Manhattan B.P. Scott Stringer to Discuss Community Board Reform and Other Initiatives at New York Law School on February 24

NEW YORK, February 17, 2006—Newly elected Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer will be the featured speaker at the Center for New York City Law’s CityLaw Breakfast on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 8:15 a.m. Stringer will be discussing several highlights of his agenda for the borough, including his plan for reforming community boards. The borough president seeks to make community boards more effective by establishing new standards and processes for recruiting and evaluating new members. Stringer, who appoints all 600 members of Manhattan’s community boards, is also taking steps to implement greater accountability and oversight of board leadership.

Stringer will also touch on other priorities of his office, such as monitoring ongoing development projects in the borough including Ground Zero, promoting affordable housing, and working to ensure adequate funding for public education.

Stringer, a native of Washington Heights, first entered public service at age 17 when he was appointed to his local community board. He served six terms in the New York State Assembly, during which he authored legislation to protect victims of domestic violence by requiring police officers to serve orders of protection on their behalf; fought against the repeal of the commuter tax; and, as chair of the Assembly’s Real Property Taxation Committee, passed laws to protect New York taxpayers in the wake of the $1 billion tax assessor scandal.

Stringer’s talk will be followed by an open-mike Q&A session.

The event is presented by the Center for New York City Law in the Stiefel Reading Room at New York Law School, 47 Worth Street (between Church Street and West Broadway). Media coverage is invited.

This open forum is part of the Center for New York City Law’s Breakfast Series. The event is open to the public at no charge, but reservations are appreciated. For registration and information, contact the Center for New York City Law at 212.431.2115, fax: 212.941.4735, e-mail: nycitylaw@nyls.edu, or visit www.citylaw.org.

About the Center for New York City Law:

Founded in 1993, the Center for New York City Law works to make the city’s government and decisions more fair, comprehensible, and open to the public. The academic and public mission of the Center is to provide information about, and analysis of, the laws and legal processes that govern New York City. To that end, the Center publishes CityLaw, a bimonthly journal reporting New York City legal and administrative decisions; CityLand, a monthly land-use publication; and CityRegs, a biweekly newsletter on new and proposed city regulations. The Center’s Web site, www.citylaw.org, provides an open window on city government, making over 26,000 city administrative decisions from 15 agencies available free of charge in a searchable, comprehensive online database. The Center’s director, Professor Ross Sandler, is former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation.