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live illegally, it is understandable that no official agency has been able to survey the area. Still, the City Planning Commission has been able to compile a map of the location of converted buildings by examining sources that include Buildings Department files that show major alterations and Certificates of Occupancy; Board of Standards and Appeals cases to determine variances; the Department of Housing Preservations and Development to locate conversations that had applied for tax benefits; the State Attorney General's Office files to locate buildings which are being turned into cooperatives. 3 They also consulted local papers and Cole's reverse telephone directory. This map has been made available to the Artists Television Network through the kind offices of the City Planning Commission, particularily [[particularly]] from Jack Freeman, Deputy Director of the Zoning Study Group.

The Artists Television Network thereupon decoded to conduct its own survey knowing that more cooperation could probably be elicited from the community by virtue of its distinct lack of interest in the legality of each person's residency. The survey, as indicated in the outlines, will cover total and artist population, income status, age, household composition, housing, occupation, and interest in using television as a tool for artistic communication.

The survey itself will take the form of a simple questionnaire, prestamped and addressed to the Artists Television Network. These will be placed in selected buildings with the help of New York University students (through the auspices of the NYU film department). Prior to the questionnaire placement however, the neighborhood will be surveyed by the students to determine which buildings will be chosen and how many questionnaires should be placed in each. This preliminary work will be followed by publicity - specifically, posters on the buildings and community announcements in the local papers. Finally the questionnaires will be place. Tabulation of the results will begin the second week in May.

Survey Schedule:
April 17-21 
Buildings canvassed for addresses, potential contacts, ease of access etc.
Publicity posters designed and submitted
Community announcements written and submitted 
Specific buildings chosen
Preliminary questionnaire design
Supplies purchased

April 24-28
Publicity
Posters up, announcements in 
Budget done
Questionnaires printed

May 1-5
Questionnaire distribution

May 8-19
Survey returns and tabulation

While the questionnaires will be anonymous, respondents will be invited to participate in a face-to-face interview that will be recorded on videotape. Several of this interviews will be taped and interfaced

3Ibid. p.8