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We are happy that you are able to help us celebrate AAT tenth anniversary in the brief span of ten years the Coliseum has become one of the city's major landmarks it is vitally him Vall of the New York's future and its part of the Coliseum. We have vitally interested. In seeing that the city continues to grow and prosper we hope that you will enjoy this morning's program and that it contributes in some small way to making New York City a better place to live how down like to turn the morning's meeting over to our champ Mr Howard Sloan managing director of the Coliseum thank you thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for coming to so promptly this morning. All of us here today. And the organizations that we all represent. Are vitally interested in the subject of our symposium. We either live or work in New York or both the posters announcing this morning's program. Asked the question What is New York City's future. Surely this is a question. Each of us is forced to ask more and more each day. Just as we ask this morning when we get tied up in traffic great city is like New York are borne out of need the need to live together. And to work together as our population and art technology has grown the needs have grown more acute educational needs transportation police protection sanitation to name only a few. Despite these needs History is filled with records of great cities that have a die. Some like Pompei died of natural causes others like Carthage Sparta our own ghost towns throughout the country have been killed by the hand of man. This morning we are here to talk about New York where you want to talk about it. Because we sense that our problems are growing more acute not with us we are not dead yet. But we are not entirely healthy either. Every morning we are made aware of a growing crime rate. An actual population decline especially of middle income families with children. Rising taxes. Creasing number of people on the welfare rolls polluted air shortage of fresh water. The problems of New York. For shadow the problems of an entire nation. What we do here in the next decade can be of primary importance. Ultimately in solving problems of big cities throughout the nation. It is fitting that we are gathered here this morning at the Coliseum which was created just a decade ago as a result of the foresight and vision of Robert Moses and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority the Coliseum is a shining example. Of. What can be done to revitalize a neighborhood an area and perhaps a city during the past ten years the Coliseum alone has paid host to more than twenty four million people. More than ten million dollars has been paid into the city treasury directly by the Coliseum the Coliseum has generated more than ten billion dollars in additional commerce for the city this is but one building and only one example of what can be done. Other constructive programs are needed to cure our city's ills and needed desperately. Now we are fortunate in having this morning seated next to me. Secretary would undersecretary would you know that for more than fifty years the farmers of this nation have looked to the United States Department of Agriculture for help unions of look to the Department of Labor and businesses deter has turned to the Department of Commerce but only during the past year. Have a growing number of people in the United States who live in metropolitan centers. Been able to point to a federal agency specifically charged with the responsibility of looking after their needs perhaps I should say our needs our next speaker. Has the distinction of being the nation's first Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is faced with problems which have no precedent in our history. Aptly. He is the author of a number of distinguished books and two of them are of special interest to those of us who live and work around New York one is entitled Metropolis against itself another is called suburbia. Its people and their politics. He has written a third book entitled fourteen hundred governments specifically about the problems of New York prior to his appointment this January as undersecretary Robert C. would serve this chairman of the political science department. Of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he served with the United States Bureau of the budget from one nine hundred fifty one to one nine hundred fifty four and as a management organization expert in the housing bureau he was chairman of President Johnson's task force on Urban Development. Which laid the groundwork for the organization. Of this new department. Before turning the microphone over to Secretary would I would like to make one request he has fallen down from Washington this morning to be here and he asks after his talk and that question period that he be excused excused it's now my pleasure to introduce Roberts the way. Mr Chairman. Ladies and gentleman in New York I'm very glad to be here this morning to share the program and the activities however briefly with my island see and your other distinguished guest as you may know the mayor and I assumed office in the same month of January this year can hear what this one is now. I was saying that I will share the program with your distinguished new mayor Mr Lindsey and the festivities that follow. I was pointing out to Malin he and I share the distinction of assuming office at the same month of January. However I believe that the mayor. Suffers under some handicaps that I don't have to bear for one thing his political experience prayer prior to his office was limited to service in the night you know Congress. I had the good fortune to come up through academic politics. And as one great Columbia professor one said Wallace say the first law of academic politics is the reason that university politics is so sordid is that the stakes are so low so that I stand today from the academic world from the from the vantage point of studying urban affairs in an effort to go forward and assist secretary Weaver in some action programs from the national level because I am still in this role. I have not yet really been able to. Develop the habit some of the people from public information of that apartment would like me to do that is to read speeches that they have prepared for me I've taken the position that I'm not prepared to read their speeches until they've read my books and until since neither one of us are so sure of which is a more painful experience you'll forgive me this morning if I talk in terms of some informal comments for the theme I would like to strike as we meet on the tenth anniversary of the Colosseum is that any anniversary program. Is an opportunity to look ahead as well as a time to reflect on accomplishments in the past and in the era of New York and its future I would like to look ahead in a nonpartisan assembly. Such as this one and representative group such as this one for our great cities are too important to be left to drift in the narrow and the sometimes short sighted waters of partisan politics Secretary Weaver not so long ago described your city of New York this way no place on this planet he said so typifies a city as does New York no where else in this nation is such diversity such congestion such outpouring a roar human energy nowhere do you find palaces of culture wedge in alongside of policies of Commerce and where the pursuit of art is as vivid as a chase for the fast buck in a very real sense New York is a world of brilliant paradise a blinding hell this very special world that you live in has a stupendous record of tearing itself down and rebuilding itself again since the end of World War two some sixty five million square feet of office space has been created in your city some three hundred million dollars of urban renewal funds have been committed to forty five different projects and you have had a proud history of pioneering in the tools of city building your city as far back as eight hundred sixty seven passes nation's first tenement house Law aim for the first time had clearing out the uninhabitable but at that time very inhabited basements. In one thousand know one you passed the law that outlawed the so-called dumb bell Tenet you passed in one nine hundred sixteen the first major zoning already in ordinance and the nation's first public housing project went up here in one nine hundred thirty five seven years later the federal or been renewed or program was anticipated with New York's Redevelopment Corporation Law So from this beginning you have used the tools of city building you know broader front and often with more vigor than anywhere else in the nation. But the past is not enough in terms of the future direction of city building and today's programs of the federal state and local government are very different from those that were in existence when this coliseum was constructed then we stress the importance of this building to the restructuring of the city's tax base to the recapturing of economic strait today we are more likely to focus our attention on one hundred fourteenth Street Tompkins Square on the Lower East Side. For we are beginning to realize that cities are more than simple economic centers of great strength. Our commercial centers of activity but we are beginning to realize that they also have to be where people are and where people can live and certainly with the hundred thousand blighted dwelling units now exists. The total number of homes have half a million that need rehabilitation we know that New Directions are required in urban building. The president characterized the issue this year when he said that years of experience with urban renewal have taught us about it strengths and weaknesses and since one thousand nine hundred sixty one we have made major alternatives in its administration we have made it more responsive to human needs more vigorously enforcing the requirement to workable programs more vigorously caring about the plight and the activity of the poor and he has stablished at that time the objective the new objective for the decades ahead of city renewal and of urban development for he said it was nothing less than to improve the quality of life for every American so these objectives these shifts from a preoccupation of whether or not the city would survive with a preoccupation of whether its economic and commercial and industrial strength would stay to a new focus into new activity of the power of the livable city of the city where people could find residence characterize the present view of city building. These new approaches we find not only in our own programs have a new department not only our new programs for moderate income for run supplements for neighborhood Senate senators and parks but we find it in a series of programs of state and federal and local collaboration the community action programs the Job Corps the neighborhood use head start they be a educational programs now combine to make this common focus and in January of this year the president took the major step on which we attack. Undertake to. Make the urban turn about he propose the demonstration city program which for the first time would bring all these programs together in an intensive drive to build a livable American city. The demonstration city program now under consideration by the Congress attempts for those cities had wooden wish to participate to make a comprehensive attack on the tar range of urban programs and it is based on the promise that the twenty years of experience in city building across the nation and I have century of experience of more of New York City means that we now have the ingenuity and the inventiveness to salt the present problems in American cities now and not to leave them until the next generation the legislation has three basic characteristics. First US cities to think big in terms of the restructuring and reconstitution of entire neighborhoods in terms of affecting twenty to thirty percent of the sub standard units within a city and five to fifteen percent of the total city population it says that entire neighborhoods not one project or another but that entire sections and neighborhoods have to be Khan tacked on a massive scale so that the environment the schools the parks and playgrounds as well as housing are put together in a comprehensive package it says that if cities wish to take this road that the federal government will respond with a coordinated approach combining the four range of existing gratin aid programs and planning human and physical development in the same time and in the same way and it says foreign really that the program will. Will be a quality program moving by fourteen criteria fourteen standards in a scheduled way so that one one seeks not just a tolerable are livable city in the in the terms of mediocrity but that one seeks the best city one can find their stress on target area on particular impacts one that one or two or three concentrated focal points means that we will move forward in large scale attacks trying to develop a centrally residential neighborhood that upgrade the environment for the poor and the disadvantaged as first priority when cities participate when. On the inaction of the legislation when they choose to go forward the federal government will provide not only planning assistance at a higher level than before but a special supplemental Grant on top of the additional on the the regular categorical Gretton aid programs and when this program is started new emphases comes on rehabilitation housing new an emphasis comes on residential and Neighborhood Development. This program I think is the new direction and the new landmark of the federal government's effort to help the great American cities transform themselves and move forward into a new era we have the first beginning of this new of this new approach already on the statute books with the passage of the funding on an experimental basis of the rent supplement program this month but this is just the beginning of trying to redirect the the efforts in the past year and the plans of the federal government it is in the combination of renewal and rehabilitation of schools hospitals neighborhood facilities parks centers and open spaces it is in the matching of public and private activities it is in the comprehensive development of a new strategy that the new directions of federal state and local efforts are now directed. One way to see physically and directly how these new concepts of city building are beginning to look at another part of Manhattan bar on the one hundred fourteenth Street Project of the rehabilitation of thirty seven old law tenements as this goes on the federal government and nonprofit institutions the city of New York and private buildings are demonstrating in a beginning a way to work together to demonstrate the proposition that better housing can be created in this city without widespread dislocation. So far the results are encouraging and perhaps most encouraging is a fact that private entrepreneurs. Have since this project started been bold enough to strike out on ventures of their own. It is too early to say. With any clarity whether or not the new directions I have spoken of the new kinds of legislative proposals that are now before the Congress the new experiment says represented by the hundred fourteenth Street projects are indeed the wave of the future it is too easy early to say whether the techniques in city building whether our skills and knowledge and know how are sufficient to make the turn about that we seek but I think it is now clearly demonstrable that we have passed one stage of the question of the pattern of American urban growth we have passed a stage that Hornet and dog the American people in the late one nine hundred forty S. in the one nine hundred fifty S. of whether or not our great cities would survive of whether they still would be black or the centers of vitality and I've activity of our new metropolitan areas I think we know now that these cities will survive that the time of the one nine hundred fifty S. when one worried about urban sprawl when one talked of the collapse and decay in the Klein of The American city when one was ready to consign this to a new spreading blacktop culture that this period of concern has passed and now the question is not whether the American city is to survive the question is whether the American city will. Manage to realize the potential of what great American cities can Merican great cities can be of whether we can fashion in this generation and the coming generation they are American response to the cathedral on the policies of Europe or to the splendid structures physically visible it visibly one can find in Latin America this turning point to what the city might be to what it. Can be to how it can really be made more livable as well as more economically efficient to whether it's human concerns can be given the same priority as his physical concerns is I think our great American domestic adventure and I believe that though it will take money and time and hard work a willingness to rebuild institutions as well as neighborhood to deal with the new kinds of urban politics I believe this is a most worthwhile venture a nation at home can be embarked on the stakes so high. How and they make the game worth playing for once we realize the great American cities are here to stay and once we ask the question of how well they can become we are I think on the beginning of turning a corner in American civilization and culture. All of this will not be done immediately all of this will not be done at once. All of it will take more than the rhetoric I have given you this morning. As former mayor Lagardere once observed take a tape for Getty but despite getting the work they promise I think it's here and I think when one celebrates the Coliseum and its tenth anniversary one expects even greater things ahead thank you very much. Thank you very much Mr Secretary for years I wanted to find a place to use John Daley story which goes something like this our next speaker needs no introduction because he hasn't shown up. This morning I thought perhaps I was finally going to get a chance to use it but I'm glad to say that the time is not yet here our next speaker said our Kyo keel has been described in a national magazine article. In Newsweek as a matter of fact as the Michaelangelo of collective bargaining. Probably no one no one more than Mr Keogh has been privy to the headaches which constantly besiege both business and labor in New York. His part in mediating the city's transit strike the longshoreman strike. The eastern Gulf Coast maritime strike. And not least past and current New York newspaper strikes. Have gained him national attention it was also prominent in the newspapers this morning involved in the mediation of the and C.A.A. and the a huge disputes. Despite all these family quarrels Mr Keel remains an optimist. He predicts Irene nascence of the Port of New York. Highly respected by both management and labor he remains on friendly terms with both regardless of the outcome of a conflict. Chief mediator of labor management disputes for the city of New York executive director of The New York City Institute of America and of the American Foundation on automation and on the unemployment I'm pleased to present a good friend of ours and of yours Mr Ted he'll. Thank you Howard Sloan that be the mayor Costello and author smack back and ladies and gentleman. First would like to congratulate you authors back and Howard Sloan on the magnificent job you have done as the custodians of the coliseum during the last ten years it truly has been a great contribution to the future of this city about which we concern ourselves here this morning. I am going to confine my remarks in response to the question Can business grow or prosper in New York City. To the matter of whether or not our labor management affairs are an impediment or a help to such growth. Now it is true is Howard Sloan pointed out that I'm usually involved in the disputing side of labor management affairs. I have the opportunity I don't know if it's a welcome one to see people at their worst when they're fighting with each other. And when they are sometimes calling each other names and getting excited about what they think should be done and you might infer from that that. I would in due course take a pretty jaundiced view of these people that I deal with. And the kind of conduct that they engage in usually in my presence Well the fact is. That practically every labor dispute. In due course ends and the invariable custom and tradition in labor relations in the United States. Is for the parties to come together to shake hands to have their pictures taken for television and radio and the newspapers and to go about their business the next day Now you might think that that is a pose. That they are doing that. For the publicity. The fact is of course that labor and management have a unique relationship because unlike any of the other dynamic relationships that I am familiar with that I know of be at the relationship of one country to another. Or a man to a woman the. Companies and unions of this country must live together to survive without the workers there is no work there are no jobs without the companies there are no profits there is no business. Now New York. Is an unusual places we all know it's mere size and activities and variety of activities make it the focal point of attention of the world practically anything and everything that happens in New York City is covered extensively by radio television in the press is reported throughout the nation. And we New Yorkers have a happy faculty for being newsworthy. Our Mayor La Guardia. Some many years ago one said about a mistake that he had made that he didn't often make a mistake but that when he made one it was a beaut. We have strikes in New York City and I will very shortly give you the statistics on the US and the statistics show conclusively that we'd lose fewer man days of work due to strikes than the entire nation as a whole. The statistics are quite simple the national average for nine hundred sixty four. Was eighteen one hundredths of one percent time lost due to strikes for the same year which was not an exceptional year in New York City. Our average was point over five percent. For the period nine hundred fifty eight to nine hundred sixty five. We had an A an average in New York City. Of eleven one hundredths of one percent of man day's work lost due to strikes the national average during that period was twenty two hundredth of one percent. But we have had some spectacular strikes in New York City. And they have been covered throughout the world and they have created an impression about this city. That we're strike happy. And that is completely contrary to the fact. Despite the spectacular nature of the few strikes that we have had it is also said. That industry is fleeing from New York City. That there is a flight. Of manufacturing industry from the city this is also incorrect. Keith McHugh who is the commissioner of industry and commerce of the state of New York. Pointed out recently that the trend of manufacturing companies from urban communities was national and for very obvious reasons factory six pace where they can spread out and have a horizontal operation and they are moving from urban communities with the traffic and travel problems and other problems of the community to suburban areas New York is not exceptional in this respect and in the course of the last five years we've lost an average of about nine hundred thousand jobs a year. As the result of manufacturing industry moving out of the city but in the same period we more than recouped that loss with additional jobs in industries that can grow and can prosper in a city like New York City. We also have the question that arises. In connection with the matter of jobs in the city. When we reflect on a story I heard of the woman. Who read in the papers that Macy's. Had a had a sale in its basement and she got into a limousine in Westchester somewhere and drove down to Macy's parking her car alongside of the. Trucks and traffic in the area and wandering into the basement to find thousands of people there and she proceeded to elbow her way through the crowd as mad as can be and she said no wonder nobody ever comes here it's so crowded. The. Fact is. That we have in New York City a definable piece of territory it's five boroughs and there are some interesting statistics which bear on another point and that is that unemployment in New York is higher. Than it is elsewhere in the nation. The fact is. That at the present time. There are some seven hundred thousand people approximately who live outside of the city and who commute to the city every day and I think Mayor Lindsay might be interested in the statistics of the hasn't already gotten them. Who have jobs in the city and needless to say they're welcome here and they make a very substantial contribution to the city but they are also occupying jobs in the sitting there is a reverse flow of people who live in the city and who work out of it of approximately two hundred thousand people so there's a net difference of five hundred thousand who come from out of the city and who work in the city. Now the statistics show also. That at the present time. There are about two hundred twenty thousand people unemployed in New York City. So that we have in point of jobs. Approximately three hundred thousand more jobs than there are people who live in the city. But five hundred thousand of those jobs over the reverse flow are occupied by people who live out of the city the unemployed in the city largely Negro and Puerto Rican. Unfortunately do not possess the skills or the training to occupy the jobs that are occupied by the suburbanites. And this really expresses the problem of the city. The difference between those. That are unemployed who live in the city and the jobs that the city can produce it shows that the city is vibrant that the city has the capacity to prepare produce the jobs and it underscores the problem that we have. This city has always welcomed the newcomer from anywhere in the world. And the negroes that have come from the south and the Puerto Ricans who have come from Puerto Rico are people who will make and are making a great contribution to the growth of the city just as their predecessors the fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers of the people who are now fortunate enough to be able to move to the suburbs did in their time. And the greatness of the city of New York. Has been its willingness to open its own arms and receive these peoples from all over the world and it's to our advantage. To tackle the essential problem that the statistics I've given you reveal and that is the mismatch of jobs and people the lack of training the lack of skill that certain people possess or do not possess to fill the jobs that New York City has the capacity to create. I say to you ladies and gentleman that this city has demonstrated not by the accounts that have appeared in the newspapers of our activity but by what has happened in the jobs and in the plants and in the factories and in the stores and in the financial institutions of the city that we have a great future it has been my experience. As I deal with these people who seem so difficult and so obstinate and so on yielding in the course of negotiations and bargaining and we must remember always that they are engaged in bargaining and people put forward positions in bargaining for trading reasons and you cannot always judge the final solution and its likelihood by what takes place during the intermediate period I know that today there is a recognition in labor and management that there is an identity of interest. That labor cannot exist without management and management cannot exist without labor I know that periodical in connection with new contracts. There are conflicts conflicts that lead to strikes strikes that almost invariably get settled but I know also. That. In between times there is this concern about the development of industry in New York City about the development of new markets and I say to you that in my opinion our concern need not being with those very few industries that are leaving New York principally because wages which are not high wages by any manner of means are nevertheless higher than what they may be able to get in the south or in the Philippines or in some other community that there are industries in New York City that belong here because of what New York City as the headquarter city of the world as the financial capital of the world. As the United Nations of the world has to offer which makes it unique. And I say that those are the industries that we should assist. I once suggested and I repeat now that I think it would be symbolically and practically useful if the city of New York for example were to take its Department of Industry and Commerce and its to Parchman of labor and combine them into one department because they belong together the Department of Commerce is concerned with expanding industry the Department of Labor is concerned with job training and job opportunities. And they are both opposite sides of the same coin. So I am very pleased Mr Sloan and Mr Spock back to be here at your birthday party and to tell a story in such that in response to the question put to me I think very emphatically we have a great future in the ten years that lie ahead thank you. We had scheduled this morning. Mayor John Lindsay as our next speaker Unfortunately he is tied up in an emergency meeting of the Board of Estimate. And I'm sure he's there doing a good job for all of us. Our next speaker is the distinguished deputy Mer Dr Timothy Costello. Thank you very much Mr Sloan It's not but Ted keel I can only tell you that your disappointment that I am not John Lindsay is exceeded only by my own disappointment that I am not John Lindsay. I have to tell you. That the mayor. Had to put ahead of his deep desire to be with you is need to be at the budget hearings before the city council and I hope that you will agree. That a hard decision he had to make this morning was the right decision that although it would have been good. Desirable to for him to be here it is also necessary for him to represent you as he pleads for the budget that he has proposed before the city council the mayor likes to tell a story about the relationship that exists between himself and the city council you know it isn't always the smoothest one or the friendliest one recently he was out sick for two days and someone introduced a resolution into the city council hoping that he would get well soon and be in good health and it's pleasant to report that the measure was passed by a vote of nineteen to fifteen. With one person abstaining because he couldn't quite make up his mind this morning. Briefly I would like to share with you some ten dreams that we in the Lindsay administration have for the ten years ahead before I do I wonder can I express our thanks to the T V T A for making the Colosseum the fine part of New York City life that it is and I wonder whether we will be able to extend our thanks to T. BTA over the next ten years for making it possible for us to have a unified transit system in New York. Let me begin by sharing one dream first dream I have along with the others in the Lindsay administration that is that New York City will begin to be given the full recognition for what it is on the national scene New York City is unquestionably. The greatest national resource that we have building social capital for the communities that surround the city and for the nation at large here in New Yawk the new programs that will spread for our nation are tried out shaped and made effective here in the Occupy we develop the human result says by our fine educational institutions that move out into the nation providing manpower idea power power for social movement across the forty nine other states ne our continues to be a land of opportunity no longer as much for people throughout the world as for people throughout the country from all forty nine states and Puerto Rico come people into New York City seeking the land of opportunity and we propose to keep New York City that land of opportunity but is part of our dream that the total contribution New York City makes to the nation will begin to be recognized and that the federal government will begin to assume a larger share for supporting this national resize than it has in the past. A second dream on a large scale that I have has to do with the values espoused in our country at large today the most exciting thing is whether or not we will land a man on the moon before the Russians do. Whether or not we will explore every neck and cranny in the huge infinite expanses of space and I too agree that this is exciting but I dream that maybe it won't be the most exciting development on the national scene for the next ten years because before we discover how to make it possible for a man to live on the moon I think it's a much more exciting question that we discover how it can be possible to live in comfort and harmony with opportunity for full self actualization. In the cities of our country I think the big question is not space exploration but exploration of the problems that we face in our large metropolitan urban complexes. And I dream as you do that a much larger share of the federal budget will express a new set of values and instead of spending money on defense and space exploration to the tune that we now do we will spend a much larger share of that budget on making cities places where people can live in grow and be happy. I point out to you in this regard that while the percentage of national debt in relation to gross national product is gradually diminishing the percentage of municipal debt in terms of dollars actually spent is increasing very rapidly and we cannot as our credit rating now indicates long allow this to happen. A third dream I would share with you as we look forward to the next decade is that through an education program through a demonstration that we can properly spend citizens' money we will begin to see in New York and in the nation that it is just as important to spend family money for the fine services of education and municipal hospital care as it is to spend that same money for trinkets in the marketplace because believe me ladies and gentleman we are an affluent society only in the narrow a sense of that term we are affluent at the marketplace we are affluent and trick trinkets and physical comforts but we are believe me a the private and underprivileged society when it comes to the essential services that really deliver dignity and decency to the individuals who live in our cities throughout the country. These are. I grant you large dreams but they reflect the largeness of the human spirit. And we pledge you a sense of dedication to harness that human spirit to making real the dreams I am describing for you on a more specific vein we're also interested in dreaming about what can be done specifically. Here in New York City. We are concerned to make the anti-poverty program a real and effective program and right now we are busy looking at what ought to be the goals for such an anti-poverty program at one level it is certainly necessary that we provide adequate income for the individuals for the children for the elderly and for the families who cannot for one reason or another assure themselves of that income and it may be that a minimum wage law will begin to do this it may be that within the next ten years we will want to see a guaranteed minimum family income for every family in the city in the in the country. But this is only one level of attack on poverty that you and I dream about there is another and a crucial level with poverty goes a sense of dependency and a sense of hopelessness and it is as important to destroying that dependency and hopelessness as it is to destroy the economic poverty that has caused it and somehow or other we've got to find ways of demonstrating to the poor in our society that they need not be dependent that they can affect their own destiny that they can take action that will be meaningful in building a new life for them and is it is as important for the anti-poverty funds to be spent in raising. The level of hope as it is that those funds be spent in raising the level of income I dream as you do when there will be no more hopeless totally dependent people in our society if ten years will do it I certainly hope that it will become possible I dream of so many in the audience to that New York City will once again become a safe city so that we can reach a walk our streets in our parks with a sense of security and here also a twofold attack must be launched I think at the moment since crime is rampant we must take action at the police department level and we must deliver to commission a leery the most advanced the most scientific procedures for making available the police presence on every block in the city of New York as is possible within our results says and we are moving forward in this direction we are increasing the mobility of our police force we are increasing the availability of advanced electronic communication devices to the policeman on the street we are introducing the finest modes of electronic data processing so that the police department can become a scientific instrument for preventing crime and making city streets safe once again but there is also the problem of what to do about the causes of crime and here we must also be concerned to develop an active attack if we are going to make a dream become real. Currently New York City operates as far as its correction facilities are concerned nothing but a revolving door operation now this cannot be laid at the doorstep of the past administration nor the Department of Correction but the society itself unless you and I are willing to pay for a program that does more than stall for three months ninety days three years the people who are arrested on our city streets we are not going to make our city streets safe because for every criminal arrested and taken off the city streets the city provides its own replacement from its penal institutions where the recidivist tick rate is sixty percent people coming into the system going out of the system and not having been changed by the system until correction becomes no longer a punishment but rehabilitation New York City streets will not be safe for you off for me. I dream also. In the area of education. And I say that the pedagogy of the past is no longer satisfactory for the society of the present you can no longer build a New York City a school system based on educational theories that assume middle class values that assume children come with the motivation to learn the dropout rate the failure to learn to read or count by so large a percentage of our graduates of grammar school and high school demonstrates that we are not now effectively meeting the problem we have got to learn how to reach out to the youngster who has never learned to aspire to the role of student of pupil we can't assume that the youngster coming from a culturally deprived neighborhood is going to be motivated to want to learn to read We've got to explore new devices for building into those children the desire to read to write to count to go through high school and finally to be graduated from one level or another of our fine city universities this is ladies and gentlemen perhaps the most important dream that we must dream and it's the most important work that we must do if we are going to build for the future as well as to be concerned with the present there are other dreams that we can have I look forward to the day when federal state and city combine their results is to make New York City's air safe to breeze the city council has taken a long step forward to inhibit. The pollution created within the city itself but this is not a dream that we can implement only within the city itself we've got to extend that dream and involve the federal government and the state government we've got to advance our scientific research we've got to take Sterna measures to control those forces that produce the pollutants we may even have to dream about producing electric power up by atomic energy someplace close to New York City so that Con Edison will not belch forth pollutants that fall our air. We have to dream also about how it can be possible to go through future some is without worrying about whether or not our water supplies will run out the mayor at the moment is carefully considering whether or not a step in this direction might not be universal water metering it can be pointed out that past experience indicates that you can increase the supply of water by twenty percent by engaging in universal water metering because this is what metering has saved in other cities we've got to concern ourselves with developing on a national on a statewide level a water supply that goes well ahead of the next ten years I hope not at too much length I hope briefly I have been able to share with you some dreams that we have in common we in the Lindsay administration have in common with you. It's important that we not speak of them only as dreams I think we've got to take them out of the land of fantasy and make them real I think this can be done only to the extent to which we have an alerted citizenry an informed citizenry. A dedicated citizenry who are willing to keep us in the PA in the city administration active continuously fighting to make these dreams real so that New Yawk within the next ten years can truly be the proud city that all of us wanted to be thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Thank you Dr Costello if we can sum up the views of our three speakers the New York the next ten years it would seem to me that it's one of cautious optimism. Our next speaker is also our host today. Is. Just a wish talent. Who reaps the benefit of all these wonderful exhibits. Off a smile back the president of the Coliseum exhibition Corp. It's the most. Like you part. Thank you. I'd like to read the inscription. To Robert Moses Chamakh of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel of the. Master Builder in appreciation obvious vision at coverage of building the New York Coliseum and the City of New York with one of its prime at. Her from. Our friends. In my college days there was a famous comedian called Francis Wilson made a great hit a show about Napoleon called a little call. It should be revived. Well since signing on the kid that built the pyramid on the chorus responded Well the hell it did. There are always X. post facto heroes were shot out of a built a parable there was there is always informal inst. Infernal bickering for predator. For recognition of the ancestor Oh progenitor of a no no idea which others of import added the fame of success is a short personal glory where dozens should share it both builders and operators of a coliseum are indispensable I admire the exhibits of the coliseum they way they are installed of ballyhooed how each battered caravansary abides its just and our disappears on the roust about fold their tents like the Arabs the silently steal away. Only wish we could dismantle the World's Fair Flushing Meadow smoothly and easily. So the new Madison Square Garden will open I see no competition with the coliseum and no conflict of interest in this firm a burgeoning of the West so. This is a great time. Now Wolf Arizona we need more homes to house Olympic shows spectacles on the surfaces of old and smooth ways of reaching them the critics yap fume gas and snap before he leaves of the doors you're a colon yarn about the splendid little fleet carriage in the circus the fleas jumped in all directions but somehow the carriage moved forward let us stick to gala for we are all in a sense conspirators for recreation fast coliseums performing on its paws pockets are spacious and above all daylight saving unable Manda thumb his nose at nature cultivate leisure engage in healthy exercise. Avoid deviled free fight boredom which has become the largest cost so early in the bonds. So will I thank you who are our tenets last season papers on behalf of my mood chart shows. And cha cha as to I guess that's what I had the boys and girls who built this pyramid look up their fun and rewarding the building and asked nothing but the privilege of further service to New York which With own its faults limitations and problems we love we moved logically northward from Columbus Circle up to Lincoln Square Lincoln Square was no easier to overcall and Columbus Circle the Washington housing administrator insisted that we first acquire unlevel slums and then decide what to do with the cleared land an impossible formula in a city like knowing it was a big area consisting of much more of the center of the performing office we had at the feet a nasty cover drive against Fordham based on a charge of the Federal right down to the last and was for a religious institution. Others do not like Bill second off solving but had nothing about all of Lincoln Square or wherever it looks today was no pushover at the time let me emphasize two major decisive factors of the assembling of these big clubs on the financing of slum clearance and subsequent improvements the first consideration is the exercise of the power of eminent domain for a further purpose and second the right down at initial cost without which these schemes would be just so much waste paper. The total federal state city aid in the form of write down of costs for the entire Lincoln Square project was in round figures forty six million five hundred thousand dollars two thirds federal and one third local at the case of Columbus Circle the figure was nine million dollars similarly shared. We told our West Side Story and we have told our side story on our recent turn Europol a task was to build an entirely new. Mopping up between the circle and the square pushing west toward the river and the north to redeem a once respectable neighborhood which has become a reproach to our city these things are done in stages not by one gram slab the Pynoos players the way others follow given the example and incentives private capital will fill up these gaps between public enterprises and provide tax revenues to. Somehow we find the Out of prize friends support to rebuild logic parts of the city progresses exasperatingly slow slow and there are many adversaries but there is a certain inevitability about cooperation residual goodwill or our salvation again facts while the confetti among the brickbats East Side West Side all around the town the tune is the same we continue to dance the light fantastic on the sidewalks of. Have.