[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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                      JACQULINE DENISE DAVIS COURT

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                          HON. JOSE E. SERRANO

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 19, 1994

  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in celebration of the grand opening 
last Tuesday, July 12, of the Jacquline Denise Davis Court moderate 
rehabilitation housing project in the south Bronx.
  As my colleagues surely know, my south Bronx community has long been 
a national symbol of urban decline and degradation. Presidential tours 
of the ruins have come and gone, as have Presidential promises of 
concerted Federal efforts to revitalize this region.
  Mr. Speaker, in recent years, my community has made great strides in 
rejuvenating itself, and I am pleased to share with my colleagues one 
of the most dramatic and promising of these efforts.
  Led by my former New York State Assembly colleagues, the Honorable 
Gloria Davis, whose work on this project was inspired by her late 
daughter, Jacquline Denise Davis, a remarkable public/private 
partnership comprised of the New York City Department of Housing 
Preservation and Development, the Enterprise Foundation, the Morrisania 
Revitalization Corp., Inc., and a number of corporate investors, has 
together transformed an abandoned eyesore at 576 East 168th Street into 
a unique and beautiful center for low-income housing and community 
pride.
  Jacquline Denise Davis Court consists of 68 one-, two-, and three-
bedroom apartments for low-income and homeless families, a unit which 
houses the Southeast Bronx Neighborhood Center, and another unit which 
serves as the home of the New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Resource and Activity Center.
  The Southeast Bronx Neighborhood Center offers job training and other 
services for area youth, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Resource and 
Activity Center features civil rights exhibits and state-of-the-art 
interactive displays on the history of the civil rights movement. 
Jacquline Denise Davis Court also maintains a tenant service 
coordinator to refer tenants to community services and facilitate 
tenant education and involvement activities.
  Mr. Speaker, in so many ways Jacquline Denise Davis Court will in the 
years to come serve as a powerful force for personal and community 
rehabilitation in the south Bronx. I ask my colleagues to join me in 
applauding Assemblywoman Gloria Davis and all who participated in the 
realization of this stunning landmark.

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