Born in Brooklyn (1944), I moved to Flushing (1954) and Jackson Heights (1973) where I share a cooperative apartment with my wife of 25 years, Melanie and our dog Hudson. I’ve competed in the Golden Gloves and N.Y.C. Marathon. I became a lawyer after a 4 year law office-clerkship and appeared successfully before the N.Y. Court Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court.

I’ve been a community activist since 1963 coaching Pop Warner Football through 1971. I organized a benefit for paralyzed policeman Steven McDonald (1987-Javits Center-10,000 people- $200,000.00). I was named N.Y.P.D. Outstanding Citizen (1994).

As president of Jackson Heights Beautification Group I was instrumental in a remarkable community turnaround. I designed a “Melting Pot”poster celebrating diversity, started our Halloween Parade, cleaned graffiti from hundreds of buildings, initiated Architectural/Good Neighbor Awards, outdoor concerts and wrote a local children’s history given to 1,200 4th graders annually. I led battles to expand P.S. 69 and I.S. 145 and secured a lease for Renaissance School. I helped organize Friends of Travers Park and local landmarking efforts.

I will fight for quality public schools, more police and municipal services and better enforcement of existing laws for cleaner, safer, quieter, affordable neighborhoods, local jobs and small business. Let’s help neighborhoods instead of subsidizing giant corporations. I will be a champion for seniors, children, workers and the sick.

I’m an effective professional advocate who leads by example, a proven leader of all people seeking a better life. I have good ideas and know how to put them into practice. I will make the 25 CD a citywide model and make you proud of me. “RUDY GRECO: GETS IT DONE”

(Statement reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)