He is considering drafting a letter for the apartment's next tenant explaining its history, something he wished he had gotten before moving in.
A separate bill he is drafting would shift rent-controlled apartments to the rent-stabilization system, which could help hold the line on rent increases.
Mr. Hayden, who was steeled by a Catholic social conscience, was 22 when he began drafting the manifesto in March 1962 in his Manhattan apartment.
Officials are drafting sweeping legislation that would require multiunit, multistory apartments and all commercial buildings to be seismically evaluated within five years.
Ms. Bernhard denied that anyone had been promised an apartment, and said that committees would soon draft guidelines on how apartments should be allocated.
And another protenant councilman, Stephen DiBrienza, a Democrat from Brooklyn, is drafting a resolution urging the state to repeal vacancy decontrol for apartments renting for more than $2,000.
Putyatina laid on a lunch, and in the afternoon two lawyers (Baron Nolde and Vladimir Nabokov) were called to the apartment to draft a manifesto for Michael to sign.
So while those two architects drafted thousands of Sheetrocked apartments in the 80's, better-known professionals like Mr. Stern and Mr. Meier, sat out the dance.
An artist turned Web-site designer, Karl Sr., 61, spends at least an hour every afternoon in the family's one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment drafting sketches and submitting them to his son's critiques.
A list of projects is drafted each year — the Borgia apartments are a recent addition, for example — and money is set aside for restoration.
