David has lived in Tottenham for over twenty years and is now raising a family here. He is a governor of South Harringay Junior School and has long been active in local residents associations.
David's parents were refugees from Hitler who came first to England and who later went to the United States, where he was born. He was educated in an inner-city state school and at Syracuse University and the University of London. After working for the New York City Department of Social Services in the South Bronx, where he acquired the skill of helping people with limited knowledge of English to deal with complex issues, he came to England, and qualified as a barrister in London.
As a barrister he specialises in property work, and has defended many homeowners in complicated mortgage possession cases. He has given free advice and representation to the Chestnuts Community Centre and has helped the Ward's Corner Community Coalition in its attempts to defend the Latin American market at Seven Sisters. He also presented the objections of the Harringay Ladder Community Safety Partnership in opposing the planning application for a concrete batching plant by the Hornsey/Harringay border and advised members of the Alexandra Palace Board who were concerned about the attempt to railroad the sale of that important building to a private developer.
David first became politically active when the property next door to him became a drugs den. For a year it was occupied by "yardies" with firearms convictions, by prostitutes and by a never-ending stream of addicts, and yet Haringey's Labour Council did nothing to intervene, even though they had powers under the town planning laws to do so. The problem, which blighted the entire street, only came to an end when the house caught fire and David bought it from the owner and spent a year converting the wreck into a family home. In the meantime he became active in local residents' associations and then in the Lib Dems.
In the Council elections of 2006 he led the campaign in the Harringay Ladder which resulted in the election of the Lib Dems' first Tottenham Councillors.
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