b"like we get it in Brooklyn. I would have to make arrangements to deal with this agency, South Jamaica Water, to get thewater turned on. At times, I had to go and bring certain keys and deal with Con Edison and the gas company. I used to assist the person that was in charge of the program, because I was only an assistant superintendent at that time. We usedto have these contracts for this work to be done, to get contractors to bid on it. There were certain regulations where if it'sover, say, a thousand dollars or so, you needed three bidders you awarded to the person with the lowest bid. Did you go someplace else after that? Yeah, after two years, because I was on loan to this program. I didn't know where my pay was coming from. Was itfrom the federal government or from the Housing Authority? But they welcomed my help and all and we did very wellwhile I was there. But the time was over, andI had to go to a regular project to perform the regular duties of a typical NewYork City Housing Authority assistant superintendent; working in a project in charge of the maintenance, the janitorial.And where was that?That was Gowanus Houses in Brooklyn. I was there for several years. And then I transferred to Farragut Houses, whichis by the Navy Yard, I went back as an assistant superintendent this time around. Worked there for a couple of years, then I was able to go back to FHA-acquired homes, Baisley Park Houses, because I was a regular assistant superintendent. I worked for FHA-acquired homes. Now I worked with this gentleman, he's passed away, great fellow, Joe Joe Rotundo[sp?] I was his assistant and we ran Baisley Park Houses, but we also had four other satellite locations. We would havepeople traveling, working there, but the main place was in the Baisley Park Houses in Queens. I used my car to go [to] a lot of special assignments. It wasn't the usual work. I had done the regular work in Farragut Houses and Gowanus. This was a special assignment and it was kind of a rewarding in a way. You could make a difference in a lot of thesehouses. I went back to FHA-acquired homes. But now, I was working with Joe Rotundo [sp?] in Baisley Park Houses, plusfour other satellites. Conlon-L.I.H.F.E. [John P. Conlon L.I.H.F.E. (Low Income Housing for The Elderly) Towers] was one ofthem I can't remember the others.The names of the satellites are not important, just trying to get the arc of your employment. Around what yearwas this? I had gone to all the study and now I'm an assistant superintendent I took a test for superintendent and I was on thelist. Oh gee, it must have been, wow, 19the dates escape me, but maybe I could go backwards. I believe I said in [paperdocument he gave interviewer]] there that I retired in November of '96. So those last three years, I worked in the field survey unit. I went to different projects and evaluated kitchen cabinets, wrought iron fences, different things. We give amarking from one to three. I would have meetings with the tenant association, the management there and I would writememos to make recommendations to the people that read these reports. As a result, a lot of what I suggested, what I recommended, was taken and years later, they got wrought iron fences.But you did see some of your recommendations implemented? Yes, and it's kind of rewarding because I felt like I made a difference. 82 "