Showing posts with label robert weisberger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robert weisberger. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Debate Over The El 1950


Looks like our Councilman Robert Weisberger, who also lived in KV came down on the correct side of this issue which pitted the upper class that enjoyed the convenience of traveling to Wall Street against the working classes that had the noisy and dirty trains cutting through their neighborhood.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Councilman Robert Weisberger On The Job

Two articles: The first two pages deal with a protest to install a traffic light on Ave. D in 1953, and the second in 1954, about the renaming of a block near 17th Street in honor of Nathan Perlman
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