Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Henry J. Stern press releases for 1983

Accession ACC-2007-078. Unprocessed - RG 041. Department of Parks and Recreation

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 press releases memoranda, notes, printed material, and a few photographs. The press releases were issued primarily to announce Department of Parks and Recreation events to the public, some involving the Commissioner's participation, as well as to give information about various Parks operations and programs, particularly involving recreation. The memoranda, printed material, and related material are attachments to the press releases that provide more information relating to them. There are duplicate copies of releases. The material is arranged in chronological order and was assigned a number and housed in a folder on which the subject of the event is described. There is no listing of the press releases. About one-quarter of the releases are from the end of Gordon Davis' tenure, the remainder from Henry J. Stern after his appointment in April of 1983.

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2 cubic feet

Dates

1983

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