Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Henry J. Stern chronological correspondence for 1994 to 2001
Description
Henry J. Stern served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation during the Koch Administration, 1983-1990. He was reappointed to this position by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1994 and served as Commissioner until the end of the Giuliani Administration in February 2002. The accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, and some attachments. The in-office name of the material was "Date Files." The correspondence is with public officials, agency heads, public and private groups with park and related concerns, and constituents. The arrangement is unusual for chronological correspondence; approximately ten day blocks of correspondence (for example for the 1st to the 10th of a month) taken over several successive months are divided by single days in a folder. All the correspondence for a given day of the month would be in a folder for a three to six month period. The blocks of correspondence are arranged chronologically in succession for the first ten days of a month in one box, the next ten days in a second box, and the last ten days in a third box, with the three boxes together covering the three to six month period. See the inventory prepared for the accession. There are some variations in this arrangement for a few boxes and there are periodic gaps.
Extent
55 cubic feet
Dates
1994-2001
Record Groups
Names
External Documents
Source
- New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation (Organization)
Creator
- New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation (Organization)
- Stern, Henry J. (Henry Jordan) (Person)
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