Acting on affidavits submitted by the Anti-Defamations League of B’nai B’rith on behalf of two individuals, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz filed a complaint with the State Commission Against Discrimination, against Northgate Apartments, Inc., a housing cooperative in Bronxville, N. Y., charging violation of the State’s anti-discrimination housing law.
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee have, through a joint committee, long sought elimination of Bronxville discriminatory practices. In testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights at a hearing in the city in February 1959, the American Jewish Committee asserted that “brokers and agents participate in a conspiracy of complete exclusion of would-be Jewish purchasers of homes in Bronxville.” The AJC added that this “has been the established policy in this community for at least the past four decades.”
Thirty-nine civil rights, religions, labor and civic organizations in New York State sent a joint appeal today to Governor Rockefeller, seeking his support for pending legislation which would strengthen the state’s present law banning racial and religious discrimination in certain commercial and housing sales or rentals. The new measure now pending in the Legislature would ban racial and religious discriminations in all private housing accommodations in the State, except in the rental of an owner-occupied two-family house and the rental of rooms in an owner-occupied apartment.
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