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    Rent Stabilization: Preserving Low and Middle-Income Housing

    CityLaw  •  Cover Article by Steve Cohen
    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins/CityLaw

    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins/CityLaw

    Rent regulation is not a new issue for New York City. But the headlines in June 2015 were far larger and the reactions more contentious than at any time in recent memory. For the first time in its 46-year history, the Rent Guidelines Board decided that there would be no increase in rents for one-year renewals on rent-stabilized apartments; it also limited increases on two year renewals to two-percent. Not surprisingly, tenants hailed the decision and landlords decried it.

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    Tags : 421-a, affordable housing, Department of City Planning, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Rent Guidelines Board, rent regulation
    Date: 09/24/2015
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    Hearing held on former automat

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    Designation hearing held on one of the last remaining H&H automat structures in New York. Landmarks held a well-attended public hearing June 27, 2006 on the Horn and Hardart Building at 2710 Broadway, a former automat built in 1930 by the architecture firm F.P. Platt and Brothers. Currently home to a Rite- Aid drugstore, much of the building’s signature ornamentation is covered with signs. The flagship Horn and Hardart, or “H&H”, as they were known, at West 57th Street was recently demolished, leaving the 2710 Broadway branch as one of the few examples left.

    The phenomenon of the automat started in Philadelphia around the turn of the century, and the last one closed in 1991. Beacons of modernism, customers bought food and beverages by inserting coins into vending machines, while restaurant staff worked out of sight.

    The Horn and Hardart building possesses an Art Deco facade, with terra cotta in a rare gold-luster glaze. Rite-Aid planned to alter the facade, but an effort spearheaded by Michael Gotlin convinced it to cover the facade instead. Gotlin addressed Landmarks at the hearing. Other speakers included Steve Stallman, who maintains a website devoted to automats, who spoke of the automats egalitarian nature, and their function as a place where writers and artists could linger over an inexpensive meal. Stallman also called the hearing “tragic,” since it was only held after the loss of the West 57th Street branch. (more…)

    Tags : 2710 Broadway, F.P. Platt and Brothers, H&H automat, Horn and Hardart Building
    Date: 07/15/2006
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