This is the first part in a series about low- and moderate-income rent regulated tenants in the rezoning area the de Blasio rezoning puts at risk of displacement. If you…
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Read MoreThis is the second part in a series about low- and moderate-income affordable housing tenants in the rezoning area put at risk of displacement by de Blasio’s rezoning. If you…
Read More…Village Preservation has been telling their stories as part of our series “Tenants In the Crosshairs: The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Victims The Mayor Wants You To Forget.” These stories are…
Read More…nearby landmarked 10 Fifth Avenue (1848), displacing long-term and elderly tenants, the city has granted permission for the developer to resume structural work on the planned tower. This is the…
Read MoreImage: the Bowlmor site. The public meeting on potential landmarking and rezoning proposals for the University Place and Broadway corridors will take place Thursday, Dec. 4 from 6 to 7:30…
Read More…upon lower-income tenants, especially Asian American tenants, whose rent-regulated and loft-law housing would face extreme pressure for demolition Numerous loopholes in the rezoning plan that would allow developers to build…
Read More…the benefits of rent stabilized rent. This scenario, while possible, stands as an exception against the norm of low- and moderate-income tenants who would have to leave their neighborhood but…
Read More…Young of Tenants Taking Control, a coalition of tenants in buildings owned by Madison Realty Capital, said: “Tenants Taking Control has been dealing with Madison Realty Capital for over four years,…
Read More…buildings have been a cause of increasing complaints in Manhattan, with many tenants claiming owners place illegal hotels in their buildings to make it difficult or impossible for tenants to…
Read More…neighborhood character. The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning: Tenants in the Crosshairs Read our series of profiles about the low- and moderate-income rent-regulated tenants in the rezoning area that the de Blasio rezoning…
Read More…ties to de Blasio poised to profit from Soho rezoning,” NY Post Tenants in the Crosshairs —Real Stories of the Victims of the Proposed SoHo/NoHo Rezoning, Village Preservation The SoHo/NoHo…
Read More…tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, and Chinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents. The 1905 New…
Read More…the economic and racial diversity of New York’s residents. More pictures from the press conference are here. (l to r.) Harvey Epstein, Urban Justice Center; Michael McKee, Tenants Political Action Committee;…
Read More…fell into disrepair, with some residents even losing access to utilities. In order to protest these conditions, a tenants organization was founded. One tenant, Rudy Castore, a truck driver who…
Read More…for VID. View as PDF. February 1971 Newsletter. View as PDF. Topics include rent referendum, St. Vincent’s Hospital lawsuit, eviction proceedings at 310 West 18th Street, Hudson Towers tenants rights,…
Read More…the Tenants Political Action Committee (TenantsPAC), said: “The sheer dishonesty of the de Blasio administration in disguising the real thrust of the mayor’s SoHo/NoHo upzoning is beyond shocking. Clearly this plan,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreThere are many tactics that developers may use to get rid of tenants, or to make conditions easier for them to push them out, in order to assist with demolition…
Read More…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…
Read More…special, like #9 and #12 (which he requested to have declared a landmark). He recalls being approached by all manner of potential tenants, including deep-pocketed chains; but he only leased…
Read More…tenants in other buildings they owned, and cleared the 20 units of the original building of tenants, many of whom were long-terms rent stabilized tenants, living in affordable rent-regulated apartments….
Read More…expansion plan, and to recommend its denial. A large crowd of local residents, NYU faculty, students, alumni and tenants, community groups from around the city, and many others came out…
Read More…to have an event to introduce the bookshop and the tenants in a celebratory way. A resident there since 2004, she has gotten to know the relatively small development very…
Read More…group of the time. In response to these evictions, SoHo residents created the Artists Tenants Association (ATA), which met for the first time on April 6th, 1961 at the Judson…
Read More…to the destruction of rent regulated affordable housing and historic buildings, displacing lower-income tenants and tenants of color (especially Asian American); would result in grossly oversized development; would make these…
Read More…housing in Greenwich Village, Page 5-6: May-June 1961 VID News, VID sets campaign platform, Canvass for Greitzer and Lanigan, profile of Rudolf Castore chairman of Verrazano Street tenants association. Page…
Read More…the presence of housing discrimination. This was done by sending two prospective tenants with the same requirements to several brokers in search of an apartment. One of these tenants would…
Read More…on lots with existing residential buildings UNLESS they get a “Certificate of No Harassment” demonstrating no tenants were harassed on the site (this will help to keep tenants safe and…
Read More…Block Association “The tenants are especially grateful to Village Preservation for its support over all that time, including numerous appearances before the Board of Standards and Appeals and a willingness…
Read More…have been built. The Department of Buildings granted a waiver allowing the construction at 514-516 East 6th Street that was later reversed when the building’s tenants filed and won an…
Read More…represented today – which included Save Chelsea, the Chelsea Coalition on Housing, the Greenwich Village Community Task Force, the London Terrace Tenants Association, Tenants Political Action Committee, Council of Chelsea…
Read More…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…
Read More…now seeking “quirky” retail to generate interest in their properties. From the article: Today, landlords increasingly seek to create a quirkier, less predictable mix of retail tenants, one that can…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read MoreEast Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
Read More…group of tenants. Around 1913, the National Free Labor Association, which lobbied for states use of free convict labor, used offices in the building as their headquarters, and around 1956…
Read More…for Nos. 45, 47, and 49; they found tenants immediately. Among the first tenants were Jacob Bogcrt, carpenter at No. 39; Jacob Nauglc, mason, at No. 47; and Jacob A….
Read More…will cost about $500,000.” Detail of Broadway Facade, The Roosevelt Building. Image via LPC Designation Report., Jessica Baldwin, August 2018 One of the building’s first tenants was the American Ball…
Read More…upon its opening, The Center began to fill with individuals and organizations looking for physical space to organize, meet, share ideas, and for some, to feel safe. Originally six tenants…
Read More…out, only a modest increase in the rent was allowed for the new rent-stabilized tenant, thus providing little incentive to try to push out long-standing tenants, and keeping rents low….
Read More…building drew tenants who were artists and manufacturers, drawn by the ample light provided by the unusually large north-facing windows overlooking Union Square. The history and architectural details abound, so…
Read More…and hundreds of children. Many of Westbeth’s original tenants still live there today. The Westbeth Corporation runs the facility and the nonprofit Westbeth Artists Residents Council, created in 1980, represents…
Read More…tenants to move in. Over the course of her career, Seccombe has documented the people and landscape of the surrounding neighborhood, marking the events that have defined it and the…
Read More…ten-year lease renewals to commercial tenants in good standing, and require arbitration if a price cannot be agreed upon. The measure would prevent landlords from simply not offering tenants lease renewals…
Read More…rent. The loss of regulated units in such areas could have been worse without landmarking. Without landmarks, developers would be incentivized to buy out existing stabilized tenants and replace the…
Read More…its design that they used it extensively in their catalogs and advertisements. In addition to Gennert, the building had several other tenants of note in prominent fields connected to the…
Read More…CommUnity Concerns, Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, 318 Restaurant Workers Union and… Chinatown Mural Project LESPI EVCC SoHo Alliance Downtown Independent Democrats Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower…
Read More…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,…
Read More…of housing justice, tenants rights, labor, Chinatown, environmental, neighborhood and preservation groups in urging the Council to reject the revised plan — we owe a great debt of gratitude to…
Read More…of housing justice, tenants rights, labor, Chinatown, environmental, neighborhood and preservation groups in urging the Council to reject the revised plan — we owe a great debt of gratitude to…
Read More…rich Hispanic history, NBC News, December 12 City of ‘Oops!’ Next-door construction leaves E. 14th St. tenants homeless, Village Sun, December 9 32-Foot LinkNYC 5G Towers Get Pushback from Historic…
Read More…on his years living on Spring Street, and mentions a fire that broke out during his time there. Now, thanks to one of our constituents and his former upstairs tenants,…
Read More…period, Greitzer successfully ran for several elected positions, advocated for historic preservation protections within Greenwich Village, tenants’ rights, the removal of cars from Washington Square park, and much more. During…
Read MoreJoin Village Preservation, the Chinatown Working Group, TenantsPAC, and SoHo, NoHo, East Village, and Lower East Side community groups for a rally and press conference this coming Monday, May 10,…
Read More…(of which there are many in our neighborhoods) and certain kinds of existing affordable housing, and requiring protections for existing tenants and the inclusion of some below-market-rate income-restricted units in…
Read More…wall mounted directory sign with removable plates (for 2nd and 3rd floor retail tenants) at the right side of the main entrance door. 2) View the application: Available in PDF….
Read More…Square Village (owned by NYU and largely housing NYU faculty, but with a significant percentage of rent-stabilized and rent-controlled tenants remaining from the days before NYU took over), and the…
Read More…Arrested for Sitting at Tompkins Square Park Chess Table (Gothamist) Old Mars Bar Building Tenants are Buying New Units for $10 Each (Curbed) IHOP Coming Soon to East Village (Gothamist)…
Read More…ground-floor commercial tenants certainly distinguish them. Since 1927, 116 West 3rd Street has been the home to Cafe Reggio, known as the first coffee house in America and the place…
Read More…budget and by the 1930s the building was reconfigured into office space for the National Archives, a post office, and other Federal agencies. Even as the various Federal tenants gradually…
Read More…Planning Commission know that residents, NYU faculty, NYU students, NYU tenants, and all New Yorkers who care about the Village object to this destructive and wrong-headed plan. The public hearing…
Read More…the buildings without complying with aspects of the Multiple Dwelling Law created more than 80 years ago to protect tenants and the fire and rescue personnel who come to their…
Read More…feet – to the investor Louis J. Glickman. Telephone listings from the 1970’s and 80’s list no baking operations, only light industrial tenants, in an area that was sliding into…
Read More…throughout the city. Peter Herter considered his firm’s designs for tenements of a better quality than the standard and therefore better for the tenants. He and architect Ernest Flagg, designer of…
Read More…Council which makes important decisions about the use of collective gallery space which they run and the admission of new tenants, and the complex is run by a non-profit board. …
Read More…more vibrant retail mix than currently exists. Their goal: to not only attract thousands of new residents to the area, but to make it more attractive to commercial tenants, to…
Read More…operated as a hotel and, in 1915, it held a store and factory. Several long-term tenants included two hat shops – Herman Rosenberg Hats (c. 1935-60) and the Universal Hat…
Read More…course of its history. The earliest was John H. Rohde, a saloon and liquor dealer, who occupied the space from 1887 to 1906. Future tenants also included those selling produce;…
Read More…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…
Read More…of TenantsPAC, which calls itself “the only organization in New York State devoted to advancing the tenant cause through election activity”: “The biggest impediment to creating affordable housing is the…
Read More…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…
Read More…me of the upright tail of a turkey (while we’re on a Thanksgiving theme, right?). Brooks Brothers, the men’s clothing company still in business today, was the building’s first tenants…
Read More…(plus a parking lot), the naysayers say (though 20% of the units will be reserved for low-income tenants). And they have a point. But here at GVSHP we have a…
Read More…causing major headaches for tenants and vulnerability to old buildings — rather than fireproofing them in their existing hallway locations, which would achieve the same goal with less disruption all…
Read More…properties. The remaining units are home to longtime tenants of modest income. Stahl York Avenue submitted a “hardship application” to the LPC for the demolition of the buildings on the…
Read More…once a place is threatened. According to a broker with the De Robertis listing, the buildings are to be delivered vacant, except for tenants with ongoing leases, which includes several…
Read More…the building’s life from the beginning until the recent chapter that has some renown. Cashman found a long succession of owners, countless tenants, and businesses ranging from pickle shop to…
Read More…others – by exempting the building owner (Silverstein Properties) from real estate taxes that are usually passed on to tenants. In the Bronx, the Casita Maria Center for Arts and…
Read More…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…
Read More…Bleecker and Christopher Streets is quite different from the Bleecker Street scene of today. Though the commercial tenants on the street have certainly changed, the corner building, with its interesting…
Read More…in the mid-1960s to one of New York’s first “artist loft” buildings. Among the early tenants were Claes Oldenburg & Patty Mucha, Larry Rivers, Yayoi Kusama, On Kawara, John Chamberlain,…
Read More…tenants that they bought it and moved it from Yorkville on the Upper East Side to a lot on the corner of Charles Street and Greenwich Street. What an amazing…
Read More…report coming from the new tenants: The big, beautiful neon sign reading “De Robertis Pastry Shoppe” is staying put; or at least so say Noah Bernamoff and Matt Kliegman, owners…
Read More…Streets and LaGuardia Place. GVSHP, NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, Historic Districts Council, Washington Square Village Tenants’ Association, East Village Community Coalition, Friends of Petrosino Square, LaGuardia Corner Gardens,…
Read More…bills that would benefit tenants or stop the loss of affordable housing. Not a single pro-tenant bill has made it to the floor [of the state Senate] in the last…
Read More…refrigerated spaces that were devoted to the production and storage of portion controlled frozen meats, were opened up to house new “boutique” office tenants WeWork, a company that leases office…
Read More…rights, women, tenants, and homelessness issues. She passed away in 2009 and 6th Street between 2nd and 1st Avenues bears her name. Ellen Stewart Way. Ellen Stewart Way…
Read More…to get the zoning changed, and the community—and that’s when I started to get involved—we became part of a larger group called Third Avenue Tenants’, Artists’ and Businessmen’s Association…”(Appleberg p.11-12)…
Read More…opening a rental office for the project, the Housing Authority received between 3,000 and 4,000 applications. Prospective tenants were carefully selected by a team of social workers, with preference given…
Read More…business at the corner of West and Leroy Streets, and later, several other tenants – mostly families – resided there. After the Civil War, this area of the Village was…
Read More…been installed to evade detection and keep the reported $6000 a month tenants upstairs with service. Five people were arrested in February in connection to this tragic incident. Today,…
Read More…Mr. Croman and his staff to harass tenants and drive them from rent-regulated apartments. The battle has taken its toll on Ishrat the proprietor, who recently had a stroke. He is…
Read More…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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