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       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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                                                             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 Tenant Torres had descended several flight of stairs, gotten
to the scene and bullets were still flying. They were drug war-lord
bullets. Tenants allege that calls were still being made to 9-1-1
with bullets being fired in the background. Now this should be very
easy to check, as all calls to 9-1-1 are taped. How about someone
listening to the tape's callers and background noise?

Is drug dealing sanctioned by New York City Housing Authority big
shots? Day time drug related shootings are common at both Red Hook
and Queensbridge Houses.

On December 6, 1992 the Queensbridge Tenant Council faxed NYC HA
Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero to say that a few hours earlier
that the New York City Housing Authority Police had arrested someone
who had been shooting from a window of 40-09 Vernon Boulevard.
Hernandez-Pinero was asked:
     "How come we never hear of these people who shoot from the roof
tops, the windows and the street corners getting evicted?
     Please see attached FRONT COVER story from one of the weekly
newspapers regarding Queensbridge Houses. FIVE people were shot here
in November!!!! The story highlights our latest homicide.
     As you may know, we average one homicide every three months here
at Queensbridge Houses. Don't you think that this is a little
excessive?"

NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero never responded and the
next week Patrick Daly was killed in another dangerous project.

Is NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero just looking the other
way, or is she really ignorant of problems? One has to wonder about
her capabilities.

The National Hispanic Housing Council, while brandishing a charge of
racism against HUD, was recommending that Hernandez-Pinero replace
Kemp as HUD Secretary. Hernandez-Pinero was informed that the NYC HA
is sending out racial questionnaires which are in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law,
the Sixteenth Amendment's guarantees of right to vote regardless of
race and a 1967 US Supreme Court decision.

Hernandez-Pinero was told regarding shootings and the racial
questionnaires;
         "Should you feel that things should stay the way they are,
   it is not necessary to respond ..."

And so it came to pass -there was no response from Chairperson
Hernandez-Pinero.

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