Exchange with Martin Schwarzschild about Lighting, Parking, and Sanitation in the West Side (1972)

1. Martin Schwarzschild to R. Lamm (Nov. 6, 1972)

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Dear Marvin: It was a pleasure seeing you at the “Sukkah in the Sky” a couple of weeks ago. I assume that with the closing of the holidays, both of us have come down to earth. Permit me to burden you with a request for information which you may be in a position to obtain for me. There is a good deal of housing going up in the area just north of my synagogue. I am anxious to contact Jewish residents both for purposes of “schooling” and “shooling.” The Housing and Development Administration sent me the Directory of Publicly Aided Housing Developments, but that does not contain a list of names of tenants. Hence, two questions: 1. Is such a list of names available so that we might pick out the Jewish names? 2. Does the city have any lists of specifically Jewish tenants? Do be good enough to let me hear from you, and best regards. Cordially, Rabbi Norman Lamm

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