(Photo: Nicole Disser)
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Notorious East Village Landlord Uses Street Art to Paint a Prettier Picture
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You Can Bank On the Chase Building at St. Marks and 2nd Being Demolished
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St. Marks is now bereft of the Sock Man and soon Trash and Vaudeville, and now it looks like the Chase bank building at 130 Second Avenue will also be a goner. The branch was cleared for demolition Friday, leaving us to wonder what will replace it.
East Village Tenants Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ to Alleged Predatory Landlord
Karen Platt’s East Village building, 522 East 5th Street (Photo: Nicole Disser)
Karen Platt has been channeling her frustrations through the satisfying scrape of chalk across concrete. After years of living with dust, noise, and health hazards caused by construction, repeated and seemingly relentless service cut-offs, and what she says are intentional moves by her landlord to clear her (and other rent-regulated tenants like her) out of her longtime home at 522 East 5th Street in the East Village, Platt’s sidewalk messages reveal she has reached a breaking point: “Lack of services is harassment” and “Enough is Enough.”
As Platt explained to B+B, since Icon Realty Management bought her building, things took a turn for the miserable. “I’ve lived in New York my whole life and I’ve never, ever been treated like this,” she said.
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