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Yes. On Forest Hills, did we talk about Forest Hills?

You brought it up. You didn't go into any substance.

Did I tell you the story about Stanley Geller in Forest Hills? Let me try, and if you remember it, you'll stop me.

I got into Forest Hills in 1973 I guess was the time, maybe ‘72 -- I just don't remember anymore. I say '73 because it became a factor in the mayoralty. I got into that subject because I felt the people in Forest Hills were being pushed in an unfair way by the Lindsay Administration in that they were being made the goat. A low-income housing project was being placed in their area -- three buildings 24 stories tall, would have about 3000 people. Most of them would be on welfare. The city was lying when it said that 40% of the project would be devoted to the elderly, because nobody worries about the elderly. They're willing to have the elderly, white or black, and there aren't too many black elderly. The blacks don't have the same life span that whites have unfortunately at this moment in time. But the fact was that they weren't going to have 40% of the buildings occupied by the elderly. They might have 40% of the apartments, and the elderly are either single or at the most there's two of them -- they have no kids -- so the vast majority of the population of that project would be welfare families, a lot of kids, and not the elderly.