Oral history interview with Roger Starr, 1986

Biographical Note

Occupation

Scope and Contents

Education: Lawrenceville School, Yale 1939; experience in army; career: Citizens Housing and Planning Council, Professorship, commissioner of Housing and Development Administration; public housing in Manhattan, Municipal Loan scandal, construction and financing of Manhattan Plaza, Section 8, objections to the project, contracting issues, marketing and populating Manhattan Plaza, reflection on the present

Subjects

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

Access Conditions

Copyright by Manhattan Plaza, 1986