Browse Items (25 total)

  • Collection: Gelvin Stevenson papers on Arson and Housing Abandonment

ms-stevenson-b1-f3-bronx-county-archives.pdf
Folder containing newsletters, fliers, and other paper memorabilia from the Committee Against Fort Apache, a Bronx-based organization that sought first to prevent the filming of Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) and then to boycott the film after it was…

4.1-18-congressional-record-testimony.pdf
Folder containing material from consultation by Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman with Gelvin Stevenson, including Stevenson's testimony and the published Congressional Record, for an amendment to the National Housing Act regulating certain housing…

5-housing-abandonment-nyc.pdf
Housing Abandonment in New York City, a report prepared by HOMEFRONT, Citywide Action Group Against Neighborhood Destruction and for Low-Rent Housing

6.1-9-insurance-research-general.pdf
Folder containing research conducted by Gelvin Stevenson on housing insurance, both generally and specifically in urban areas like The Bronx

7.1-5-insurance-research-accounting-investment-profits.pdf
Folder containing research conducted by Gelvin Stevenson on the accounting methods used and the investments and profits made in the housing insurance industry.

MSSTEVENSON-001.008.pdf
Folder containing research conducted by Gelvin Stevenson on arson and how it relates to practices of the housing insurance industry in a place like the South Bronx.

10.1-3-redlining.pdf
Folder containing research conducted by Gelvin Stevenson on the practice of redlining in the housing insurance industry in a place like the South Bronx.

MSSTEVENSON-001.011.pdf
Folder containing research conducted by Gelvin Stevenson on the regulation of the housing insurance industry in a place like the South Bronx.

12.1-3-magnuson-writings.pdf
Folder containing research drafts of writings by Robert Magnuson on the deteriorating effects of the de-stabilization of rent control on housing stock in the South Bronx.

14.1-new-citi-plan.pdf
The New Citi Plan*: A Neighborhood-based Initiative for Community Renewal and Empowerment

15.1-3-new-york-urban-coalition.pdf
Folder containing materials from the New York Urban Coalition, of which Gelvin Stevenson was a part.

16.1-3-growing-up-in-fifties.pdf
Folder containing copies of Dr. Clara Rodríguez, "Growing Up in the Forties and Fifties," published in the exhibit proceedings for Devastation/Resurrection, produced by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1980. Dr. Rodríguez is married to the creator of…

MSSTEVENSON.001.017.pdf
Folder containing research material compiled by Gelvin Stevenson on the background of Roosevelt Gardens apartment complex, located at 1455–1499 Grand Concourse in The Bronx.

18.1-34-roosevelt-gardens-correspondence.pdf
Folder containing correspondence about Gelvin Stevenson's research and article on the Roosevelt Gardens apartment complex, located at 1455–1499 Grand Concourse in The Bronx.

MSSTEVENSON-001.020.pdf
Folder containing research articles compiled by Gelvin Stevenson on the Roosevelt Gardens apartment complex, located at 1455–1499 Grand Concourse in The Bronx.

MSSTEVENSON-001.021.pdf
Folder containing research notes and notebooks compiled by Gelvin Stevenson on the Roosevelt Gardens apartment complex, located at 1455–1499 Grand Concourse in The Bronx.

22.2-10-roosevelt-gardens-aftermath.pdf
Folder containing research material compiled by Gelvin Stevenson on the aftermath of the near destruction during the 1970s of the Roosevelt Gardens apartment complex, located at 1455–1499 Grand Concourse in The Bronx.

MSSTEVENSON.001.023.pdf
Folder containing drafts and published version of article written by Gelvin Stevenson on arson-for-profit, published in the New York Times on September 11, 1977.

24.1-and-24.3-7-stevenson-fair-article.pdf
Folder containing drafts and published version of article written by Gelvin Stevenson on the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Act, published in the New York Times on April 24, 1977

MSSTEVENSON.001.025.pdf
Folder containing drafts and research for an unpublished article by Gelvin Stevenson with a working title of "Ghetto Economies."
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