Rally to Save Clinton-Hell's Kitchen Sat 11/15 NYC Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit TenantNet We apologize that this list has been dormant for the last two months. For those of you who have asked, the delay is on our end, not yours (that is, unless you have AOL whose mail system seems to break quite often.) As some of you know, Margarita Lopez won the City Council primary on the Lower East Side in a real squeaker. The papers reported that her opponent Judy Rapfogel had won, but an error was discovered in tha tabulation that gave another few hundred votes for Margarita, and the election. This was an important race as she takes the seat from that horror landlord lover Antonio Pagan who ran unsuccessfully for Borough Prez. If you're not aware, we also run another web site called Hell's Kitchen Online at http://hellskitchen.net. Take a look. We cover the Manhattan neighborhood called Clinton or Hell's Kitchen, covering the area 34th to 59th Streets, 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. The emphasis is more on the neighborhood than on tenant issues. In the last few months we've been concentrating on that web site and on very important development/housing issues in the HK neighborhood. That's one of the reasons we've we've let the TenantNet list slide a bit. Home comes first. So you thought the assault on Rent Regs was over. Think again. You know who -- the boogeymen -- your landlords -- can come after you in a variety of ways. If they can't completely get rid of tenant protections, they can pay politicans to zone you out of existence. Round Two -- except here we don't have Bruno or Pataki. If you haven't heard yet, Clinton/Hell's Kitchen is in danger. Real danger. Plans are afoot to rezone Eighth Avenue to allow massive skyscrapers on the west side of the street, invading our neighborhood and sidestreets. Other plans involve expanding the Javits Center up to 42nd Street, Yankee Stadium in southern Hell's Kitchen, the Coliseum redevelopment and rezoning the area between 10th and 12th Avenues, which could allow a Trump-like Riverside South. Progress is fine, but it needs to be rational and it needs to involve the Clinton/HK community -- not be imposed. Many community residents have recently come together to form the "Clinton Special District Coalition" (CSDC) to organize the community and to work with politicans and the Community Board. But right away, there was an Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotel at 300 West 48th Street that was partially demolished a few weeks ago. This was done illegally and is a triple-whammy for this neighborhood. 1. Local Law 19 requires a "Certificate of No Harassment" whenever SRO buildings are altered or demolished. See more info at http://tenant.net/Tengroup/Metcounc/Nov97/sro.html We're losing SRO's all over the place, and they're an important part if this neighborhood's housing. 2. The partially demolished SRO is also in the Special Clinton District and the owner had not obtained the required "Certificate of No Harassment" that's required for ALL buildings in the District. See http://hellskitchen.net/comm/csd/clspd.html 3. But most telling, this is on Eighth Avenue, where developers are lining up and salivating over how to tear down what they consider a "perimeter" and "expendable" neighborhood. See http://hellskitchen.net/develop/index.html CSDC is co-sponsoring a march and rally with councilmember Tom Duane this coming Saturday, November 15 at Noon, to enlighten the community of the coming dangers and to protest the city's refusal to enforce it's own laws when it comes to the destruction of housing. We will meet at the southwest corner of 51st and 8th Avenue and march to the endangered building (what's left of it) at 48th and 8th Avenue. Please be there to support your neighborhood and learn more about what dangers loom and how you can get involved. If you would like to distribute flyers, please let us know by emailing csdc@hellskitchen.net. We hope to see you Saturday. When: Saturday, November 15th at Noon Where: Meet at the SW corner of 51st Street and 8th Avenue. March down 8th Avenue to the endangered building at 48th Street and 8th Avenue. Hell's Kitchen Matters! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tenant Network for Residential Tenants TenantNet: http://tenant.net NYTenants Interactive: http://nytenant.net NYTenants Express: http://members.aol.com/nytenant email: tenant@tenant.net NYtenants Discussion List: email to majordomo@list.tenant.net and in the body of the message put "subscribe nytenants". 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