Reminiscences of Daniel L. Greenberg : oral history, 2002.

Biographical Note

Attorney in Chief, Legal Aid Society.

Scope and Contents

Born in Brooklyn, NY, raised in Brooklyn; education: Brooklyn College, Columbia Law School--influence of 1968 political atmosphere; career: Harlem elementary school teacher in 1969 as alternative to military service, legal services lawyer in Lower East Side of Manhattan from 1971 to 1987, director of clinical programs at Harvard Law School in 1987, attorney-in-chief for Legal Aid Society in New York City in 1994; Legal Aid Society: civil legal services throughout New York City, headquarters fifty yards from World Trade Center; post-9/11 Legal Aid Society: disaster recovery plan, minimal damage to headquarters at 90 Church Street--part of WPA [Works Progress Administration] project, office of over 450 employees inoperable and drastic increase in people eligible for services, building closed--pollutants, refusing District Attorney and administrative judges' recommendation to shut down, arraignments in Midtown court, bureaucratic exceptions, private and foundation donations, cost efficiency, transforming role of legal aid, new appreciation for lawyers; New York City: new focus of law enforcement, effects not covered by media, negative effects on undocumented worker; immigrants, cab drivers, hotel workers, and garment workers, economic devastation, attitudes toward poor, public transportation, attitudes toward New York City, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, leadership; government services: emergency Medicaid and food stamps, easier access to FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency], Pier 94, Safe Horizon, Red Cross--instant access, easier access, lack of continuity, cutbacks and program shutdown, not fulfilling potential, city budget, September 11th Fund; civil liberties: infingement of, claims that Legal Aid Society representing terrorists, guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" television show, defending Legal Aid Society; emotional reactions.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Columbia University--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews.
• Greenberg, Daniel L., 1945---Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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