[quote]Badillo’s World, One Tenement’s Tale and Eau N.Y.C.

Herman Badillo campaigning in the South Bronx during his unsuccessful run for mayor in 2001.

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By SAM ROBERTS
Published: December 31, 2006
Correction Appended

EARLY in 1969, three mayoral challengers — a conservative Democrat, a conservative Republican and a lonely liberal Democrat — denounced an agreement between City University and advocates for black and Puerto Rican students that would grant any high school graduate access to the university. Herman Badillo, the Bronx borough president and the lone liberal among the three Cassandras, sounded the loudest alarm over the policy, which would be both revered and vilified as “open admissions.â€