BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Fed-up East Village tenants of real estate mogul Sonny Tran led a boisterous band of activists to Midtown, where they loudly…
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BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Last Tuesday night, Jan. 30, as light snow fell, there was what one might call a sort of dancing “s— show”…
The Cooper Square Committee has set up a GoFundMe campaign for the tenants displaced from 642 E. 14th St. by a vacate order after next-door…
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Susan Ingraham wept as she described the incalculable loss of being forced to leave her rent-stabilized East Village apartment, where she…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | East Village tenants of landlord Sonny Tran are calling on him to ensure that construction in their buildings is safe,…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | It was a tour of housing — not haunted houses — but tenants said their living conditions and what their…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Meet you by the purple bench. Friends and comrades of Frances Goldin, the legendary Lower East Side housing activist-turned-literary agent, gathered…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | A memorial, preceded by a walking tour, will be held for housing and social-justice activist Harriet Putterman on Sun., Oct.…
Tenants took over a block of E. Fifth St. on Wednesday morning, calling out landlords at two tenements for perpetrating what they called “construction as…