Lower East Side
Lay of the Landlords
Joe Heaphy |
Apartment building owners are dropping out of federal subsidy programs faster than you can say “market rents.”
Apartment building owners are dropping out of federal subsidy programs faster than you can say “market rents.”
Sometimes even a grave marker doesn’t last. In Newark, the bereaved honor their dead with spray paint, bottles, T-shirts and a determination to keep these fragile Rest In Peace memorials alive.
The charter school revolution has arrived, with promises of innovation and choice. But community groups say the business has room for only one idea of what kids need from their schools.
A book review of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance, by Christopher Mele, University of Minnesota Press, $19.95, 361 pages.
On the Lower East Side, a landlord threatens to give up government subsidies and the restrictions that go with them. Is it a real threat or a ploy to get more money? Maybe both.