I.D. Robbins

de I. D. Robbins, Ed Edwin, New York Times Oral History Program

Civic worker. Topics include: New York (N.Y.) political system, politicians, media, from the 1930s to the 1970s; 1952-, association with City Club of New York, president (1959), founding editor of City Club Comments; effect of Mitchell-Lama Act on establishment of Big Six Towers apartments and Hunts Point Cooperative Market; essays, opinions published in Daily News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times; mayoralty nomination effort and withdrawal, 1965; impressions of John Lindsay, Robert Moses, Robert Wagner, other New York City leaders.