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Organizing Lower East Side tenants since 1959. Proud victors against Robert Moses' plan to destroy our community. Still building a tenant movement today!
61 East 4th Street, NYC
Joined September 2011
New York came close to launching a public bank in 1975. With today’s powerful movement of community groups, labor, and credit unions — it’s time to finish what was started. This new @jacobin piece tells the story and why it matters now: https://t.co/V5gs5FICW2
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In 1975, Wall Street declared war on New York, sending the city into a fiscal crisis. A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the...
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Let's pass COPA in 2025! Rally on Thursday, Dec 4 noon City Hall, directly across from 250 Broadway
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Let's pass COPA before the end of the year! Sign👉 https://t.co/5UwTpVKM1W
TY to @medasf for this powerful message: COPA has worked in San Francisco to protect affordable housing, and it will work in NYC! NYers, call your Council Members and Speaker Adrienne Adams TODAY. Tell them to PASS INTRO 902, the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act.
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Thrilled to be hosting a book talk with @tracyrosenthal_, co-author of "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis." Tickets are sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP: https://t.co/Fa8zLP4NJv
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Join us for our annual holiday party on Thurs, Dec 11th, 6-8 PM at the Harriet Putterman Center at Cooper Square (61 E 4th Street, #3W). The theme is “Joy As Liberation: Celebrating 2025 Tenant Wins.” Potluck, raffle, karaoke, celebrate! RSVP: https://t.co/pGYF1gigsc
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It's crunch time for COPA! The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is close to passing in the NYC Council. We need your help to ensure the bill passes this year. Click to email your City Council Member & Speaker Adams: https://t.co/5UwTpVKeco
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New @EnvDefenseFund blog shares a roadmap to address the need for more affordable and climate-resilient housing in NYC. Adopting such policies will ensure the City can grow in a safe and equitable way for future generations. Learn more:
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New York City faces a twin crisis: housing that is increasingly unaffordable, unavailable and unsafe, and climate impacts—like flooding, sea level rise and extreme heat—that are growing more frequent...
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Thank you, @ebottcher, for championing #COPA and standing up for community and tenant ownership! @CMErikBottcher
“This is becoming a city where only the wealthy & well-connected can survive. If we’re going to maintain the dream of NYC’s diversity, we need tools to promote tenant ownership—one of the greatest forms of affordable housing.” #COPA champion CM Bottcher💪
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I am so excited to be speaking at Cooper Square, a beacon of non-market, permanently affordable housing in my own hometown ❤️
Thrilled to be hosting a book talk with @tracyrosenthal_, co-author of "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis." Tickets are sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP: https://t.co/Fa8zLP4NJv
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@tracyrosenthal_ @haymarketbooks @LATenantsUnion @taraghuveer @KCTenants "Rosenthal and Vilchis give us precise language for what we’re up against and equip us with deeply human stories that demonstrate how tenants might change our housing system and the world—if we take our own power seriously.” -- @taraghuveer of @KCTenants On sale @haymarketbooks
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@tracyrosenthal_ @haymarketbooks @LATenantsUnion @taraghuveer of @KCTenants calls the book “an essential primer on rent and the collective struggle required to liberate ourselves from its grasp on our lives."
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Thrilled to be hosting a book talk with @tracyrosenthal_, co-author of "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis." Tickets are sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP: https://t.co/Fa8zLP4NJv
@haymarketbooks @LATenantsUnion
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Concerned about recent ICE activity impacting tenant organizing and vulnerable communities? Join TakeRoot Justice attorneys on Tues, Nov 18, at 6:30pm to learn about asserting your rights, assessing risk, and protecting yourself & others. RSVP at https://t.co/swDWZdS38o
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NY1 Weekends on 1 with Rocco Vertuccio invited us on to discuss our latest data tool to help tenants research possible lead risk in their buildings. Try out the tool: https://t.co/vwMyHfGZjo
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Great day at the LES Arts & Culture Open House! 💛 We talked with neighbors about lead safety, our new lead map, housing rights, LES history, and campaigns like ending apartment warehousing + Housing Justice for All
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Great article in @CityLimitsNews featuring our new interactive map tool, just in time for lead poisoning prevention week!
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"Education around lead, and especially lead paint hazards, is something that still is really necessary," said housing advocate Brandon Kielbasa. "People think of it as something that's been dealt...
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New York continues to fall short in protecting children against childhood lead poisoning. This is unacceptable. Every child deserves a safe, healthy home. It's time for stronger laws, stricter enforcement, and investments in prevention. #leadpoisoningpreventionweek #nyccelp
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With our new online map, you can easily find out if you're likely at risk for lead exposure in your home. But don't stop there: get involved with Lead Dust Free NYC! 👇 https://t.co/vwMyHfGZjo
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NEW: Online map helps you check if your building likely has lead paint. With this new tool, more New Yorkers will know if you're likely at risk for lead exposure in your home. But don't stop there: get involved with Lead Dust Free NYC! 👇 https://t.co/vwMyHfGZjo
@BetaNYC
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We’re w/ NY tenants representing the Lower East Side as we plan for our upcoming year!
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