Diane Patrick

I grew up in like a Mitchell Llama.

You know about Mitchell Llama?

Oh, yeah, the restaurant stars or whatever?

No, no, no, no, no.

Oh, that damn Mitchell Llama, brother.

Contrary to the false impression that this type of redevelopment destroys existing neighborhoods, we are proud to say that developments like this remove from the city a cancerous blight, the breeding ground of crime and delinquency and all other social ills.

I believe that when the dust falls,

of the housing battles is settled, this cooperative nonprofit village will go down in history as one of the very best.

You're never going to get unanimous approval.

There must be people who are discommoded, inconvenienced, or call it what you will, on the old theory that you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

People were sort of washing the floors and the halls of their own building and the public halls of their own buildings.

You know, I think my mother chipped in, pitched in to help mop the public hall floors.

It kind of forced you to get to know your neighbors as well.

I think I've got a picture of my mother sitting in a meeting with other wives or people from the floor.

We moved in in 1981.

So they've been there 40, what is it now?

81, so it's 45 years.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, there's somewhere between a tenant and an owner, you know, but I think the right word is like investment, you know, not just financial, but like a investment in a stake in a community that a typical New York tenant did not have.

I don't want my parents to go anywhere.