Baruch Vladeck (Lower East Side Projects)

Baruch Charney Vladeck (Yiddish: ברוך טשאַרני וולאַדעק; born Baruch Nachman Charney;[b] January 13, 1886 – October 30, 1938) was a Belarusian-born Jewish American labor leader, journalist and politician who was general manager of The Jewish Daily Forward from 1918 until his death in 1938. He was a member of the New York City Board of Aldermen and later the New York City Council, serving as the first majority leader of that body from January to September 1938. He was also a co-founder of the American Labor Party, serving as its leader on the City Council during his tenure. Today the Vladeck Houses in Manhattan's Lower East Side, completed by the NYCHA in 1940, bear his name, as does nearby "Vladeck Park". The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Bronx contains a lecture hall named Vladeck Hall. Vladeck's papers are housed at Tamiment Library at New York University. Vladeck Housing Projects is considered one of the worst of its kind in New York.