On Friday, Mendez was joined by City Council member Margaret Chin, NYCHA officials, Henry Street Settlement head David Garza and Nancy Ortiz,
tenant association president of the Vladeck Houses.
In an update to an earlier complaint cited by DNAinfo, 74 - year - old
tenant association president Jean Dorsey said 66 percent of rent - regulated residents at Stonehenge Village are 65 or older, while just 5 percent of wealthier tenants fall in that demographic.
Not only was lobby security an issue for Huff's housing complex, but she also spent her three - and - a-half years
as tenant association president lobbying for cameras, she said.
Though the cul de sac and non-through streets were initially designed to slow traffic and protect kids, Lavelle Shaw, the Alice
Griffith Tenants Association president, said that street pattern cut off residents from public transit and businesses, making it something of an island.
Stonehenge is «targeting «young and trendy» professionals while systematically hiding and excluding 2/3 of their elderly tenants,»
tenants association president Jean Dorsey, 74, wrote in legal papers filed with the New York City Human Rights Commission.
Rev. Edward Mulraine (1A)-- The Mount Vernon Democratic Nominee, Rev. Edward Mulraine has been an advocate in this district for over 30 years,
as tenant association president, elected school board member, Williamsbridge NAACP President and Pastor of Unity Baptist Tabernacle in Mount Vernon, New York (101 S 2nd Ave, Mt Vernon).
I will continue to work with my colleagues in government, alongside Ms. Norma Saunders, Mr. Ray Serrano and
all Tenants Association Presidents in my District to fight for the resources we need to help improve the quality of life for everyone here in the South Bronx.»
«We have some of our elders that won't come out of their apartments because they don't feel safe,» said Dereese Huff,
the tenant association president at Campos Plaza on East 13th Street.
«I have some buildings that have cameras and some that don't, and it absolutely deters crime,» said Aixa Torres, who is
the tenant association president of Alfred E. Smith Houses on the Lower East Side.
«It's sad to say it took a murder, but I'm glad there's better security,» said Dereese Huff, Campos Plaza's
tenant association president.
PUBLIC HOUSING CHAIR RITCHIE TORRES ENDORSES ESPAILLAT FOR CONGRESS Four NYCHA
Tenant Association Presidents Endorse Espaillat (New York, NY) Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing, four NYCHA tenant association presidents and scores of NYCHA residents gathered on the steps of -LSB-...]
Monique Johnson,
the Tenant Association President for the Throggs Neck Houses, says the reporting system is not working.
They are joined by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Carmen Quinones, who is
the Tenants Association President at the Douglass Houses on Manhattan's West Side.
Back in the Bronx, Erik Farmer,
the Tenants Association president at Forest Houses, responded to the suggestion: