Oral history interview with Susan Cole, 1986

Biographical Note

Associate Director, Settlement Housing Fund

Scope and Contents

Background: Childhood in California; Education: University of California, M.S. Columbia; Career: Peace Corps, City College, Settlement Housing Fund, involvement with Manhattan Plaza, Section 8 Subsidies, tenanting of the buildings, economic and ethnic integration, Manhattan Plaza Performing Arts Committee, creation and enforcement of tenanting policies, discrimination suits, definition of performing artist, organization of management, role of Rodney Kirk in Manhattan Plaza’s operation, job as a consultant for Manhattan Plaza, Clinton community, reflections on tenant turnover, success of Manhattan Plaza

Subjects

• Cole, Susan--Interviews.
• High-rise apartment buildings--New York (State)--New York.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Zane, Sharon, interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Manhattan Plaza, 1986