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Harlem Race is a Test for Council’s Newest Incumbent

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  • Julius Tajiddin
    Posted August 24, 2017 at 3:35 pm

    A lot is left out about Julius Tajiddin. I ran for City Council in 2009 in District 7.

    Holland challenged me to be on the ballot through a ghost citizen objector and initially prevailed. I went to court and won my right to remain on the ballot. His lawyer and the BOE called my lawyer to tell them they weren’t going to show up because they felt they would not win. That cost me $5400.

    Also I co-founded Harlem4Obama; orchestrated Barack Obama’s historic visit to the Apollo in 2007; co-created the city-wide Neighborhood Coordinating Officers Community Policing Program which has resulted in a great reduction in stop and frisk stops; led the fight that stopped the DOE from closing the Wadleigh School and FDA 2’s middle schools down, as I was the Chair of FDA2’s SLT at that time and the Co-chair of the campus SLT; helped ACS form a community partnership known as the Community Representative Program, where community representatives sit in on child safety conferences – this has resulted in a reduction of unfair child removals;

    Negotiated with DHCR officials in 2008 to change an unconstitutional Preferential Rent Policy that had caused 17,000 people from being self evicted in West and Central Harlem, which resulted in saving over 30,000 Rent Stabilized apartments between 2008-2012; forced NYCHA to scrap an unjust Section 8 program that would have caused 24,000 residents to lose their apartments. In fact, not only do I oppose NYCHA’s Next Generation I am spearheading the challenge to it. The counter proposal is called NYCHA’s Legacy for the Future Manifesto, which was chiefly drafted by me. I am a key player in Community Board 10’s NYCHA Task Force subcommittee.

    I am not only the main supporter of Harlem’s Street Vendors, I have successfully organized them. We now have about 40 members enrolled in the Harlem Street Merchants Association.

    Citi Bike (Bike Share) Stations will not be on 125th Street (at least in CB 10) nor on any street because of me. By this not happening Vending spaces and our precious free parking spaces have been preserved. This was all in the news too.

    I led the fight to stop the City from reconfiguring Harlem’s historic [7th Avenue] also. See the Daily News story and AM News, “Harlem Street Fighter.” written by the late Michael Feeney.

    I was also honored this year by Community Board 10. I received the Outstanding Citizen Achievement Award for the month of April.

    I was a key leader in the fight against the 125th Street Rezoning and Columbia Expansion Plan. The vision of Sky Scrapers, mainly Luxury Housing, on 125th Street has been derailed by mechanisms that were placed into the Zoning that were largely drafted by me. I wrote major components to the Community Benefits Agreement between Columbia and West Harlem Development Corporation, the local body that negotiates and operates on behalf of Manhattanville Residents.

    Charter School co-locations in Central Harlem slowed down as a result of my work.

    There is a record of 16 years of productive and successful activism by me and all you can mention is a two-liner? You talk more about Johnny Come Latelies and discount – by your omissions – all the work that I put in to the Harlem Community. And this is why Trump calls it Fake news.

    I dare anyone to challenge me on anything I said where the discussion is about my track record and I will crucify them.

    Yes, I am a little dismayed to say the least.

    • Mike
      Posted August 30, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      You should be thanking them for leaving out a lot of your bio- especially your shameful opposition to life saving 7th avenue safety fixes, not to mention CitiBike. The vast majority of people in Harlem DO NOT drive- affordable transit options for residents (including discounted rates for NYCHA residents) are much more important than ‘precious’ free parking spots for you and the Harlem elite.

      • Names
        Posted April 30, 2018 at 12:27 pm

        Ditto, just looked him up and… troubling.

  • Gregory Baggett
    Posted August 25, 2017 at 9:22 am

    Here, here Julius. There was a stench of favoritism in the story.

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