Series I. Public Relations Files. Abraham D. Beame, 1961-2000s (bulk, 1969-1977)

Includes a copy of the report prepared by the Comptroller's Office School Construction Costs: A Study in Escalation.

Includes the Comptroller's Office report concerning the condition of the Tax Deficiency Account and the Tax Appropriation and General Fund Stabilization Reserve Fund ("Rainy Day Account") for 1971-72 and the report concerning the proposed Executive Capital Budget for 1971-72.

Includes the Comptroller's reports Investment Progress concerning the New York City Retirement Systems as of 30 June 1970 and the Special Survey of the Board of Education's Projected Operating Deficit, and the handbooks for New York City managerial employees describing their welfare fund benefits (1969, 1971).

Includes a copy of the booklet New York City Does Have a Future by Eli Ginzberg.

Includes the Comptroller's Office report Declining Attendance in New York City's School System.

Includes the Summer issue of the Kingsbrook Auxiliary Reporter with photographs from the 16 May 1971 Dinner-Dance at which Comptroller Beame was honored. Includes the Comptroller's Office interim and second interim reports on the Municipal Loan Program.

Includes to-do lists that range from August to December.

Includes the Comptroller's report concerning the 1972-73 draft capital budget and the capital program for the five succeeding fiscal years.

Includes the Comptroller's preliminary report concerning the Department of Social Services' Day Care Imprest (Revolving) Fund.

Includes the Comptroller's reports concerning the Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance's Emergency Services Repair Program, the 1972-74 Executive Capital Budget, the 1972-73 proposed expense budget, and The Case for Upgrading New York City's Credit Rating.

Includes the Comptroller's report Investment Progress concerning the New York City Retirement Systems as of 30 June 1971.

Includes the Comptroller's report on the Office of Neighborhood Government's Neighborhood Action Program.

Includes the Comptroller's report "The Forgotten Children": A Second Study of School Truancy.

Includes the Comptroller's report of the limited survey of the Parking Violations Bureau for compliance with the Marchi Bill (Scofflaw Law).

Includes the Comptroller's report concerning the 1973-74 draft capital budget and the capital program for the five succeeding fiscal years.

Includes the Comptroller's reports on the John Edward Bruce Day Care Center Number One and the Youth Board Research Institute of New York Inc.'s High School and Educational Incentive Program ("other than personal services" only).

Includes the Comptroller's report concerning the Youth Services Agency and City and State Funded Contracts with the Youth Board Institute of New York, Inc.

Includes the Comptroller's reports on New York City Off-Track Betting (OTB) Corporation and Investment Progress concerning the New York City Retirement Systems as of 30 June 1972.

Includes the Comptroller's Office report concerning the condition of the Tax Deficiency Account and the Tax Appropriation and General Fund Stabilization Reserve Fund ("Rainy Day Account") in the proposed 1973-74 expense budget. Also includes a report prepared for the Comptroller on the South Bronx Model Cities Camping Program's activities at Shaker Village Work Group Camp in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Includes drafts of the announcement, Walter's notes on discussions planning the announcement (March 8) and other public relations matters for the campaign in March, Jimmy Breslin's age-related criticism of Beame's candidacy and drafts of the response, campaign handbills and pamphlets, and other matters from the first weeks of Beame's candidacy. Includes a transcript of NBC's Meet the Press broadcast of October 17, 1965, which included mayoral candidates Beame, William F. Buckley, Jr. and John V. Lindsay.

Includes the October 1973 issue of the periodical The Young Democrat focusing on the upcoming election and the program for the New York Press Club's 25th Anniversary Byline Ball at the Hotel Roosevelt. Includes the Comptroller's report concerning the 1974-75 draft capital budget and the capital program for the five succeeding fiscal years.

Includes an invitation to the Beame pre-election rally on November 4 and two photographs of Beame and his wife, likely at the election night celebration. Includes copies of "Managing New York City's Pension Funds," an undated presentation to the Legislature's Select Committee on Pensions by Third Deputy Comptroller Melvin N. Lechner.

Includes the Comptroller's report Investment Progress concerning the New York City Retirement Systems as of 30 June 1973.

Includes pages 74-132 of a transcript of a Congressional hearing concerning bond ratings.

Includes correspondence and other documents related to Broza's efforts to garner public support for Beame's positions, primarily on the city's credit rating (1972) and the CUNY budget and the 35 cent transit fare (1973).

Includes letters from Lou Shainmark, former Managing Editor of the Chicago Herald American, with proposals for reducing New York youth street crime.

Includes press releases, clippings and other documents concerning inquiries into the YSA's expenses.

Includes two releases, 70-22 and 71-107.

Includes correspondence concerning a dispute over a job offer of a professorship.

Includes a compendium prepared by the campaign's Research Department, circa November 1973, and a version of Beame's mayoral inaugural address.

Includes a paper sent to HUD by the West Virginia Housing Development Fund. The paper was forwarded to Walter by one of its co-authors, with a letter proposing national growth policy as a possible campaign theme for Beame.

Includes Walter's summary of his daily hours worked from mid-1971 to the end of 1972.

Includes two portrait photographs, one of Beame and one of him with his wife; a parody letter from the Committee to Erect a Statue of John V. Lindsay; list of Comptroller's Office staff; draft of a letter from Beame to Robert Moses concerning Moses's proposal for Beame to be a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's committee on purchases and sales of art objects; clippings; and other items.

Includes a transcript of NBC's Meet the Press broadcast of October 17, 1965, which included mayoral candidates Beame, William F. Buckley, Jr. and John V. Lindsay; William F. Buckley Jr's announcement as mayoral candidate; Buckley's biography; and a New York Times Magazine article. Also an unrelated 1961 press release from Mayor Wagner's office.

Includes the booklet prepared by the Committee for Gracie Mansion, Inc. on the occasion of the presentation of the Reception Wing to the city.

Includes the text of then-former Comptroller Beame's remarks at the Citizens Union and New School for Social Research.

Includes correspondence and other documents concerning Comptroller candidate Beame's revenue proposals, especially for a joint state-city fiscal commission (1969, 1971); includes a letter from Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (1969). Also includes correspondence with Mayor John V. Lindsay concerning a proposed executive branch reorganization, particularly with regard to "superagencies" (January 1970); letter to President Richard Nixon supporting a tax incentive program for employee training (January 1970); and an outline of remarks for the Midtown Council (October 5, 1972).

Includes correspondence, analyses, statements, and other documents concerning Comptroller candidate Beame's various tax/revenue reform proposals, including those related to off-track betting (OTB), tax sharing, real estate tax exemptions, and others.

Includes three photographs of Beame's inauguration as Mayor, biographical notes from the 1970s, and some published articles about Beame.

Includes the alphabetical indexes (and some monthly chronological indexes) for Beame's remarks, statements, messages, articles, and the like during 1974. Press releases are not included in the indexes.

Includes program, invitation to inauguration and reception, standard portrait photograph of Beame, speech and drafts, and other documents.

Includes the booklet Giovanni da Verrazzano: The Discoveries of New York Bay by Lino S. Lipinsky, published on occasion of the inauguration of the Verrazano -Narrows Bridge on 21 November 1964.

Includes the Department of City Planning publication Little Italy Risorgimento: Proposals for the Restoration of an Historic Community, which was the subject of press release 468-74.

Includes the Mayor's Policy Committee draft report Housing in New York City (Nov. 4) and final report Housing Development and Rehabilitation in New York City (Nov. 13); the program for the 40th anniversary of New York City's public housing (Nov. 20); and a marketing brochure for the Port of New York-New Jersey Authority's new passenger ship terminal on the Hudson River at mid-Manhattan (Nov. 23)

Includes a photograph of Arthur Schomburg, marketing material and fact sheets in connection with the opening of Schomberg Plaza to its first residents (Dec. 17); an image and other documents related to the presentation of a portrait of former mayor William O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion (Dec. 20); and the Mayor's Year-End Report for 1974 (Dec. 31).

Includes clippings, remarks, and other documents found in other parts of the collection after processing of the Beame portion was done, and then added here.

Includes a summary of New York Times editorials concerning the impending fiscal crisis from 1974 to mid-1975, prepared about July 1975.

Includes clippings related to the fiscal crisis, some designated as favorable or unfavorable.

Includes the alphabetical indexes for Beame's remarks, statements, messages, articles, and the like during 1975. Press releases are not included in the indexes.

Includes the booklet checklist for the Ash Can School exhibition at City Hall in 1975.

Includes Beame's testimony before the Commerce, Consumer & Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations (June 23) and meeting minutes of the Comptroller's Technical Debt Management Committee from February 1974-March 1975, forwarded to Beame on 2 June 1975.

The clippings include the Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead."

Includes the alphabetical indexes for Beame's remarks, statements, messages, articles, and the like during 1976. Press releases are not included in the indexes.

Includes a Thomas Bartosiewicz primary election campaign pamphlet (state senator from the 18th District, Brooklyn).

Includes the booklet About American Express, a company history-oriented marketing document.

Includes the brochure checklist for the Community Environments Flag and Banner Exhibition

Includes the Bicentennial-themed program booklet for the 108th annual meeting of the Dental Society of the State of New York.

Includes a brochure relating the history of University Settlement (in connection with Beame's speech on the occasion of the Settlement's 90th anniversary).

Includes a selection of essays written by elementary and high school students on the subject "What I Want You to Know About New York City" for a New York Times contest; background materials from the Embassy of Spain concerning the visit of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia, including two photographs of the royal family; and annual report for 1975 of the New York City Commission for the United Nations and for the Consular Corps, in connection with a 16 June 1976 speech by Beame.

Includes various materials in connection with events which Beame attended and delivered remarks: Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir information booklet and other Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints background material, including a photograph of President Spencer Wooley Kimball; lyrics to the new song "You'll Never Be Poor in New York" written by Ira Gassman, and performed at Gracie Mansion by the composer Jule Styne; Operation Sail 1976, International Naval Review and "July 4th 1976 in Old New York" brochures; Municipal Art Society award booklets for 1975 and 1976; invitation card to the Bicentennial ceremonies with Queen Elizabeth II (July 9); welcoming glossy brochure from the Citizens Committee for the Democratic National Convention to the arriving delegates (July 11); and the official commemorative program of the American Freedom Train.

Includes the Department of City Planning report Schools for Communities: Expanding the Use of Our Schools (in connection with press release 295-76).

Includes a compendium of remarks in connection with proclamations granting honorary citizenships, 1975-1976; the report Recommendations for a Preliminary Community District Map from the Subcommittee on Coterminality of the Mayor's Charter Implementation Committee (Sept 20); a booklet issued by Lord & Taylor in connection with its 150th anniversary (Sept 22); and a photograph of Mr. Big Apple in connection with a Committee in the Public Interest autumn campaign (Sept 30).

Includes select Mayor Beame and Mrs. Beame speeches from October 1976; one audience, the Maritime Port Council of Greater New York & Vicinity includes both the 1976 and 1974 Beame speech.

Includes documents related to the dedication of the Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant, including the mayoral letter and list of contents placed in a box in the cornerstone to be opened in 2026 (Oct 21); recommendations of Michael I. Sovern concerning negotiations between New York and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) (Oct 21); brochures, including route map, for the first New York City Marathon (Oct 24); and seating list, program and other documents related to the New York Press Club's Byline Ball at which Beame was roasted (Oct 24).

Includes the report of the Special Counsel to New York City concerning its investigation of transactions in city securities. Also includes a memo of December 2, 1974, stating reasons for the frequency of New York's short term borrowings and higher total borrowings.

Includes a photograph of the New York Cultural Center (Gallery of Modern Art) and other buildings at Columbus Circle in connection with its purchase and donation to the city by Gulf & Western (Dec 8); documents, including an exterior photograph, related to the opening of the Museum of Holography at 11 Mercer Street (Dec 8); and the Department of Investigation's report of the management audit of the Department of Purchase (Dec 10).

Includes the original mayoral proclamation of Kazoo Day (March 18).

Includes an October 1961 brochure issued by the Municipal Art Society of New York, The City Hall of the City of New York.

Includes Beame's re-election campaign announcement and documents concerning story lines and responses to questions about the 1975 fiscal crisis in relation to the campaign. Includes documents related to the Americana '77 Street Fair, including street maps showing location and type of exhibits.

Includes the Preliminary Report on Flushing Airport prepared by Transportation Administrator Alexander J. Mautner (press release 247-77).

Includes the Official Statement for the issuance by New York City of $381,750,000 of General Obligation Serial Bonds (June 16).

Includes the Preliminary Findings: Blackout Commercial Damage Survey prepared by the Department of City Planning (press release 339-77).

Includes the transcript of the interview of mayoral candidate Edward I. Koch on the program "New York Report" on WOR-TV Channel 9 Public Affairs (July 25); and the New Yorker with Ken Auletta's article "More for Less" (August 1), the letter from the New Yorker informing Beame of the impending article, and Beame's rebuttal.

Includes the booklet Trees for New York City prepared by the Department of City Planning, with enclosed oversize reference sheet of tree information (press release 391-77).

Includes the internal report of New York City "Weekly Indicators" for August 1-14, prepared by the Research Section of the Economic Development Administration; photocopy of the interview report for David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") prepared by the Pretrial Services Agency (Aug. 11) (Includes only basic identifying information); and the report from accountants Peat, Marwick, Mitchell in response to questions posed by the Emergency Financial Control Board (Aug. 11).

Includes the Report in Support of Indirect Source Permit for Westway: Response to Hearing Officer Recommendation of September 13, 1977 prepared by the Westway Expediting Council (Oct 7); theprogram for the Citicorp Center Dedication Ceremonies, in the shape of the building (Oct 12); and a brochure issued in connection with the Algonquin Hotel's 75th anniversary ((Oct 18).

Includes the Response of the City of New York to the Report of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Transactions in Securities of the City of New York.

Includes a few documents that could not be specifically placed as to date, but are likely from 1976-77.

Includes various documents related to Beame including a speech identified only by date (12 March 1979) in which Beame reflects on his administration in the context of disagreeing with those who see the steady decline of cities; arrangements for a reunion of Beame staff members (1983); newspaper articles; and an undated artifact: a plastic bag from the Daily News bearing the saying "We're Glad to be Back."