Series VI. General Subjects, 1966-2013, inclusive

Report prepared for the New York City Planning Commission by architects and planners Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd; architects and planners Whittlesey, Conklin and Rossant; and transportation & planning consultants Alan M. Voorhees & Associates.

Includes a draft co-authored by Zuccotti and James D. Carroll, apparently in connection with work for the National Corporation for Housing Partnership.

Includes the report issued by Lincoln Square Community Council and the New York City Department of City Planning.

Includes draft report/working paper 112-28 by Sylvan Kamm, issued by The Urban Institute.

Includes preliminary summaries of three study panels held in late 1970 by the Subcommittee on Housing of the House Committee on Banking and Currency; the full remarks, "The Goals of Housing Subsidy Programs," by one of the panelists, Morton L. Isler; the final report and recommendations issued by the committee in June 1971 under the title "Housing and the Urban Environment," and two copies of Part II of the published versions of the panels' papers (Part I not in the collection).

Material Systems Corporation (MSC) developed and manufactured low cost factory produced homes, garden apartments and townhouses. A primary part of its business was in connection with HUD's experimental housing program, Operation Breakthrough. Zuccotti was on the company's Board of Directors. The documents include a draft "Introduction" to the company with product descriptions, organizational information, financial data, etc. (1972); a preliminary prospectus for a public stock offering (1972); a proposal for the company to develop low cost housing in Mexico, with related assessments about foreign expansion; and the Board minutes of 21 March 1973 concerning the company's refinancing.

Includes the New York City Planning Commission's supplement to "Plan for New York City."

Includes documents related to the possibility of the firms Tufo, Johnson and Zuccotti and Walker & Dunlop forming a development company specializing in FHA programs. In addition to cost benefit and other analyses of the organization, there are some documents related to then active projects (Skytower Apartments in Washington, DC; Mall View Apartments in Frederick and Leafy House Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland; Winchester Gardens in Winchester, Virginia; and others not specified by name).

Includes a few documents related to Zuccotti's term on the Commission: a letter supporting Zuccotti's vote in favor of low rent housing in Battery Park City; Report of Investigation Concerning Forest Hills Low-Income Housing Project by Mario Cuomo; reprint of Roger Starr's "The Lesson of Forest Hills"; the report of Citizens Housing & Planning Council's Committee on City-Aided Mitchell-Lama Housing; pages 2-49 of a task force report concerning housing; and a letter from Two Trees describing their proposal to co-op Park Terrace Gardens (1973).

Includes documents related to "The Group" comprised of various individuals, including Zuccotti and S.F. Boden of the Association for Middle Income Housing, that formed to consider solutions to housing problems in New York City.

Includes a "Chronology of Important Disclosures Concerning City of N.Y.'s Fiscal Conditions," 1974-75, with copies of press releases and other related documents; chronologies covering 1974-1981 concerning various aspects of the crisis, prepared by Program Planners, Inc.; and various clippings.

Includes the content of a binder: covers (only) of various city reports and copies of letters from individuals or organizations expressing appreciation of the report.

Includes a position description for Deputy Mayor for Economic Development; copies of memos from Deputy Mayor Osborn Elliott to Mayor Beame concerning economic recovery; a draft prospectus and a proposal for an Economic Development Corporation, and various recovery concepts; the report Economic Recovery: New York City's Program for 1977-1981; an economic recovery progress report as of October 1977; a draft analysis of the PBA's annuity deferral; a copy of the Neighborhood Strategy Areas: A Guidebook for Local Government; and some of Zuccotti's speeches and testimony from 1973-1975.

Includes a fact sheet prepared for Zuccotti on New York's tax abatement and building incentive programs; a memo prepared for Mayor Beame on the President's National Energy Plan; and memos on the city's economic development legislative package.

Includes three reports: Cooperative Community Planning (June 1977) and A New Zoning for New York City (July 1977), both issued by the City Planning Commission, and A New Partnership to Conserve America's Communities: A Status Report on the President's Urban Policy" (June 1978), issued by the White House.

Booklet prepared by Eve Cary for the New York Civil Liberties Union

Includes an unattributed preliminary draft of "Proposal for the South Bronx" (11 April 1978) and a memo "analyzing comparative performance capacities of alternative implementation systems proposed for the South Bronx" issued by the South Bronx Development Office (August 1980).

Includes portions of Volume II submitted by the Harlem Urban Development Corporation; these include the report "Commercial Development Impact on 125th Street, Harlem, New York" (1977) prepared by Jerome Michael & Associates; site appraisals; and "Harlem Two Year Development Plan: Summary" (1977).

Includes Agenda for Economic Development issued by Mayor Beame's Policy Committee (1975); the proceedings of the institute sponsored by the New York City Council on Economic Education (25 April 1979), inscribed by participant Albert Alexander to Robert F. Wagner, Jr.; Regional and Economic Development Strategies for the 1980s (May 1979), issued by the Port Authority of NY & NJ's Committee on the Future; and Report on Economic Conditions in New York City"] (15 September 1979).

Includes documents related to Zuccotti's participation on Governor Hugh Carey's Advisory Committee (1980): copy of the final report submitted to Carey over Felix Rohatyn's signature on behalf of the Committee, the Regional Plan Association's favorable response and a related 1980 paper "Manhattan's Future" from the RPA, minutes of the Committee's meeting of 9 April 1980 and Rohatyn's summary and action points from the meeting, and three reports (1976) from the Business/Labor Working Group headed by David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank and Harry Van Arsdale of the Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Includes the draft report (June 1980) issued by the Department of City Planning, and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects' comments on it (10 March 1981).

Includes the report to Governor Hugh L. Carey of the World Trade Task Force, formed by Carey and chaired by Zuccotti.

Includes three booklets: New York City Tax Guide (1982), issued by the Department of Finance; Rules of Procedure (1983), issued by the Board of Standards and Appeals; and Zoning Handbook: A Guide to New York City's Zoning Resolution (1990).

Includes two publications: Lofts: Balancing the Equities (June 1983), issued by the City Planning Commission, and The Report of the Mayor's [Koch] Blue Ribbon Panel on Building Plan Examination and Review (1985?).

Includes two copies of the proposed project description prepared for the Shubert, Nederlander and Jujamcyn Organizations by Cooper, Eckstut Associates.

Includes the booklet published by Random House as a "special limited edition of excerpts for the friends of Governor Cuomo and Random House."

Includes Wood's "Black Leadership Styles: What's Best for the Eighties?" (1984), "The Great Society in 1984: Relic or Reality?" (1984), "A Profession [Human Services] in Double Jeopardy" (1985), "Lifting the Siege" (1985), "Mayor Richard Lee [of New Haven, Conn.]: A National Vantage" (1986), "Present Before the Creation [of the Great Society and HUD]: Lessons from the Paleozoic Age of Urban Affairs" (1990), an informal recollection by Wood on "How History Should Remember President Johnson" (1994), and Philip Brownstein's recollections of how HUD's Austin Oaks housing project came to be (1994). Zuccotti is mentioned in the last item, which was forwarded to him by Wood for comment.

Includes the Reports to the Legislature for NYS-OER/CSEA's Joint Labor-Management Committee on Work Environment and Productivity, NYS-OER/Council 82 AFSCME's Joint Labor-Management Committee on Quality of Work Life, and NYS-OER/PDQ's Joint Labor-Management Committee on Professional Development and Quality of Working Life (1982); the New York State Committee on the Work Environment and Productivity Progress Report for 1979-1982; program and relalted documents for the First Annual Conference on New York City Public Transit (12 December 1982); and clippings and other documents related to labor relations and programs.

Includes the agreement between the New York City Transit Authority and Subway-Surface Supervisors Association (August 1982) and "An Outline of Procedure Under Arbitration Law in New York" (1984).

Includes Zuccotti's remarks and documents related to the Subway-Surface Supervisors Association Stewards Seminar of 1983 and 1985.

Includes various arbitrated matters between transit authorities and the Transport Workers Union Local 100. Also includes the handbook of "Policy Instruction: Drugs and Controlled Substances" for the transit authorities.

Includes the "Agreement between New York City Transit Authority, Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, and Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100, AFL-CIO."

Includes the "Agreement between New York City Transit Authority, Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, and Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100, AFL-CIO."

Includes the report with narrative and statistics prepared by Program Planners, Inc., with a memo summarizing the report for Zuccotti.

Includes the informational brochure provided to potential investors by Starrett Housing Corporation.

Concerns a legal analysis of whether, in a particular circumstance, an occupied single room occupancy (SRO) dwelling could be demolished.

Zuccotti co-chaired the Commission. Includes the agenda for the Commission's first meeting (22 September 1987); draft workplace principles (1988); the final report AIDS: Is There a Will to Meet the Challenge? (February 1991); a later publication, Orphans of the HIV Epidemic: Unmet Needs in Six U.S. Cities, co-authored by the Commission's former Executive Director, Carol Levine; and some reference material.

This is the report to Mayor Edward I. Koch of his Advisory Task Force on the Homeless, of which Zuccotti was a member.

Includes letters of congratulations and clippings concerning Tufo & Zuccotti's merger with Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell & Petty to form the firm Brown & Wood. Also includes a publicity brochure for Brown & Wood from the late 1980s, with Zuccotti pictured.

Report issued by the Department of City Planning.

Zuccotti led the workshop "Implementing Mobility Improvements" at this conference organized by the Bi-State Transportation Forum (13 December 1988). Includes program, outline for Zuccotti's workshop, pre-conference papers and other preparatory material (1988) and the post-conference Summary and a follow-on report "Regional Transportation: Current Conditions and Future Prospects: An Interagency Assessment" (1989). The file also holds the report Regional Recovery: The Business of the Eighties (1979), issued by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's Committee on the Future.

Includes the report by a special committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the related press release.

Includes documents from 1988-1989 when O & Y was a client of Zuccotti's while he was at Brown & Wood, and from 1990 forward when he led O & Y. The documents principally concern tax assessment decreases on O & Y's properties and the resulting press coverage of the matter (1988) and O & Y's financial difficulties in the early 1990s. Most of the latter are press clippings. Other documents include a briefing note for Zuccotti prior to his meeting with Mayor David Dinkins in July 1991; a photograph of Dinkins, Zuccotti and others, signed by Dinkins, at an O & Y project unveiling (January 1990); a photograph of Zuccotti with Paul Reichmann; a draft of a resignation letter from O & Y for Zuccotti, not used (1992); a copy of Reichmann's formal resignation from O & Y (1993); and marketing material for outsourced administrative services from Automated Property Administration (1996).

Includes two versions of the Commission's report to Mayor Dinkins (July/September 1991 and December 1991); an "Interim Report on New York City's Economy, Office Space Market and Fiscal Conditions" (8 March 1991), prepared by Program Planners, Inc.; and various documents found within the Program Planners publication, including an agenda for the Commission's 10 April 1991 meeting, notes on New York's continuing fiscal problem, property tax analysis by the Real Estate Board of New York, and other documents.

Zuccotti was a member of the Commission, chaired by Andrew M. Cuomo. Includes two documents: transcript of the Commission's public hearing held on 14 January 1992 and the final report The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy (February 1992).

New York City's planning and zoning report, issued by the Planning Commission, for public discussion.

Includes copies of the booklet Plan for Lower Manhattan issued by the Department of City Planning (1993) and a presentation "A Plan for the Revitalization of Lower Manhattan" prepared by the Lower Manhattan Task Force (15 December 1994).

Includes two reports to the Alliance: one prepared by Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler concerning the residential market, and one prepared by Penn + Schoen Associates on a survey of public opinion.

First edition of publication by The Real Estate Board of New York.

2001 La Guardia and Wagner Archives Calendar. Includes biographical notes and images from Beame's life. Zuccotti appears in one image, at June.

Includes two newsletters: "Bankruptcy Bulletin," Vol. 3, No. 12 (December 1996) and "Business & Securities Litigator," Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1997), which focuses on fiduciary duties of directors of financially troubled corporations.

Includes the preliminary recommendations for charter revision from the staff to the Commission for both 27 July 1999 and 27 July 2001.

Includes background material for the Executive Committee meeting of 7 April 2003, including a schematic of Manhattanville showing Columbia's then-current and anticipated ownership, and architectural plans by Polshek Partnershipo showing the relation of Columbia's southeast site to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Includes Lower Manhattan Transportation Strategies, co-published by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Port Authority, and others. Also includes the Real Estate Board of New York's paper "Zoning and Manufacturing: A Balanced Approach to New York City's Growth"; a flier protesting a proposed West Street Tunnel; a letter from Community Board No. 1 concerning a proposed bridge along Vesey Street; a fact sheet concerning a feasibility study for the extension of Route 9A bypass tunnel to Albany Street; documents concerning using Liberty Bonds for downtown projects.

Includes the report published by Citizens Housing & Planning Council and the Regional Plan Association, the related press release, and notes on high impact strategies for housing for working families from American Property Financing/Wachovia Bank.

Report published by the Partnership for New York City.

Co-chaired by Dan Carp, Ken Chenault, and Felix Rohatyn; Zuccotti was a member.

Includes a Brookfield Properties presentation "Eastern and Western Rail Yards" (2007 March 8) and an unattributed and undated presentation "Recent/Current Development: Gansevoort Market and Far West Chelsea." (These were found inside the PlanNYC brochure above.)

Primarily includes documents concerning a fundraising breakfast for the Foundation at Gracie Mansion attended by representatives of the construction/real estate sector. Also includes Zuccotti's talking points for the Foundation's Board meeting of 25 January 2007.

Includes Reviving the City of Aspiration: A Study of the Challenges Facing New York City's Middle Class, published by the Center for an Urban Future, and the results of a survey of attendees at a Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) conference.

Includes Deborah Pope's presentation to the Foundation board on 14 September 2010 about Shangri-La (Hawaii) and the catalogue Extraordinary Vision: Doris Duke and the Newport [Rhode Island] Restoration Foundation.

Includes documents, including kick-off meeting presentation and preliminary findings, related to the Alliance for Downtown New York's engagement of the Regional Plan Association to perform a study for a one-seat ride from the World Trade Center to Newark Airport in New Jersey (2011). The folder also holds the 1975 report of the Mayor's {Beame) Policy Committee, Transportation: Policy and Programs.

Includes the report published by NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, with a transmittal letter to Zuccotti, and publicity items for the report.

Hosted by Zuccotti on 9 November 2011. Also includes Gill's remarks on receiving Fordham's Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).

Includes press coverage of the re-opening of One Liberty Plaza and its renaming as Zuccotti Park.

Includes Brookfield emails, press coverage, complaints, and other documents related to the protests/occupation on the plaza.

Includes various publicity material and proposals concerning the island in relation to interesting Zuccotti as a member of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Includes the RPA's letter to the City Planning Commission opposing Madison Square Garden's request for an infinite special zoning permit to operate its arena above Pennsylvania Station, Zuccotti's email in disagreement with the RPA's position, Paul Selver's testimony on behalf of the Garden, and other documents.