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…
Read MoreThis is the third 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 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 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…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…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…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 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…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 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…Canvass for Greitzer and Lanigan, profile of Rudolf Castore chairman of Verrazano Street tenants association. Page 7-8: July 1961, VID News, Noferi and Sullivan enter race, Lanigan calls for local…
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…the original building of tenants, many of whom were long-terms rent stabilized tenants, living in affordable rent-regulated apartments. The new building, though more than four times the height of the…
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…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…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 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…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 Preservation Advocates,…
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…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 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…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…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…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…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…the fox is in the chicken coop.” – Marilyn Appleberg, President, 10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association “The tenants are especially grateful to Village Preservation for its support over all…
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…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…by HPD in communities south of the project to ensure that tenants in rent-stabilized buildings know their rights and spot the signs of tenant harassment. This will include community-wide forums, door-knocking campaigns,…
Read More…York, which planned to demolish it for a nursing home. But the tenants of the house, Sven and Ingrid Bernhard, who had renovated the historic property, refused to give up their…
Read More…Carl Schurz, and other social reformers joined to found Greenwich House, located at 27 Barrow Street. Simkhovitch and Greenwich House’s work led to the publication of the country’s first tenants…
Read More…of Greenwich Village was teeming with new immigrants. Simkhovitch and Greenwich House’s work led to the publication of the country’s first tenants manual and the founding of United Neighborhood Houses,…
Read More…tenants (read coverage here and here). Yet this development scheme was chosen by the City and Councilmember Rivera over other proposals that offered more public benefits in a smaller building that did not require…
Read More…squeezing out lower-income tenants and people of color,” said Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation. “The good news is the city does not need to move forward with this…
Read More…it fails to account for the many current rent stabilized and loft law tenants, as well as small businesses, which are likely to be pushed out by the proposed changes…
Read More…it fails to account for the many current rent stabilized and loft law tenants, as well as small businesses, which are likely to be pushed out by the proposed changes…
Read More…and 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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…and non-profits using State and Federal funds, while requiring the small business or non-profit and the property owner to share the burden of the shortfall. Certified COVID-19 affected tenants would…
Read More…several times. The building is now home to commercial office tenants on the upper floors, and since 2006, Astor Wines on the ground floor. The De Vinne Press Building falls…
Read More…the City. These buildings were not only rich in history but housed long-term tenants and affordable, rent-regulated units. HOW TO HELP: Tell the Mayor you are outraged he is letting…
Read More…throughout the area, it was reported that the “commercial element is beginning to have its troubles.” The new tenants wanted to live in a “respectable” neighborhood and dance halls began…
Read More…and non-profits using State and Federal funds, while requiring the small business or non-profit and the property owner to share the burden of the shortfall. Certified COVID-19 affected tenants would…
Read MoreVillage Preservation (GVSHP) has joined forces with the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, the Broadway Residents Coalition, Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, the NoHo Neighborhood Association, and the SoHo Alliance to form…
Read More…SoHo-NoHo Coalition (including the SoHo Alliance, the NoHo Neighborhood Association, New York City Loft Tenants, the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, and the Broadway Residents Coalition) are fighting for the following principles…
Read MoreAre you as angry as we are that the City is allowing five ‘landmark-eligible’ 19th century buildings at 112-120 East 11th Street, which formerly contained long-term tenants and affordable housing,…
Read More…Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, 318 Restaurant Workers Union and… RSVP HERE In the fall of 2020, the de Blasio administration announced its plans to rezone the neighborhoods of SoHo and NoHo, saying…
Read More…an industrial building to artist’s housing in the late 1960s and early 70s. He, along with this wife and two children, were also original tenants of the building. Full Transcript…
Read More…to be allowed. All secondary signs that were to be given to the tenants to use as seen fit were to be avoided. The internally lit signs were unharmonious to…
Read More…Business Jobs Survival Act, which would require landlords to offer up to ten-year lease renewals to commercial tenants if mutually agreed upon or arbitrated terms can be reached, as well…
Read More…here. Sponsored by: Village Preservation, Greenwich Village Block Associations, Washington Square/Lower 5th Ave. Community Association, Waverly Place Block Association, Bleecker Area Merchants’ and Residents’ Association, Washington Square Village Tenants’ Association,…
Read More…Local businesses are vanishing at an alarming rate, but Twilight showcases how neighborhoods can counteract this trend. Next we will see The Vanishing City. Told through the eyes of tenants,…
Read More…and a warehouse before being converted 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,…
Read More…the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, Annette Blaugrund, will highlight the building and its famous artist-tenants in a lively illustrated talk. This event is not fully accessible….
Read More…a pedimented temple front. Later tenants of the building during the 1920s included printers and book binders as the area emerged as a center for those industries. This included Hal…
Read More…Act, which would require landlords to offer up to ten-year lease renewals to commercial tenants if mutually agreed upon or arbitrated terms can be reached, as well as zoning regulations…
Read More…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…
Read More…all of the tenants of the houses. Sullivan Street, 1920. MCNY University Village/Silver Towers University Village/Silver Towers and Sylvette Greenwich Village is home to what is considered by many one…
Read More…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…
Read More…an asset. The owner has also stated that he will not rent to a cannabis shop, but has been in discussion with potential coffee shop tenants. Read more here, here,…
Read More…held onto them to rebuild someday for wealthy tenants. In either case, little was being done for the individuals and families who stayed in this part of the East Village…
Read More…& Company grew too big for the space and moved out of 72 Fifth Avenue, allowing smaller tenants to take its place. In 1915 Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. leased the…
Read More…not kept up; improvements are not made. Residential and business tenants share the insecurity that sends everything downhill. Twenty-eight years of this can do a lot of damage. Along the…
Read More…and State government, where he focused on issues like housing policy, tenants rights, environmental justice, civil rights, transportation and education. He has also held leadership positions in various local, city,…
Read More…in effect for 14-16 Fifth Avenue. So neither building has been deemed irreparable, for now. Village Preservation has been in touch with building tenants and Councilmember Erik Bottcher about conditions…
Read More…allies, who recognized that allowing NYU’s expansion in the area (as the version of the rezoning passed by the City Planning Commission would have allowed) would displace tenants and arts…
Read More…press and handling tenants’ problems,” beginning what would eventually become a storied career in preservation and advocacy for decades to come. Published by The Villager, the group shared its goal…
Read More…the original Westbeth tenants as a “Westbeth Icon.” This event and the video are a wonderful supplement to the oral history that Village Preservation has to share. The video begins…
Read More…operation who appreciates the value of having good, reliable tenants and fostering a sense of business community, has worked with her and enabled her to stay open. Secondly, the crisis…
Read More…in Westbeth in the early 1970s as a time when tenants were encouraged to customize their living spaces, create their own interest-based groups, and invent whatever their growing community needed….
Read More…role in Cunningham’s creative life. Among the very first tenants in 1971, he rented the penthouse auditorium studios here. For the next 38 years Westbeth was home to the Merce…
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