b"and the lines dispersed, people started walking all different directions. Then an old lady stuck her head out the door andshe said: That's no policia, that's Mr. Kane. [Laughs]. And they said: Oohhh. And they all got back in line. They were inline for the numbers man. He was taking numbers on the second floor. [Laughs].And I walked past them and I walked upthe stairs, said hello to the numbers guy [laughs] and kept going. They knew who you were. There was no reason to feeluncomfortable.There are a million stories, I could write a book. You know general rule working as a housing assistant. If you got to go out to the buildings to check on rent that's due, don't go after three. And people will say: Oh because thekids are out of school? No. Because mama's cooking dinner [laughs] and you walk in those buildings and, it's just, awyou get so hungry.[Laughs] I'm telling you, really. You walk in and you're like: Oh God, and now it takes you an hour toget home and I'm starving.Did anyone ever feed you?They did when you were housing assistant, especially the seniors. They'd wait for you. They they'd look out the doorto see if you're coming. You'd schedule 10 apartments, maybe 15 minutes apart and take a little longer in one some-times. But as you're coming out of one, they're sticking their heads out the door to see where you are. Well, they're oldand they're lonely. You walk in and people had cookies prepared. I managed senior buildings. They had a big lunch everyday. Sometimes they had a big lunch with celebrities and they'd bring local politicians.I was always one of the guests ofhonor. You went over there and they treated you like royalty. You sat at the main table and they waited on you. It wasgreat being a manager, really was.These were senior buildings? There are buildings the Housing Authority designated for seniors senior citizens only. There are plenty of them,I had one on 117th Street, I can't remember the name of it but the others were just part of the development. Mitchellhad one, Jefferson had one when I was there. I also opened up Union Avenue in the Bronx. It's called Union Avenue Consolidated. They were small developments of 150 apartments, 100 apartments, 125 apartments and they were scat-tered. They had no connection with each other. HUD started putting money into low rises. They had to be managed. My first manager's job was doing that. Some of them weren't even built yet, they were being built. So, I had to go in and watch them going up and accept the buildings when they were ready, as part of a team. You went in there and you inspected stuff. We went with electricians, Housing people would check the electric, check the stove, check the lighting,all kinds of things. So, I did that for three years. It was great because you learned, you hung out with construction people,you learned this, that, and the other. It was something no other managers were doing at the time. They had set developments that they were running. I was out creating a development and I wound up with seven locations, scatteredall through the South Bronx and it was interesting. I was under three different police precincts, two or three different electoral areas. One guy came one night and gave a speech to my seniors and I had to inform him that that wasn't his district [laughs]. It was fun. And at that time, I didn't even answer to the borough director. I answered to downtown. It was new construction going up and they wanted to work out the problems and everything else. It was quite interesting.101 "