Sanford Garelick, former NYC politician, police chief, 93

[danny burstein]

[NY Times]

Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City
Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil
of the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.
...
After becoming the first Jewish chief inspector in the New York Police
Department - the highest uniformed rank at the time - Mr. Garelik
became president of the City Council under Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970
and mounted an unsuccessful bid to succeed Mr. Lindsay three years later.
From 1975 to 1979, Mr. Garelik served as chief of the Transit Police
Department, also assuming the duties of director of security for the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1977.
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[BobF]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:12:23 -0500, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com>
shouted from the highest rooftop:

>[NY Times]
>
>Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City
>Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil
>of the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.
> ...
>After becoming the first Jewish chief inspector in the New York Police
>Department - the highest uniformed rank at the time - Mr. Garelik
>became president of the City Council under Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970
>and mounted an unsuccessful bid to succeed Mr. Lindsay three years later.
>From 1975 to 1979, Mr. Garelik served as chief of the Transit Police
>Department, also assuming the duties of director of security for the
>Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1977.
> -----
>rest:
>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/nyregion/sanford-garelik-former-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-dies-at-93.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&seid=auto

Rest:

“He was a Jewish cop,” said Jay Mazur, a friend who assisted with Mr.
Garelik’s mayoral campaign, “so nothing human was alien to him.”

During his tenure on the City Council, Mr. Garelik cast himself as a
voice of fiscal reason as the city began to enter a period of economic
disarray. Citing doubts about the estimated cost of renovating Yankee
Stadium in 1971, he suggested what might have qualified as heresy for
a Bronx native like him: that the Yankees join the Mets in Shea
Stadium and demolish the House That Ruth Built to make way for a
garment center.

Sanford Daniel Garelik was born on Aug. 15, 1918, to a Bronx family
with a dairy business for which he worked as a bottler in his youth.
He was a member of the Police Academy’s class of 1940 and received the
department’s Combat Cross a year later for wounding a fugitive from a
holdup while off duty in the Bronx.

Gertrude Schimmel, another member of the 1940 class, who became the
first female deputy chief of police in 1978, recalled that Mr. Garelik
once jumped out of his car to make an arrest, even after he had become
“a big chief” in the department.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly praised Mr. Garelik on Sunday for
his “keen intellect, drive and passion” for the job. “Even bigots
forgot why they had opposed his accession,” Mr. Kelly said.

As a candidate for mayor — buttons for his campaign, quickly aborted
amid flailing poll numbers, are available online for $3.95 — Mr.
Garelik presented a law-and-order platform. His hallmark slogan, Mr.
Garelik’s son recalled Sunday, was “Enough is enough.” In 1972, Mr.
Garelik proposed a monthly “Anti-Graffiti Day” to combat what he
deemed a scourge that “pollutes the eye and mind.”

In 1980, Mr. Garelik was removed from his position with the transit
police by Mayor Edward I. Koch as part of an effort to place the
transit police under the auspices of the Police Department.

“There wasn’t any reason I recall that was negative,” Mr. Koch said on
Sunday about the move. “But we were going to consolidate. You have one
police commissioner.”

After his ouster, Mr. Garelik established the Garment Center Economic
Security Council and later oversaw security for the Fashion Center
Business Improvement District until 2004.

In addition to his son, Mr. Garelik is survived by a brother, Bernard
Garelik, and four grandchildren.

Mr. Garelik’s wife of 57 years, the former Catherine Clark, died in
2007. The two met in 1947, at a hospital in East Harlem, where she
oversaw the emergency room. Mr. Garelik had arrived in plain clothes
to speak to an officer, who had been shot, as part of an
investigation. His future wife informed him that patients were not
seeing visitors. But as Mr. Garelik searched for the officer’s room
regardless, she chased him, jumping on his back. “Somebody call the
police,” she shouted.

“Lady,” he said to the woman he would ask to a Broadway show one week
later, “I am the police.”
A version of this article appeared in print on November 21, 2011, on
page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: Sanford Garelik,
93, Dies; Ran for Mayor.

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BobF <b...@surfwriter.net.not> wrote:
:
: On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:12:23 -0500, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com>

: shouted from the highest rooftop:
:
:>[NY Times]
:>
:>Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City
:>Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil
:>of the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.
:> ...
:>After becoming the first Jewish chief inspector in the New York Police
:>Department - the highest uniformed rank at the time - Mr. Garelik
:>became president of the City Council under Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970
:>and mounted an unsuccessful bid to succeed Mr. Lindsay three years later.
:>From 1975 to 1979, Mr. Garelik served as chief of the Transit Police
:>Department, also assuming the duties of director of security for the
:>Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1977.
:> -----
:>rest:
:>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/nyregion/sanford-garelik-former-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-dies-at-93.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&seid=auto
:
: Rest:

:
: ?He was a Jewish cop,? said Jay Mazur, a friend who assisted with Mr.
: Garelik?s mayoral campaign, ?so nothing human was alien to him.?
:
: During his tenure on the City Council, Mr. Garelik cast himself as a

: voice of fiscal reason as the city began to enter a period of economic
: disarray. Citing doubts about the estimated cost of renovating Yankee
: Stadium in 1971, he suggested what might have qualified as heresy for
: a Bronx native like him: that the Yankees join the Mets in Shea
: Stadium and demolish the House That Ruth Built to make way for a
: garment center.
:
: Sanford Daniel Garelik was born on Aug. 15, 1918, to a Bronx family
: with a dairy business for which he worked as a bottler in his youth.

Confusing...I've seen Garelick Farms milk from Massachusetts,
but that's apparently a DIFFERENT dairy business.

: He was a member of the Police Academy?s class of 1940 and received the
: department?s Combat Cross a year later for wounding a fugitive from a

: holdup while off duty in the Bronx.
:
: Gertrude Schimmel, another member of the 1940 class, who became the
: first female deputy chief of police in 1978,

She was the "first woman ____" for a number of NYPD ranks,
just as William Bracey was the first black ____ up to his
final post as the Chief of Patrol (the post considered
second to the Chief Inspector/Chief of Operations/Chief of Department
position Garelik held,though the Chief of Detectives and other
"superchiefs" also report directly to that renamed post).

: recalled that Mr. Garelik

: once jumped out of his car to make an arrest, even after he had become

: ?a big chief? in the department.

:
: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly praised Mr. Garelik on Sunday for

: his ?keen intellect, drive and passion? for the job. ?Even bigots
: forgot why they had opposed his accession,? Mr. Kelly said.
:
: As a candidate for mayor ? buttons for his campaign, quickly aborted
: amid flailing poll numbers, are available online for $3.95 ? Mr.

: Garelik presented a law-and-order platform. His hallmark slogan, Mr.

: Garelik?s son recalled Sunday, was ?Enough is enough.? In 1972, Mr.
: Garelik proposed a monthly ?Anti-Graffiti Day? to combat what he
: deemed a scourge that ?pollutes the eye and mind.?
:
: In 1980, Mr. Garelik was removed from his position with the transit

: police by Mayor Edward I. Koch as part of an effort to place the
: transit police under the auspices of the Police Department.

:
: ?There wasn?t any reason I recall that was negative,? Mr. Koch said on
: Sunday about the move. ?But we were going to consolidate. You have one
: police commissioner.?
:
: After his ouster, Mr. Garelik established the Garment Center Economic

: Security Council and later oversaw security for the Fashion Center
: Business Improvement District until 2004.
:
: In addition to his son, Mr. Garelik is survived by a brother, Bernard
: Garelik, and four grandchildren.
:

: Mr. Garelik?s wife of 57 years, the former Catherine Clark, died in

: 2007. The two met in 1947, at a hospital in East Harlem, where she
: oversaw the emergency room. Mr. Garelik had arrived in plain clothes
: to speak to an officer, who had been shot, as part of an
: investigation. His future wife informed him that patients were not

: seeing visitors. But as Mr. Garelik searched for the officer?s room
: regardless, she chased him, jumping on his back. ?Somebody call the
: police,? she shouted.
:
: ?Lady,? he said to the woman he would ask to a Broadway show one week
: later, ?I am the police.?
: A version of this article appeared in print on November 21, 2011, on

: page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: Sanford Garelik,
: 93, Dies; Ran for Mayor.

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