" issued by the office of the Administrator; and "Defensible Space and Security: A Partially Annotated Bibliography" by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development



Box 15 Folder 9 Chronology, 1965, 1969, undated

Includes "Housing in New York City: A Chronology," "Highlights of the History of New York City," and "NYCHA Chronology"



Box 15 Folder 10 City Program, 1934-1986

Drafts, a NYCHA report titled "Housing without Cash Subsidy," NYCHA's "Survey of 23 Low Rental Housing Projects in New York City," notes, memos, letters, and other reference materials regarding local (city) government provision on housing



Box 15 Folder 11-13 Collected Papers & Reports: 1921-1960, 1921-1957

Carol Aronovici, "Housing and the Housing Problem" andAmerica Can't Have Housing"; Edith Elmer Wood,Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States;One-Third of a Nation;What the Housing Act Can Do for Your City; CHPC, "Harlem Housing"; City Planning Commission, "Adoption of a City-wide Map Showing Sections Containing Areas for Clearance, Replanning and Low Rent Housing"; R. G. Tugwell, "Implementing the General Interest"; Federal Housing Administration,A Handbook on Urban Redevelopment for Cities in the United States; Herman T. Stitchman, "The Emergency in Housing" and "Housing Policy in the Expanding Region: A Return to Neighborhood Living"; WNBC, "Housing 1947"; Anthony F. C. Wallace, "Housing and Social Structure"; New York Chamber of Commerce, "Public Housing in New York City"; "Paul Tishman's View on Middle-Income Housing"; Elizabeth Wood, "The Small Hard Core" and "Public Housing and Mrs. McGee"; Robert F. Wagner, "Workable Program for Urban Renewal of the City of New York"



Box 16 Folder 1-3 Collected Papers & Reports: 1961-1980, 1962-1979, undated

City Planning Commission, "1962-3 Urban Renewal Study Program"; Citizens Union and CHPC, "A Program for Community District"; Community Renewal Program, "New York City's Renewal Strategy"; Elizabeth Wood, "Social Planning: A Primer for Urbanists"; Institute of Public Administration, "Developing New York City's Human Resources: Volume II"; Pratt Planning Papers Volume 4 No.2 (March 1966); David A. Crane, "Planning and Design in New York"; William L. Rafsky, "Publicly Assisted Housing"; Institute of Public Administration, "'Let There Be Commitment': A housing, Planning and Development Program for New York City"; Walter Goodman, "The Battle of Forest Hills--Who's Ahead?"; The Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, "Your Rent & The Brooke Amendment" and "Leases and Grievance procedures for Public Housing"; Sherry Ann Suttles, "Reactions of Public Housing Tenants to the Design of Their Projects"; New York Urban Coalition's Housing Rehabilitation Task Force, "Report and Proposal"; Department of City Planning, "Proposed Fifth Year Community Development Program: Housing Assistance Plan"; a draft by L. H. Spence



Box 16 Folder 4-6 Collected Papers & Reports: 1981-1996, 1982-1996, undated

Department of City Planning, "City Assistance for Small Manufactures"; Congressional Budget Office, "Federal Subsidies for Public Housing: Issues and Options"; "At Home in the New City: Housing in New York 1910-1983"; Cooper Square Committee, "Celebrating 25 Years of Cooper Square 1959-1984"; Norman I. Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein, "The Politics of Urban Development: New York City Since 1945"; Douglas S. Massey and Adam Bickford, "The Effect of Public Housing on Black Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas"; "Means Historical Cost Indexes 1988"; "1988 Dodge Square Foot Cost Data"; Doug Turetsky, "Neighborhoods Rising"; Sally-Hernandez-Pinero, "The Homeless and Public Housing in New York City"; Douglas S. Massey and Shawn M. Kanaiaupuni, "Public Housing and the Concentration of Poverty"; Nadia Venturini, "Nascita di un Complesso di Edilizia Popolare A New York: East River Houses"; David P. Varady, "Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction Among Public Housing Residents: Implications for the New Public Housing Program"; The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, "Public Housing and Substance Abuse: Access to Treatment"



Box 16 Folder 7 Construction Management, 1986

Memos from NYCHA officials



Box 16 Folder 8-9 Contracts, 1984-1988

Contracts between Peter Marcuse, the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Archives, and NYCHA with correspondence and notes



Box 16 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1984-1993



Box 16 Folder 11 Crime, 1994-1996

Includes collected papers and clippings



Box 16 Folder 12 Determinants - Economic, 1935-1936, 1987-1988

Collected papers, excerpts, clippings, and notes



Box 16 Folder 13 Determinants - Political, undated

Notes and drafts



Box 16 Folder 14 Determinants - Social Control, 1986

Correspondence with and a draft by Christian Topalov with notes



Box 16 Folder 15 Drugs, 1989

Memo, report, and clipping regarding drug traffic in public housing



Box 16 Folder 16 Evaluation, 1968-1969, 1984-1987

Includes copies of a paper titled "The Public Housing Program: Private Pacification or Public Purpose? A Cost-Benefit Analysis," notes, memos, correspondence, and collected papers



Box 16 Folder 17 Financial, 1988

Excerpt from "New York City's Housing Crisis: Public Spending and Its Results, 1984-1987" by Citizens Budget Commission, September 1988



Box 17 Folder 1 First Houses, 1934-1986

Includes letters, memos, releases, key plans, clippings, and summary notes



Box 17 Folder 2 Future Trends, 1939-1997

Includes reference materials on Marine Drive Apartments, Buffalo, and collected papers, memos, releases, and clippings on public housing ownership



Box 17 Folder 3 Grant, 1954-1973

Releases, lists, tables, and a fact sheet regarding General Grant Houses



Box 17 Folder 4 Graphs, ca. 1985

Includes graphs on number of units, ethnic composition, application, and other matters in public housing between 1935 and 1985



Box 17 Folder 5 Harlem River Houses, 1934-1988

Letters, reports, memos, key plans, collected papers, summary notes, and a draft



Box 17 Folder 6 Home Ownership, 1984-1992

Collected papers, clippings, and memos



Box 17 Folder 7 Hope VI, 1999-2002

Correspondence regarding Community Renaissance Fellows Program Conference discussing "Learning from Hope VI" at Yale University, March 2000, with a bibliography, a collected paper, clippings, and notes



Box 17 Folder 8 HUD, 1994-1996, undated

Memos, reports, and clippings regarding the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) programs



Box 17 Folder 9 Human Interest, 1964, 1983-1988

Booklets by NYCHA, clippings, governmental reports, and Neighborhood journals



Box 17 Folder 10 Journal Article, 1985

Drafts of "The Beginnings of Public Housing in New York" written for the Journal of Urban History



Box 17 Folder 11 Lectures, 1989-1992

Teaching outlines for "PhD Seminar" and for "Seminar on the City"



Box 17 Folder 12 Legal, 1951-1986

Excerpts, collected papers, and a booklet



Box 17 Folder 13 Management, 1986-1993

Collected papers and clippings



Box 17 Folder 14 Manhattantown, 1951

Copy ofManhattantown: Slum Clearance Plan Under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949



Box 17 Folder 15-19 Manuscript, 1986-1989

Drafts of a book manuscript on the history of public housing in New York



Box 14 Folder 11 Maps, 1982-1988

General maps of New York and specific maps regarding public housing, including maps published by the NYCHA and the Department of City Planning, City of New York



Box 18 Folder 1 Mayor's Committee for Better Housing, 1955

Various reports written by the Mayor's Committee for Better Housing of the City of New York



Box 18 Folder 2 Middle Income, 1935-1986

Notes, collected papers, clippings, memos, and letters



Box 18 Folder 3 Miscellaneous, 1967-1998

Clippings, pamphlets, bulletins, etc. that were not contained within specific original folders



Box 18 Folder 4 Moses, 1986-1989

Drafts titled "Robert Moses and Public Housing: Contradiction In, Contradiction Out," index of archival materials, correspondence, memos, transcripts, and releases related to Robert Moses' involvement as the Chairman of the City Committee on Slum Clearance



Box 18 Folder 5 National Tenants Organization, 1989-1991

Includes a copy of a reprint of "The Rise of Tenant Organizations" published by The Nation, July 19, 1971, and materials from or on the National Tenants Organization



Box 18 Folder 6 Notes, undated

Various notes that were not contained within specific original folders



Box 18 Folder 7 Other Programs, 1987-2000

Notes, clippings, a booklet on programs by NYCHA



Box 18 Folder 8 Photos, 1942-1984

Photographs (17) of various NYCHA projects and a set of photographs (6) regarding "New York City Housing Authority: Fifty Years of Photographic History, 1934-84" with press release



Box 18 Folder 9 Problem Estates, 1994-1997

Includes reference materials regarding housing privatization primarily in Estonia



Box 18 Folder 10 Project Data, 1977-1991

Various editions of NYCHA Project Data



Box 18 Folder 11-12 Projects, 1937-2015

Notes, clippings, letters, memos, maps, and collected papers on various NYCHA projects including Jacob Riis Houses, Red Hook, Vladeck Houses, Lillian Wald Houses, Edwin Markham Houses, Forest Hills, Chelsea Houses, Bushwick Houses, and Queensbridge Houses



Box 18 Folder 13 Protest, 1954-1976

Clippings, excerpts, memos, newsletters, and other reference materials



Box 18 Folder 14 Public Housing, 1976-2000, 2015

Includes drafts titled "Interpreting 'Public Housing' History" and "Public Housing locational decisions," correspondence regarding journal and book contributions, and notes for a discussion on the evolution of NYCHA in 1999



Box 18 Folder 15 Publishing, 1988-1991

Includes correspondence with publishers--including Columbia University Press, Temple Press, and Oxford University Press--about a book on the history of public housing in New York



Box 18 Folder 16 Race, 1954-1993

Clippings, collected papers, and notes



Box 18 Folder 17 Rand, 1968-1971

Various reports by the Rand Corporation



Box 18 Folder 18 Redevelopment, undated

Draft titled "The Development of Redevelopment: Class Struggle and the 'Housing Question'"



Box 18 Folder 19 Rehabilitation, undated

Contains notes



Box 18 Folder 20 Rent Levels, 1987

Correspondence and data tables regarding rent levels in NYCHA housing



Box 18 Folder 21 Reorganization, 1942-1960, undated

Notes, letters, memos, and clippings regarding the reorganization of the NYCHA



Box 19 Folder 1 Services, 1947-1966, 1991

Clippings and a collected paper written by Richard Funderburg on community services provided by NYCHA



Box 19 Folder 2 Siphon, 1982, 1988

Draft titled "Divide and Siphon: Housing Policy in New York City since the War," notes on the siphon effect in housing, and an edition of the Manhattan Report on Economic Policy, vol II. no. 6



Box 19 Folder 3 Site Selection, 1936-1989

Includes articles, letters, maps, collected papers, notes, and correspondence regarding site selection in NYCHA projects



Box 19 Folder 4 Slums, Undated, 1994

Drafts titled "Reforming the Space of the City" with a clipping



Box 14 Folder 12 State Public Housing, 1938-1986

Includes letters, reports, articles, clippings, and collected papers primarily on Mitchell-Lama Housing



Box 14 Folder 13 Statistics, 1946-1983

Tabulations showing racial distributions ("White," "Black," "Puerto Rican," and "Other") in NYCHA's housings



Box 19 Folder 5 Submission of Sites, [1962]

Four booklets ofSubmission of "Authority" Sites to the City Planning Commissionby the NYCHA



Box 19 Folder 6-7 Tenant Data, 1988, 1991

Tenant Data: Characteristics of Tenants as of January 1, 1988andTenant Data: Characteristics of Tenants as of January 1, 1991created by NYCHA Research and Policy Development



Box 19 Folder 8 Tenant Management, 1984-1987

Report titled "Tenant Participation and Tenant Management Projects at the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority: Preliminary Assessment and Observations co-written by Harry J. Wexler and Peter Marcuse, collected papers and reports, clippings, and correspondence



Box 19 Folder 9 Tenant Selection, 1976, 1984, undated

Audit report, manual, and text material regarding NYCHA tenant selection policies, procedures, and practices



Box 19 Folder 10 Tenants, 1972-2004

Includes a published paper titled "Housing Movements in the USA" (1999), correspondence, notes, clippings, a booklet, and collected papers on tenants organizations



Box 19 Folder 11 Veterans, 1946-1971, undated

Includes memos, letters, and clippings



Box 14 Folder 14 Vladeck Houses, 1938-1989

Letters, basic information, clippings, and tabulations



Box 19 Folder 12 Welfare, 1985

Correspondence with NYCHA administrator George Gross



Box 19 Folder 13 Williamsburg Houses, 1934-1937

Key plans, letters, a booklet published by Public Works Administration



Box 19 Folder 14 William Reid, 1958-1961

Drafts and transcripts of speeches, addresses, and talks by William Reid



Box 19 Folder 15 Women, 1988

Notes and a collected draft on women's managerial roles in NYCHA housings