…ACLU. Because tenants at 70 Fifth Avenue were leaders in the fields of social justice, publishing, international cooperation, labor organizing and education, this building stood as a microcosm of the…
Read More…help preserve and protect rent regulated and other forms of affordable housing, keeping lower-income tenants in their homes and preventing the loss of this precious and rapidly disappearing resource. Historic…
Read More…appearance distinguished by a Palladian character of rich though sober ornament.“ While at Richmond Hill, Washington wrote every day to various generals, lieutenants, and John Hancock, the President of the…
Read More…no affordable housing. Construction of such additions are often used to harass out and remove long term rent regulated tenants. Read coverage in The Village Sun, AMNY, The Commercial Observer,…
Read More…no affordable housing. Construction of such additions are often used to harass out and remove long term rent regulated tenants. Read coverage in The Village Sun, AMNY, The Commercial Observer,…
Read More…have documented throughout the process, the magnitude of the upzoning creates an irresistible incentive to harass, buy out, or otherwise push out rent regulated tenants in order to demolish the…
Read More…upzoning would create an enormous incentive to harass tenants or buy them out so as to facilitate the demolition of these buildings and make room for the development of the…
Read More…garner funding. Unfortunately, in 1948 Campagna acquired eviction certificates from the City. By March, he had demolished 64 Washington Square South. Tenants living in the three remaining houses battled with…
Read More…City’s claim that their rezoning won’t endanger rent-regulated tenants or housing; it will, and the anti-harassment provisions will do little to change that, based upon evaluations made by housing and…
Read More…decorative program. Image via Apartments.com. The Queen Anne tenement buildings at 52, 54, and 56 East 7th Street while sparse compared to high-style Queen Anne buildings employ the central tenants…
Read More…to buy out or harass tenants of the 700+affordable housing units in the neighborhood so as to eliminate those units, demolish those buildings, and replace them with much larger new…
Read More…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…
Read More…then, the ground floor units housed numerous commercial tenants. 127-129 have been the home of the popular restaurant La Lanterna di Vittorio since 1977. The backyard at La Lanterna di…
Read MoreOn Monday we also staged a well-attended rally and press conference opposing the Mayor’s upzoning plan for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown co-sponsored by TenantsPAC, the Chinatown Working Group, and a vast…
Read More…his apartments and push out the lower-income and shorter-term tenants that lived at his property. However, according to Susan Cheever’s biography E.E. Cummings: A Life, when Mayor Robert Wagner found out…
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…this part 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…
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…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…
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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…(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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…the rest will be used for for-profit, high end, “trophy-class” commercial space – largely tech offices with amenities like roof decks and terraces for their tenants. Almost four years after…
Read More…study and report commissioner by East Village Community Coalition in 2008 prepared by Pratt. Another proposal to level the playing field between commercial tenants and landlords is the Small Business Jobs…
Read More…holding a raucous history from its previous tenants, while the facade remains a 1930s Art Deco beauty. The Greenwich Village Historic District Tour Map, and the Daytonian These are just…
Read More…in this neighborhood at the time. A prime example is 840 Broadway (pictured right), built for garment industry tenants between 1899 and 1901. Before clothing manufacturers clustered in the area…
Read More…designation report, 840 Broadway was constructed for garment industry tenants in 1899-1901. This 12-story, steel-frame Renaissance Revival style building was designed by Robert Maynicke, and is a prominent reminder of…
Read More…Their foundry was in nearby Chelsea, and No. 836 served as their showroom and office space. Other tenants would follow including garment related companies, as these would became prevelant in…
Read More…also originally an apartment hotel, albeit presumably intended for more middle-class residents than the intended tenants of 24 Fifth Avenue. It was built in 1928-29 and designed in what the…
Read More…estate in The Village, was purchased in 1825 by Jacob Shute, a mason, who lived on this street. He built this house the next year. His tenants here in the…
Read More…his life hunched over his contracts and leases”, with little interest in serving his tenants or the broader city. Listing of properties on East 5th Street under William B. Astor’s…
Read More…and modern amenities were added. As an afterthought, Coffin decided the make the interior open space of the block into a common garden for use by all of the tenants…
Read More…they can afford. The bill is fair, and allows the market to determine rents while protecting tenants from gouging and discourages the warehousing of commercial space. Without such action, we…
Read More…as most original attempt to build dignified, gracious and elegant houses for wealthy tenants, and it achieved instantaneous fame. This idea of unifying many townhouses behind one great facade was…
Read More…hall and share it with three other tenants, you know? Well, the great advantage of that was that my rent—you can’t believe this today, but my rent in those days…
Read More…a pencil drawing instead. According to Patch, Lichtenstein bought the five buildings as part of a $127 million deal. They wrote, “Dozens of tenants who lived in the buildings were…
Read More…property was used industrially as a bearing metals manufacturing firm from 1906-17, and A. Johnston & Son Iron Works occupied the space from 1953-75. The earliest known tenants at 488…
Read More… Fran has been working in housing and tenants rights since long before many of us were born, starting as a volunteer at the Lower East Side Tenant and Consumer Council….
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…Tenants, Artists, and Businessmen Association thwarted those efforts. However, with the purchase by NYU of 31 and 67 Third Avenue, the much-feared development occurred in spite of those efforts. Marilyn…
Read More…livelihoods. At 121 Second Ave., an illegal gas hookup had allegedly been installed to evade detection and provide the reported $6000 a month tenants upstairs with service. Two cenotaphs still stand…
Read More…West Fourth Streets was considered the center of Little Africa, the two sides of Sullivan Street between Broome and Spring Streets had 21 buildings with African-American tenants in 1870… With…
Read More…lot) to R-10 (allowing a floor area ratio of 10), encouraging out-of-scale development in this part of the East Village. Community efforts from organizations such as the Third Avenue Tenants,…
Read More…between Broome and Spring Streets, 21 buildings housed African America tenants, according to the designation report. As explained by Andrew Dolkart in his report on the South Village and according…
Read More…now serves as their Manhattan campus. “Since its completion, many commercial tenants have occupied various floors, including R. H. Macy’s, which produced flags and silk underwear here, the silversmith Graff,…
Read More…developments, residents often struggle to get needed repairs and maintenance by the agency. But GVSHP worked with the tenants association to use the complex’s landmark designation to apply additional pressure…
Read More…(SBJSA) is a bill that has been introduced in the NYC City Council that would give commercial tenants three specific rights: A minimum 10-year lease with the right to renewal,…
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….
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…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…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…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…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, which to this day…
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