Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association

Alvin D. Doyle, President of the Tenants Association and an active member since 1981, is a lifelong Stuyvesant Town resident.  In addition to his TA administrative responsibilities, he works with other local, city-wide and state-wide affordable housing organizations and civic groups.  The Vice President of H.M. Hughes, a construction company, he is a member of the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Community Board 6 and a member of the 13th Precinct Community Council.  He has been a Director of the Tenants Political Action Committee (Tenants PAC) since its founding in 1997.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Julie B. Ehrlich is a former market-rate/now rent-stabilized Stuyvesant Town tenant.  She is active on the Board’s Legal Committee and the Tenant Advisory Legal Committee.  Holder of a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, Julie is currently a law clerk to the Hon. Nina Gershon, a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York and was formerly a staff attorney/fellow at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project.  She has previously served on several non-profit boards and has professional experience in civil rights litigation and community organizing.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Kevin J. Farrelly is an attorney with his own practice focusing on estate and commercial matters.  He has served on the boards of the City Club of New York, the Committee for Modern Courts and the Lesbian & Gay Law Association of Greater New York.  He is a former member of Community Board 11 (Queens) and a former Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham Law School.  He is a member of Town & Village Synagogue.  Kevin graduated from Fordham Law School, Columbia University and Regis High School.  He has lived in Stuyvesant Town with his partner, Stephen Klein, since 1999. 
This candidate was selected from applicants interviewed by the Tenants Association’s Nominating Committee and is nominated by the Board.

Soni Holman Fink, chair of Communications, handles press relations and writes much of the TA material residents receive in the mail and under their doors or find posted in their buildings.  Now retired, she worked for many years as a reporter, columnist and editor for monthly business publications and Women’s Wear Daily then —after time out for child-rearing — in public relations for Macmillan, Inc. and such subsidiaries as G. Schirmer Music Publishing, Berlitz Schools, and Brentano’s Book Stores.  She has been a Peter Cooper resident since 1961. 
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Mark Grayson grew up in this community and moved back to PCV in 1991.  His mother still lives in PCV.  An attorney for many years, with emphasis on co-ops and condos, he has represented more than 200 clients buying/selling/refinancing co-ops and condos and represented a tenant group in a successful condo conversion in Manhattan. He was formerly Board President/ Director of a Manhattan co-op.  He wants to work on conversion of STPCV to a co-op or condo so tenants can purchase their apartments at a fair and affordable price while those who don’t buy can stay as rent-stabilized tenants
This candidate submitted 35 valid signatures and has been placed on the ballot.

Jennifer Kops is a lifetime resident of the community.  She is now raising her young children in Peter Cooper and they attend PS 40.  Jennifer has always been involved in community service; currently she is a Tenants Association Zone Leader and Building Leader.  Most recently you have seen her out campaigning for Councilman Garodnick and the signing of Unity Pledges.  She is always open to people’s comments and looks forward to meeting more neighbors.  Right now she is more than ever committed to helping our community to a positive new chapter.
This candidate was selected from applicants interviewed by the Tenants Association’s Nominating Committee and is nominated by the Board.

John Marsh, Vice President and Treasurer, is a lifelong resident.  A specialist in data security, he developed the Tenants Association’s Internet presence and membership database.  The lead organizer of volunteers, he structured and built the Building-Zone-Complex Leader pyramid and has put it to work in such campaigns as the current Unity drive.  He is a member of the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a Director of Tenants Political Action Committee (Tenants PAC), and represents the TA on the Real Rent Reform Campaign’s Leadership Committee. He serves on the Co-op board of the Round Lake Realty Corporation.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Judith Preble Miller has lived in Stuyvesant Town since 1975, with her husband, Edward Miller, and cares deeply about what happens to this community.  She particularly wants to see affordable housing preserved for workers and families and to see residents kept fully informed of the various options for ownership and tenancy as we go through the transition.  A practicing attorney and supervisor with The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Practice for 37 years, she has a talent for translating legal complexities into understandable terms for non-lawyers and wants to use that skill for helping ST/PCV tenants..
This candidate was selected from applicants interviewed by the Tenants Association’s Nominating Committee and is nominated by the Board.

Steven R. Newmark serves as co-chair of the TA’s Organizing Committee and has been instrumental in organizing the current Unity Pledge drive.  He also serves on the Board’s Legal Committee.  He is a litigator at the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where his caseload includes spending numerous pro bono hours defending tenants’ rights in Housing Court.  He has led organizing efforts for various local, state, and national campaigns, including Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  He received a J.D. from Fordham Law School and an M.P.A. from Columbia University. 
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Virginia Rosario, the Tenants Association’s Secretary, also served as a member of the Board in the 1980’s and 90’s and worked closely with city- and state-wide housing advocates and politicians in the struggle to make MCI increases temporary surcharges.  Now retired, she was Executive Assistant to the Former Physician-in-Chief of The Rockefeller University Hospital, Administrator of a 5 year Pew Fellowship Program and Secretary to the Institutional Review Board.  She is currently Co-Deputy Director of the Midtown East-Stuyvesant Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in CB 6 and is an AHA Instructor of CPR/AED.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

James J. Roth leads the TA’s legal committee.  He is a lifetime resident of the community.  In addition to his Tenants Association activities, he serves on the Finance Committee at Immaculate Conception Church and as a Board member of a non-profit corporation involved in civic affairs.  He retired from the FBI after a 25-year career as a Special Agent, including 13 years as the Chief Counsel for the FBI office in New York.  He is now a corporate lawyer in New York and is a member of the adjunct faculty at Fordham Law School.  He holds undergraduate, graduate and law degrees from Fordham University.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Ann Salzberg is the Tenants’ Association’s Event Planner, Lead Volunteer of the TA Telephone Message Center, and a Peter Cooper Village Zone Leader.  Ann set off a media picnic when she discovered the MetLife letter that offered employees a bounty if their exposure of forbidden cats and dogs led to the eviction of rent-stabilized tenants.  She also initiated outreach to advocates for the handicapped and city agencies that forced MetLife to retrofit the non-functioning Peter Cooper wheelchair lifts.  Ann is a consultant with a non-profit, specializing in services to the elderly.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

John Sheehy has lived with his family in PCV for over 25 years. He was an Assistant DA, Assistant Counsel to Governor Rockefeller and a partner in the law firm of Rogers & Wells, Chairman of its Litigation Department and a member of its Executive Committee.  He served for six years as Chairman of NYC Court Appointed Special Advocates, a not-for-profit providing trained volunteers to help foster children to adoption.  He was a Member of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct for 12 years, is a retired Commander in the US Navy JAG Corps and a member of the Finance Council of The Epiphany Church.
This candidate was selected from applicants interviewed by the Tenants Association’s Nominating Committee and is nominated by the Board.

Susan Steinberg, Executive Vice President of the Tenants Association and a Stuyvesant Town resident since 1980, is also a member of Community Board 6, serving as Vice Chair of the Housing, Homeless and Human Rights Committee.  She represented the TA in the community organizing effort to stop the expansion of Con Ed’s 14th Street plant, was subsequently elected President of the East River Environmental Coalition and still serves on Community Board 3’s Task Force monitoring the $2.7 million settlement won from Con Ed.  Susan is Senior Marketing Manager for a major New York architectural and planning firm. 
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Mark Suall has been a resident of PCV since 1969 and has had his own apartment in PCV for 20 years.  He is a former resident of Tudor City, which underwent a non-eviction conversion to a mix of rent regulated and privately owned apartments and supports a similar conversion for ST/PCV, believing it to be the best path to community stability and continued affordability.  He attended Seward Park High School and Columbia University’s School Of International Studies. He formerly was a managing partner in two Bar/Restaurants. 
This candidate submitted 35 valid signatures and has been placed on the ballot.

Helen Thompson, Assistant Treasurer of the Tenants Association and a 42-year Peter Cooper resident, organized her own building, then took over supervision of six other building teams during the Peter Cooper battle against keycards in 2003.  She has continued to serve as a PCV Zone Leader.  With an academic background in merchandising, she worked in the cosmetics and fashion industries in merchandising, marketing and sales promotion.  Now semi-retired, she works three days a week at Baruch College, recruiting grad students into Executive Programs.
This Candidate is a current Member of the TA Board of Directors and is nominated by the Board and by Petition

Jonathan Wells, a resident of Stuyvesant Town for more than 15 years is an active volunteer in the community and has served on the board of the United Nations International School parents
association for the past three years.  He also serves as a volunteer in ST/PCV sports leagues. Professionally, he is the Bureau Chief for an international news agency where he is responsible for news assignments, staff relations, budgets, and finance.  He wants to use his skills and experience to further strengthen the ST/PCV Tenants Association during this pivotal time.
This candidate was selected from applicants interviewed by the Tenants Association’s Nominating Committee and is nominated by the Board.

James F. Walker (Jimmy) has long been involved in tenant advocacy, striving to enable the middle class to live in this City.  His many community activities include service on the TA’s Finance/Real Estate Committee, Appalachian Mountain Club, Theater For The New City, and Vice-President St. Paul’s Church.  He is a graduate of NYU Stern school of business majoring in Banking & Finance and Management.  His professional career has been in the development of computer systems for Metropolitan Life and most recently for Morgan Stanley.
This candidate submitted 35 valid signatures and has been placed on the ballot.