Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: NT-3121

00:01:24 0	Title card: The Eleventh Hour #121 Newark. Rec: 2/6/89
00:02:03 39.48	Charitable donations announced and overlay The Eleventh Hour graphic
00:02:12 48.61	The Eleventh Hour graphic and show opener
00:02:32 68.62	Aerial of Host Robert Lipsyte sitting at desk in studio, The Eleventh Hour graphic overlay.
00:02:38 74.08	Host Robert Lipsyte at desk introduces himself and welcomes viewers to The Eleventh Hour.
00:02:52 88.7	Host Lipsyte discusses the topic of today's program - the economic renaissance of Newark, New Jersey and the human price of the progress. Is it worth it?
00:02:58 94.5	Host Lipsyte cuts to behind the scene at a soup kitchen in New Jersey. African American woman in kitchen holding paper plate of food, man in apron standing at sink in bkgd.
00:03:01 97.45	Woman in soup kitchen passing plate of food through kitchen passthrough
00:03:07 103.73	African American woman in pink sweater and wool hat on other side of kitchen passthrough placing the prepared paper plates of food, napkins covering each plate, placing plates on tray to be served
00:03:18 114.29	African American man in dining hall of soup kitchen, people sitting at tables, he thanks the Lord for the food about to be received.
00:03:37 133.43	Pan paper plates of individual meals on a table
00:03:41 137.08	Lipsyte narrates over scenes at the Newark South Park Temple Soup Kitchen. Woman preparing plates of food. The soup kitchen is being forced to close down.
00:03:42 138.42	Hand holding a paper plate of food
00:03:45 141.44	A table lined up with food on paper plates, plastic utensils on each one.
00:03:52 148.81	Pan out from red and white sign on building, "Free Lunch Tue.Wed.Thur.Fri. 12 til 2P.M. Back Door. Iron fence in foreground.
00:03:57 153.05	Pan out on The Newark Lighthouse Temple Soup Kitchen building with large white columns, sign on door, iron fence, ped walking by. Host Lipsyte narrates about the building, an old church, is about to be torn down
00:03:58 154.46	African American man in kitchen passing plates of food through kitchen passthrough
00:04:03 158.99	Man serving plates of food to people in soup kitchen
00:04:04 160.33	African American man serving food to people sitting at table in the Newark Lighthouse Temple Soup Kitchen.
00:04:09 165.51	Reverand James Parrot and unknown gentleman speaking to unseen interviewer about the forced shutting down of the Newark South Park Temple Soup Kitchen.
00:04:33 189.73	Black woman in pink sweater and wool hat handing out food to people in soup kitchen
00:04:51 207.27	Tilt up old stone cathedral
00:04:56 212.64	Wide shot brick colonial building with sign on front lawn reads: Mann Avenue Church - Presbytery of Newark, Mount Olive's Church
00:05:01 217.43	Woman walking up to front door of same building, knocks on door. Robert Lipsyte narrating. No one answers, she peaks in door window
00:05:12 228.66	New York Architect, Troy West, speaking to unseen interviewer about the church's structure, does not believe the church is unsound contrary to what others believe and are lying about
00:05:26 242.6	Pan interior church elaborate high arched ceiling, rows of church pews, pan up on organ pipes
00:06:03 279.8	Exterior wide shot soup kitchen building on corner of street, traffic going by
00:06:07 283	Engineer David Dubrow tilt up standing in front of old church in question talking to unseen interviewer stating the building is completely sound and there's no problem with the integrity of the building.
00:06:17 293.2	Pan out from top of church spire
00:06:44 320.85	Pan across street in Newark, New Jersey to Newark Symphony Hall theatre, marquis reads Essex County Presents Wynton Marsalis Feb 3 ? (traffic light obscures year), peds crossing street, traffic.
00:06:45 321.67	New Symphony Hall marquis
00:06:52 328.8	Wide shot from across street New Symphony Hall, traffic, peds.
00:06:55 331.65	Man serving paper plate of food to people in soup kitchen. Host Lipsyte narrates over scene of people eating. The Symphony unable to buy the church unfortunately
00:06:59 335.13	four paper plates of meals and plastic utensils
00:07:06 342.32	African American people sitting around table eating a meal served on paper plates
00:07:16 352.7	Reverend Parrot talks about the shutting down of the soup kitchen, supplies are gone and having to serve meals on paper plates.
00:07:33 369.87	African American woman volunteer Betty Brown speaking with unseen interviewer about how difficult it is to prepare meals with little or no supplies
00:08:08 404.29	Talking head African American man working in soup kitchen talking about how sad it is that the program is being shut down.
00:08:39 435.52	Policeman walking into building
00:08:42 438.34	Hand holding legal document (eviction notice)
00:09:02 458.78	Officials in office standing around desk, on multiple phones
00:09:06 462.83	Reverend Parrot talking with unseen interviewer about finding a new home for the Soup Kitchen, has high hopes.
00:09:41 497.85	Back in studio, Host Lipsyte introduces first guest, Joan Parritt, and daughter of the Reverend Parritt from the Newark soup kitchen. INSERT INTERVIEW Robert Lipsyte; and whether that's a sort of pervasive attitude that that's what's necessary. Should Newark rise again. What What is happening? Joan Parrot As you can see, we are attempting in our ministry to feed the hungry we've attempted to clothe the naked we've attempted to give water to those that were thirsty, anyone that has been abused or underprivileged and is suffering in Newark right now we feel that our responsibility the ministry, is to minister to them. It's becoming increasingly difficult to really service those ones that need to be serviced when we are affected by what might be hidden agendas with the city or with the owner of our building. Robert Lipsyte Let's talk about the hidden agenda of the owner of your building the presbytery of Newark, what is their hidden agenda? Joan Parrot Bob, that's a good question. I think we've had the same response that channel 13 has had in trying to contact the executive presbytery of the Presbyterian presbytery of Newark. We don't know what their hidden agenda is. We only know that we were given on the beginning of September 24 hour notice to vacate our building that we have occupied for some 14 years. We have offered to buy the building. We have been rejected Robert Lipsyte How much did you offer them? Joan Parrot We just wanted to start negotiations to buy the building. Robert Lipsyte We are saying? they wouldn't sell it to you. Joan Parrot No, There was no discussion, no negotiations, and we only found out recently that they had offered Symphony Hall to buy it. So I Don't want to say that money might be the under the hidden agenda. But I really think Robert Lipsyte Do you guys have enough money to give them what they want? Joan Parrot I'm really we are a poor church working in the poor community. And we would want to buy the building at a minimum costs, or either continue to use to build and we have a lot of people from the community who have come forth and said, Hey, we will give you the money to make the necessary reparations, we will give you the money to do whatever is necessary to keep this program going. Robert Lipsyte Let me interrupt you for just a moment because the implication of course is that your landlord, the presbytery is trying to sell us out from under you and get in on Newarks building boom, that's the implication. We don't really have that documented. But even if that's true, legally, there's nothing wrong with that, certainly not in this society. And perhaps even morally, this may not be wrong. Joan Parrot Well, I think when you're talking about the church, we're talking about the Presbyterian Church, and specifically the presbytery of Newark, with Dr. Carey Washington as executive Presbyterian. We have not only moral, moral, ethical responsibility, but we have a Christian Robert Lipsyte When you say we, you're talking about the church Joan Parrot The church, yes, yes, we have a moral and a Christian responsibility to feed the poor to house, the homeless, Robert Lipsyte and not to make it on building boom. Joan Parrot Exactly, exactly. And that's the issue here. We're saying to them, we were we came together in a fellowship, to to service the community. And that happened 14 years ago, the relationship has been just splendid. It has just been since this new administration took over that. We've been feeling other things which lead us to believe that there is a hidden agenda for the Presbyterian Church in general. They are committed to those initiatives Robert Lipsyte Money is the root of all evil. I read that in a book somewhere. Now. Let me ask you this. Do you think there's any possibility that what seems to be happening here? Is there a sense of metaphor, what is happening perhaps all over Newark, that the poor, the needs of the poor, are being sacrificed in this, perhaps last chance for this city to make it? Joan Parrot I think it's a strong possibility of the line that we feed every day 400 to 500 people that come in every day, you have people that have been displaced by the arson that has taken place. In our community, they say there's nothing better than a picture replaces 1000 words and just to see the area where the church is very interesting right now, Robert Lipsyte we're going to see some picture Hey, please don't don't go away. Okay. We're going to be coming back with some guests By the way, who think you're you're all wrong. But first we asked Camillo Viguero and urban sociologist to share with us some of his photographs and his thoughts about Newark, a city he has prowled for a decade.
00:14:25 781.13	Host Robert Lipsyte introduces an off set guest, Camillo Viguero, Urban Sociologist
00:14:25 781.76	Camillo Viguero speaking to unseen unknown interviewer from the top of a building overlooking high rise buildings.
00:14:35 791.31	B&W photograph of a corner in downtown Newark, "Bargains" shop on corner.
00:14:38 794.94	Photo still wide shot of downtown Newark, a cluster of tall corporate high rise buildings
00:14:45 801.62	Photo still of commercial area in Newark, featuring warehouses, rr tracks
00:14:48 804.77	Photo still of a homeless person sleeping on a filthy mattress, covered in dirty blankets in a garbage strewn area
00:14:54 810.66	Photo still two forlorn looking men huddled under a makeshift tent, could be under an overpass, dirty dark looking area.
00:15:02 818.21	Photograph of interior unkempt homeless shelter, person sleeping on the floor, woman overlooking her infant sleeping on a mattress, kids in the background, clothes hanging, unkempt mattress
00:15:15 831.01	Mr. Viguero standing on a residential Newark street, row houses lined uip behind him, talks with unseen interviewer about the hundreds of town homes being built for families with $30,000 yearly income.
00:15:22 838.85	Still photo unknown homeless African American woman, Alice Davis, in wool hat and plaid coat.
00:15:28 844.8	Photos of older brick apartment buildings and "shabby" looking residential homes in run down neighborhoods as Viguero narrates about how new construction goes up but housing for the poor goes down.
00:15:44 860.25	Mr. Viguero standing in front of the South Park Temple Soup Kitchen, signs behind him read "Free Lunch" He reads about the closure of the kitchen and future development in down town Newark.
00:15:51 867.37	Live shot of Newark's Symphony Hall - marquee reads Essex County (pole obscures a bit of marquee) Present, Winston Marsalis, Feb ?. Traffic going by.
00:15:56 872.11	Rendering of sleek new art complex in downtown Newark
00:16:10 886.69	Photo of gigantic high rise housing project in Newark.
00:16:15 891.63	Demolition of gigantic housing project. It crumbles down in the dust of huge explosion - onlookers across the street.
00:16:22 897.95	Photo still of a black homeless man sitting forlornly looking over a small fire coming out of a can.
00:16:26 902.15	Posters outside of soup kitchen read: "Free Lunch Tue.Wed.Thur.Fri." and n red letters," Free,Lunch Tue.Wed. Thur.Fri. 12 til 2pm Back Door".
00:16:35 911.49	z'in on large empty lot with red sofa, tables behind chain linked fence.
00:16:46 922.73	Mr. Viguero continues reading as he is standing in front of a demolition and talks over same photo of poor black woman, Alice Davis - and states that, "Newark's officials have single mindedly focused on the revival of the city at the expense of it's poorest residents". "...Newark is burning again"...
00:17:03 939.41	z'in on same photo of homeless man sitting over a fire made in a small tin can.
00:17:05 941.41	Wide shot in studio, Host Lipsyte with guests sitting on sofa and easy chair looking at television set.
00:17:09 945.82	Robert Lipsyte introduces his guests, Harold Lucas, Newark Director of Development; and Steve Adubato, Director, Newark North Ward Center.
00:17:22 958.78	INSERT INTERVIEW: Robert Lipsyte: The suggestion that was made in that tape is that the poor are once again being sacrificed in an attempt for a city to get over. And to make it I wonder, what responsibility does a city does the private sector in the city do people in a city have to poor people and and do poor people truly stand in the way of the survival of a city? Stephen Adubato for everyone's sake, that the concern has to be societal and not urban, not the city. And the structure of that building, which to me, not as an architect looks very sound. That's not the problem is the structure of our society. And that we have to put it in a blunt and, and a direct way. We have too many poor people in Newark, Newark has become a magnet for poor people. And that does not help the poor from other places. Absolutely. Supply and demand, you know, if we Robert Lipsyte Newark wanted more? Stephen Adubato no, but if we have a receptacle, you know, where the poor are drawn to, they will come there, because they're in a hopeless situation. And if we keep dealing with this problem of becoming the city of the poor, you know, in our society, we have like an Indian reservation and not real societies and a total sense. They're desperate places. The poor, Robert Lipsyte I'm sorry, I missed something something Stephen Adubato What did you miss? Robert Lipsyte about an Indian reservation, Stephen Adubato In other words, they are not real communities, there are communities that are very artifical Robert Lipsyte Indian reservations are not real communities? Stephen Adubato Well talk to Indians on Indian Reservation. Robert Lipsyte I think you're getting let's that's perhaps another show Stephen Adubato let's leave the Indians out. Let's talk about talk about the poor Robert Lipsyte let's talk about the poor people of Newark Stephen Adubato city of the poor is not a city that would be good for the poor. And that would be good for Newark or America, a city that has a a mix of managerial people working class and poor. That would be the best example and the best atmosphere for the poor to to come out of that circumstances Robert Lipsyte they would be integrated to a.. Let's Let's hold that for a second. And we'll come back. Harold, I think probably one of your concerns and problems is just such an integration you've got to bring. You've got to bring corporations into the city. You've got to create a tax base, you've got to give them tax of basements, abatements of basements, abatements and inducements to come into the city. And yet you have an image problem. Two of which this program is not helping, I guess, what have you got to do? Harold Lucas Well to begin with, I'd like to start by suggesting that many of the problems that we're in Newark seem to be turning around now mainly because the image of Newark is improving beyond that, that Newark had after the 1967 riots. We've come to the conclusion that in order for Newark to truly endure a renaissance that we have to have a socio economic and racial mix to bring the city back. We certainly cannot Robert Lipsyte excuse me when you say racial mix, you mean more white people. Harold Lucas: We mean to balance the races Stephen Adubato With people the way America is made up Don't say more whites. America is not a is a nation. Obviously they're very clearly we have a social economic racial mix.
00:20:55 1171.4	INTERVIEW CONTINUES: Robert Lipsyte: You have a very specific where you're trying to create a society Harold Lucas All right, being born and raised in Newark over the last 45 years. Newark has always been a city that had a socio economic and racial mix. lately. It's been out of kilter in terms of being more of one than the other. And it's suffered because of that. The and the reagan administration's funding sources didn't help it at all. And we have more or less been stigmatized, because of the results of what's been happening. We think in order to turn that corner, which be beginning to turn, that we have to really attract more economic mixed in ratio. But when you have an economic mix, you will also have somewhat of a racial mix as well Robert Lipsyte Harold, what I'm kind of raising the issue, before you can bring all these middle class white people in, you might have to push some of these poor black people out. Harold Lucas Well I'd like to correct that. Okay. Okay. We're not talking about bringing in middle class white people, we're talking about bringing in middle class people, there's just as many middle class black people Robert Lipsyte You brought up the race issue Harold Lucas well we're just saying that from from a from the business of America, it doesn't hurt to have a somewhat of a racial mix. But to try to clarify somebody's image problems that we have, the city of Newark has approximately 7000 to 8000 vacant lots that have, since the 67 riots the bulk of the development that's going on in the city of Newark, including the housing, which is both market rate and affordable. It's done predominantly on vacant land. I don't want to bring up the word gentrification. But it's something that's been been bandied about, I think incorrectly for a number of months. But that's further from that so much. It's just not the truth. Robert Lipsyte Gentrification is not. Harold Lucas It's just not the issue. Robert Lipsyte What's the opposite of gentrification, to me is low income housing Harold Lucas Gentrification is when you take the houses of low income people, and run them out and put up houses for non low income people. Robert Lipsyte But these vacant lots of basically burt lots Harold Lucas these are lots that have been vacant for years, Robert Lipsyte one statistic that really astounded me was that the percentage of suspicious fires in Newark was 58%. And here in New York, where I thought we were the capital of suspicious fires, it's 16%, national average is 14%. But Newark is 58%, which, which seems to be you know, urban renewal was arson. Stephen Adubato You know, I'm gonna break in here. I don't like the way it First of all, the way you show the, the background of Newark from a point of view, that's valid, but it's only one point of view, Newark in order, you know, I'm old enough to have lived Newark when it worked. When there were a lot of poor, and not just middle class, Bob, working class people Robert Lipsyte what happens, Stephen Adubato what happened was, is that we became a magnet of the poor, because after World War Two, our national policies, built highways and incentives to get out of cities must we know about that Robert Lipsyte people must have left because they're only like, 300,000 people. It's not that big a city Stephen Adubato the policies of this country created incentives for working class and middle class people to leave the cities. And what happened was that Newark became a place of the poor. And that's the main thing, you know, the main thing is not merely displacing the poor, and that soup kitchen, the main thing about us is that we will keep the poor, poor and institutionally poor and forever poor. I'm talking about a city where the poor have a chance to work with middle class and, and working class people who will demand better politicians, a better newspaper, a better school, the poor alone aren't going to do it. This mix is what America great, and that's what we want to bring back to Newark and quibbling about the things we are is going to miss the point. The point is, together, we're going to do it, not concentrating on the needs of the poor, but concentrating on a needs of a total Newark society Joan Parrot at this point, and I agree what you're saying to a certain extent, but your last statement was to concentrate on a better society. How can you do that? I'm asking you, Steve, and I'm asking you how, without we're just totally displacing the poor. you're saying that we need a mix. You're saying that we want a better place. We want Newark to be when it was working. I think that Newark is trying to work now. But you clearly cannot do that by just busing. The poor out. Yes, Mr. Harold, you have said that we have using vacant we're using those vacant lots that are going down that are being done. Those are housing
00:25:47 1463.88	INTERVIEW CONTINUES: Robert Lipsyte Joan, let's get tough for a minute, why can't you do it by getting the poor out? The poor are in the way now your ministry is to take care of poor exactly God has told you to do that exact God has not made the same demands on a lot of other people Joan Parrot It's a moral responsibility, affordable housing. A decent meal. A decent education. Robert Lipsyte There is a thought pattern that if Newark doesn't make it, everybody's going to go down. Exactly right. Exactly. And some people feel that ultimately, if this society doesn't take care of its so called underclass or poor, it's going to be destroying civilization. People feel that if we spend too much about how to worrying about Stephen Adubato how do we do it, Bob, Robert Lipsyte how do we do it? Stephen Adubato by having a mix Robert Lipsyte You keep saying having a mix? What does that mean? That means bringing in white people bringing in middle class people? Stephen Adubato that's your hang up, your hang up is on race, I'm talking about making something work to make something work, you have to have a managerial class, you will have to have a working class and you do have to have some you will have to have the gentrification that you have people that drive. That's, that's part of the equation, all of it. And even Would you excuse me, even rich people, not a city where the poor are desperately going to be poor all the time? And Joan is right any society that does that and makes the poor alone, the victim is not only amoral, you know, that's not the American society. But I'm afraid what we're doing is looking at one dimension and trying to create a solution at one dimension, it has to be more complicated. And there will be some things that we have to work out that I don't think any of that any of us have the answer for. Harold Lucas I'll jump in for a second to amplify some things that Steve had said. Clearly, the city of Newark, the administration, the city of Newark, cannot afford to ignore the poor citizens of the city of Newark. But in order to assist the poor, we have to do something. When the poor needs help they look to government for assistance, when government tends to assist were criticized for Robert Lipsyte I'm gonna have to stop you there. Harold Lucas, thank you very much. I keep Joan Parrot, Steve Adubato. This is the 11th hour. I'm Robert Lipsyte.
00:28:02 1597.97	Interview concludes. Host Lipsyte thanks guests, announces the show and introduces himself.
00:28:13 1608.95	Show credits over clips from the program.
00:28:35 1631.47	Funding by announcer and overlay the Eleventh Hour Graphic.
00:28:48 1644.88	Reel end.