{"value"=>"<p>This subseries contains documentation of the history, funding, strategizing and other operating details of the Straphangers Campaign. It contains correspondence, memos, clippings, direct mailings, grant applications, publicity material, posters and reports by the Campaign, the MTA and other entities. The largest sections of the series document the Campaign's work with other organizations, its fundraising activity, and its strategy and planning.</p> <p>The Campaign has often worked with other transportation, environmental and citizen advocacy groups, and since the late 1990s much of the Campaign's work has been carried out in cooperation with them. Advocacy groups documented in this series include the Committee For Better Transit, Inc. (an ally of the Campaign from the beginning), the Empire State Transit Alliance, the Regional Planning Association and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.</p> <p>The Campaign has mainly operated by raising foundation money, usually allocated for specific projects. Grant applications and correspondence with funders often reveal much about how the Campaign planned its activities and allocated its funding. This series therefore acts as a supplemental source of information for much of the projects documented in other series. Major supporters documented in this series include the Charles H. Revson Foundation, which funded direct mailings, among other projects; the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, which funded the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Watch Grant; and the J.M. Kaplan Fund, which funded the BusWatch campaign as well as West Side development battles. Funders for NYPIRG non-Straphangers related projects are also documented in this series. These include the Fund For The City Of New York, which supported the CityWatch and CouncilWatch projects; and the New York Foundation, which funded CityWatch. Paperwork related to the direct mail campaigns undertaken by the Campaign in the 1980s and early 1990s can be found under the funding agencies as well as under a separate heading of Direct Mail Projects.</p> <p>The Straphangers Campaign staff regularly discussed its present and future strategy in internal memos and meeting notes. Documentation of these discussions is present from 1981 to 2004.</p> <p>Much of the Straphangers Campaign Records as a whole were created by Staff Attorney Gene Russianoff. This subseries contains correspondence to and from Russianoff regarding his personal activities related to transportation issues, as opposed to activities of the Campaign. They nevertheless shed much light on the history and workings of the Campaign. These papers include a speech he delivered about Robert Moses; deposition he gave in a 2005 New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit regarding bag searches in the subway, which outlines some of the structure of the Straphangers Campaign and NYPIRG; a folder of \"enemy memos\" (correspondence from organizations opposed to the goals of the Straphangers Campaign); resumes, and a photograph and ink sketch of Russianoff.</p> <p>Other elements in this suberies include the history of the Campaign (see clippings in box 40, folder 8, the 2004 Municipal Arts Society exhibit catalog in box 46, folder 7 and the slideshow notes in box 47, folder 10, and electronic records, filed under History some created on the occasion of the Campaign's 25th anniversary in 2004); information on Campaign employees and interns; a large set of citizen complaint letters, mainly from the 1990s and early 2000s (see Series III and IV for complaint letters from earlier years); correspondence with the Koch, Dinkins and Pataki administrations; publicity materials including stickers and a 2004 radio interview with a Campaign member; a set of State Senate district profiles similar to those in Series III; consulting done by the Campaign for transit activists in other cities; and correspondence and posters related to the development and launching of the Campaign's website in 2000, as well as the website it created in tandem with the Regional Plan Association. The folder documenting general consulting work done by the Campaign for transit activists in other cities contains a 1987 speech delivered by Gene Russianoff in which he discusses the early history of the Straphangers Campaign.</p> <p>More internal Campaign memos, correspondence and strategy papers can be found in box 11, folders 8-14 and box 16, folders 18-21.</p>"}