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South Village Reminiscing

…fixtures instead of electricity until 1950. That was the year that some of the tenants asked the landlady to call ConEd and have the building “wired”. She refused, so the

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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability

…1974. As in many New York City Housing Authority developments, residents often struggle to get needed repairs and maintenance. But GVSHP worked with the tenants association to use the complex’s…

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2017 Village Awardee: GOLES

…community-based 501 (c)(3) committed to organizing low- and moderate-income tenants in Loisaida/Lower East Side and East Village rent-stabilized tenement buildings. During GOLES’ earliest years in the 1970’s and 1980’s, many landlords…

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German Heritage #SouthOfUnionSquare

…part of No. 86 to tenants, a tradition that would continue through the 20th century by their heirs. In 1905, a 40-foot rear extension was added at the first floor,…

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59 Bleecker Street – Art Deco in NoHo

…Street began to face increasing competition for tenants from newly-developing districts uptown, and this slide continued after World War I. The economic boom of the 1920’s somewhat improved the occupancy…

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A Landmark of Hypocrisy?

tenants. In fact, according to several sources familiar with the negotiations, NYU played hardball with the tenants, extracting commitments regarding their willingness to drop formal opposition to NYU’s expansion plans,…

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From Rear Tenement to Off-Broadway House

…property owners for creating unfathomably terrible housing for lower class tenants. His rear stables at 121 and 123 Christopher Street were converted into housing; piling 14 and 10 tenants into…

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More Small Business With Big History

the property owner to share the burden of the shortfall.  Certified COVID-19 affected tenants would have to pay the lesser of 20% of their income or 1/3 of their rent,…

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Even More Daytonian in Greenwich Village

…This structure was originally built as an “office, factory, shop and stable” designed by Robert Maynicke. It had numerous tenants over the years including an elevator manufacturer, an embalming school…

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Meet the Wolf of SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown!

…moderate-income tenants so as to displace them, demolish buildings with affordable housing (there are well over 700 units in the rezoning area), and build larger market rate ones in their…

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Supporting Small Business in our Neighborhoods

…is long, without even counting macroeconomic headwinds: outrageous rent hikes, a bias by corporate landlords and lenders toward chains and multinational tenants, the “warehousing” of storefronts, and nuisance lawsuits, among…

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Remembering Activist Debby Lee Cohen

…purchased by an investment firm in August, 2022. Others reportedly received huge rent increases and fearing displacement, immediately organized. The tenants organized. They held a rally, contacted the media, and…

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Cable Cars, Cable Buildings, and Multiplexes

…its route and the Broadway line switched to electric power. The Metropolitan Traction Co. continued to own the building, renting space to various commercial tenants. After going into receivership in…

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The Tenement Houses of Second Avenue

…1811 Plan were already obsolete. These industrial workers needed somewhere to live, and the solution was tenement housing—a contraction of “tenant house,” meaning a place where tenants lived rather than…

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Preserving the Past is Female!

…explained that changing the rent laws to protect the tenants was imperative so landlords couldn’t just throw them out. Next, she explained one of the key elements to a historic…

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Jared Kushner’s (Preservation) Record

…and South Village apartment buildings, mostly tenements, many with long-term tenants and still-affordable rents.  Among those are 156 Sullivan Street, a lovely Beaux-Arts tenement just across from the historic St….

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The Voice Leaves the Village

…to sell 5,000 singing canaries to the nearby Wanamaker department store. Eventually Hartz departed the East Village and the spaces were taken over by other commercial tenants. The Voice space…

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Horsing Around the Village

…Street building was constructed in 1892-93 to the designs of architect Julius Munckwitz. The building, with its brick and stone-clad façade, housed many commercial tenants (many early trucking firms) and…

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The Red Herring at 570 Lex

…most of the owners do not live permanently in their apartments, but simply maintain them as pieds-à-terre. L-R: Harvey Epstein, Urban Justice Center; Michael McKee, Tenants Political Action Committee; Katy…

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