Clyde Kuemmerle speaks about his work, family, and background. Kuemmerle reflects on the experiences of unhoused people during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also talks about housing advocacy and the broken shelter system in New York City. He expresses frustration with the number of unhoused folks in New York City compared with the amount of vacant hotel rooms during the pandemic. He describes attempts to work with Councilperson Stephen T. Levin and Speaker of the Council Corey David Johnson on homelessness issues
Clergy; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Homeless persons--New York (State); Shelters for the homeless--New York (State); Hotels--New York (State); Kuemmerle, Clyde, 1941-; New York (N.Y.). Department of Homeless Services
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
34 pages
Note (Biographical)
Clyde Kuemmerle is a reverend who is ordained in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Reverend Clyde moved to New York in the late 1950s and has spent most of his life in New York City
Note
Interviewed by Lynn Lewis on May 5, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Clyde Kuemmerle, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023