, 1958-05-28

1ICA VI SOOA0S, III ANNW 1OAN ivy L h"Oo AA I1CP Oo =
years.
Imay say that we are fortunate, in that America
stands as the great beacon to all mankind paving the way
for a better life for man and woman and children every
where. And New York stands as the great example OF
people coming from ali parts Of the world. / could have
come from the West Indies, and you can come from here,
and one of my great associates in the political arena, the
Democratic Party (asc q Tammany Hall Leader like my
self Antonio Rasmus, and the name of the President of the
Senate, is a very familiar one relative to the nerscns Of TIE
same name in the political club of Antonio Rasmus who is
the Democratic Leader in the 18th Assembly and I am a
Democratic Leader in the 14th Assembly.
And have the great distinction OF having come from
my particular district Cthe first Puerto Rican Democratic
Leader, Tony Mandez) so that we are making great pro-
press and certainly New York City, where people of va
rious cultures live and work together, and particularly in
the Borough of Manhattan over which | preside, to see
the vast amount of construction going on and to see going
into that construction the imagination, vision, the know
how, the fearlessness of construction and fearlessneSs OF
new methods in construction, is indicative that nowhere
IN the face Of the earth do you have people of varied Gull
tllre working together, bending every effort to make So
ciety SO outstanding in its accomplishments in the field
Of Democracy and working toward the end OF bigotry and
the end Of Discrimination.
In our school systems we have a great prorranl,
there in the City of New York. we aDnronriatc Ov7" St0l-
100000. practically a half q billion dollars on Education
alone. Everyone has an opportunity to oct an Education.
Of course we have found out too that we have a few rough
spots in which, because CT homogeneous Set-upS IN com
munity level we may have some form of discrimination in
Education but we are bending every effort towards inte-
grafton in that area.
And so I bring you the greetings of the Borough Of
Manhattan which of course as you know is the richest
Borough on the face Of the earth. And if anyone had told
me when l passed that Statue of Liberty. that grand Lady,
that defends our shores, that someday | would have be-
come the President of the Borough of Manhattan I would
Rave thought that | was being kidded and even for the
thirteen years that | spent in the New York State Assem-
bly,, If at that time anyone told me that | would have lived
to become President Of the Borough Of Manhattan I would
not have believed them.
For there is the nerve center of the very exist
ence of the world; for there at the tin Of Manhattan We
have what is known as Wall Street the financial nerve
center Of the world and if anything happens there, as they
say, it would affect the entire world Manhattan is becom-
ing the front office Of the world with the vast office build
ings that are going up and well over Two Billion Dollars
of construction is going on in Manhattan at the present
moment alone.
The whole face Of Manhattan is being changed and
one of the great things that is happening in my Admins
tration is the transformation of 3rd Avenue from a dark