Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America...
...when the cafe was again about to be built, Mayor Lindsay came into office. He at once appointed Walter Hoving's son Thomas as the new Parks Commissioner, and flatly turned down the cafe. Mr. Thomas Hoving then suggested to me that I give my money to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. I finally agreed to give two-thirds of it to Bedford-Stuyvesant if one-third could be used for a smaller version of the cafe at the proposed site. For this offer, Mr. Hoving accused me of holding out "a carrot on a stick" to Bedford...
Lindsay's third attack on the status quo focused on improving the level of city services in ghetto areas. The Mayor's creative, publicity-minded Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were...
Also, community leaders in poverty areas are fast learning the rules of the funding game. And the number one rule is that violence brings results. Well-known ghettos such as Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant and the Lower East Side continue to get the lion's share of the anti-poverty pie. As leaders in competing ghettos see it, they get money because they have an "in," because they are well organized, and because they act ferocious...
...Cremaillere, Bedford Village, N.Y. Excellent French food. The wine cellar fills four large rooms. Expensive...