Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

This series contains files pertaining to planning decisions in Schenectady County, New York. The majority of the documents involve planning issues within the City of Schenectady, although there are also numerous documents pertaining to the towns of Niskayuna, Glenville, and Rotterdam, as well as several for the Village of Scotia. Of particular note are a series of master/comprehensive plans for the City of Schenectady published in the 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s. This series also contains a variety of sub-area plans for downtown and neighborhood development. Other common file types include: economic analyses (at the municipal and county level), water supply/treatment documents (e.g., aquifer/groundwater and wastewater facilities), housing plans, and recreational facility profiles.

This series is divided up into eight subseries that document various prominent issues addressed by NYCAP in its work, particularly that used in its information clearinghouse and in programs it conducted. Subseries 4: Activist Organizations and Coalitions is a collection of materials from groups involved in promoting pesticide alternatives like NYCAP, or with other environmental issues generally. The series includes articles, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and notes. The majority of the material was not produced by NYCAP, although it generally either part of a campaign they were working on, or information they distributed.

This series consists of official PEF publications, as well as publications produced by other entities collected by PEF.

This series includes periodicals and single reports issued by both the Atlantic Chapter and the national Sierra Club. Periodicals put out by the Atlantic Chapter include The Argonaut (1970-1972 included here), Atlantic Chapter News Report (1986-1988, 1990), and Sierra Atlantic (1977-1982, 1984-1992, 1996). The Sierra Atlantic newsletters from Spring 2003 to the present are available online at http://newyork.sierraclub.org/Sierra%20Atlantic/index.htm.

This series contains materials on consent Decree compliance generated by state developmental centers. Many folders in Subseries 1 and four within Subseries 2 are restricted because they contain lists of Willowbrook clients and/or information about clients' medical conditions. These restricted folders are noted below in the box and folder list.

This series contains articles written by Tanya Melich as well as her master's thesis, "Youth Politics: A Study of Cliques Within the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs, 1932-1959." There are copies of speeches she gave on various occasions. There is also information relating to Melich's editing work on an autobiography for Thomas E. Dewey. The materials relating to Dewey include two chapters of his autobiography, the transcript of a lengthy interview he conducted with reporter Harlan B. Phillips in 1957, some background research on Dewey conducted by Phillips, and chronologies.

This series contains records relating to Moore's service on a wide variety of conferences, commissions and committees. It is broken up into subseries by committee.

The National Housing Issues series focuses on renters' issues from a national perspective. Much of the materials come from the National Alliance of HUD Tenants as well as the Low Income Housing Information Service.

News clippings appear throughout the collection in files relating to specific topics, particularly in Series 1, Series 2, and Series 4. This series consists of news clippings that were not organized by subject. Most were collected by PEF's central office for distribution within PEF, but some (particularly in later years) were collected by PEF/ENCON. In many cases, the letterhead onto which the clippings were photocopied indicate whether the clipping came from the central office or the ENCON division.