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...elected mayor in 1953 and re-elected in 1957, both times under the sponsorship of the Democratic organization bosses he is now attacking. His first term was plodding; his second has been studded with proliferating scandals: inadequate or nonexistent school maintenance, graft in the real estate bureau, profiteering in slum-clearance projects, conflict of interest in the city council, extortion in the police department, bribe taking in the controller's office and by inspectors of departments that supervise buildings, markets, water supply, gas and electricity. Trying to hold onto the support of reform Democrats, led by former Governor Herbert...
Louis Lefkowitz, Republican, who doggedly fought his way up from an East Side Manhattan slum to Fordham Law School, a city judgeship under Fiorello La Guardia, and a successful private practice, has served 4½ years as a hard-working state attorney general. Elated by the rift in Democratic ranks, New York City's feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts...
...Clown & Sandwich Boards. Two of the books deal with life in Williamsburg, a colony of poor ultra-Orthodox Jews in a bulge of Brooklyn just opposite Manhattan's Lower East Side. Summer in Williamsburg is a multistranded account of life in a slum street, replete with greed, brutality and love. It focuses on Philip Hayman, an aspiring young writer who is ready for his last year in college and ready, too, for romantic agony. The book is built on the familiar cross-section pattern, and to some degree succumbs to the risks of that method: the parts...
Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family be happy in its new surroundings? The answer, as published last week in a report by Britain's Ministry of Housing: Not very...
...badly educated, Newburgh's ex-migrants find it hard to get year-round jobs in a town with little industry. The stubborn discrimination of the North has forced them to congregate in four waterfront districts that police bluntly call "the trouble wards." The area is now a classic slum, going from bad to worse; during the past three years, the assessed value of property on Newburgh's downtown streets has dropped...