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 IPNTA
Newsletters
January 2003
What Have We Done Lately?
Here's what IPNTA has done in the past few months, since our last
big tenants meeting in October:
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To pay for lawyers, consultants, and ongoing negotiations with politicians
and others, we had $140,080 in our bank account as of December 20.
- We retained the law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue
& Joseph to prepare various documents and otherproofs relating to
the management of IPN.
- We retained another law firm, Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein
LLP which has extensive experience in housing development and finance
issues.
- We collected many tenant complaints which we will present to HPD
and all other important parties to block, or at least slow down, the
sale of IPN to real estate multi-millionaire Laurence Gluck. Gluck has
publicly stated his intention to remove IPN from the Mitchell-Lama program,
and charge market rents. You know what that means.
- Our president, Neil Fabricant, has testified at numerous public hearings
at City Hall and in Albany about our fight to save our homes.
- We participated in a March on City Hall in December—during
a snow blizzard—along with others who support affordable housing,
to demand saving IPN's tenants' homes from the so-called “free
market” rents.
- We mailed 5,000 postcards to City Council Speaker Gifford Miller,
and NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, to save our homes.
- We met with various politicians to press our cause.
- We received heavy media coverage of our plight and goals in the New
York Times and on CBS TV.
- We contracted Julie Miles, who has been coordinating efforts at public
relations, demonstrations, communications and so much more. She’s
done a terrific job.
- We attended monthly meetings with community groups like the WTCRC
(World Trade Center Residents Coalition) and received full support from
the members who run the tenant associations of other downtown neighborhoods:
Wall Street, Southbridge Towers, Battery Park City; South Street Seaport;
etc.
- We held weekly Executive Board meetings to brainstorm, update and
build on strategy.
- And we had monthly floor captain meetings to keep floor captains in
the loop so they can answer your questions.
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