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                                                             Contact:
          Ray Normandeau of Queensbridge Tenant Council, 718-392-1267
          AFTRA/SAG member Ray Normandeau is available for interviews
                          E-Mail Internet: ray.normandeau@factory.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


       Red Hook Shooting & the New York City Housing Authority
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    The Real War-Lords Are Well Protected in the Housing Projects
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Red Hook residents as well as residents of other New York City
Housing Authority projects feel that the New York City Housing
Authority is largely to blame for the shooting of Patrick Daly,
principal of P.S. 15 due to negligence and perhaps direct involvement
of some Housing Authority employees in drug trafficking.

Criminals rule the roost at some projects such as Red Hook and
Queensbridge Houses. This past summer when Red Hook Manager Mae
Tannenbaum staged an "Anti-Crime" picnic at Red Hook, gun fire
erupted at the picnic itself. At Queensbridge Houses in August 1990
the New York City Housing Authority Police shamelessly told tenants
to participate in "A march to take a bite out of crime"; so what
happened? A child ventured out to march and was bitten by a drug
dealer's pit bull! This was reported in the Long Island City Journal.

In 1987 there was a "QUEENSBRIDGE ... VS DRUGS, CRIME" concert; so
what happened? FIVE people were shot with one killed at the concert!

The New York City Housing Authority knows more then they are willing
to talk about! That's why they tamper with tenant organization
politics.

Let's stick for a moment to the Red Hook case of Principal Patrick
Daly, 48.

This happened in mid-day not too far from the management office. The
incident happened at the back end of the center mall known as "No
Man's Land." That this area has been given up to drug dealing in its
entirety convinces tenants that only New York City Housing Authority
employee participation makes it possible.

Tenants allege that the New York City Housing Authority Police's main
law enforcement thrust at Red Hook is in 8:00 AM checks of the
employee parking lot for outdated inspection stickers.

Tenants contradict those who say that Red Hook crime has gone down
over the last few years by saying that what has really happened is
that less people call 9-1-1. It's no wonder -tenants say that 9-1-1
calls don't get much respect at Red Hook. Tenants have been told that
9-1-1 calls are prioritized by computer based on original 10-Code as
input at the answering position and then units dispatched based on
availability. Now the way it really is! If a unit is having a meal
break or is checking the VIN number of an abandoned car shell, and a
call comes over for "Man down", are the units in the area as likely
to interrupt what they are doing at Red Hook as they would for a job
in a White area? Tenants say that lives in the project are not as
valued as lives in more upscale area.

Specifically in the Patrick Daly case, tenants allege that over 15
minutes elapsed before any emergency help arrived.

UPI copy stated '"I asked him not to give up on me," said Torres, a
former Marine and policeman, who told of bullets flying overhead even
as he kept up the attempt to resuscitate Daly.'

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