• Tomorrow we take another stand against evictions, united as workers and tenants. Our collective power is undeniable. 11am at 183 Centre Street #savejingfong #stopevictions #downwithlandlords
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    Tomorrow we take another stand against evictions, united as workers and tenants. Our collective power is undeniable. 11am at 183 Centre Street #savejingfong #stopevictions #downwithlandlords
  • Another day in the struggle. 12 months of no relief. It only escalates from here. Tenants have no choice but to fight for each other. There is real #cancelrent legislation on the table. The only thing blocking it is greed. #tenantpower #wekeepussafe #stopevictions #cancelrent #rentstrike #taxtherich #housingisahumanright #housingjusticeforall
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    Another day in the struggle. 12 months of no relief. It only escalates from here. Tenants have no choice but to fight for each other. There is real #cancelrent legislation on the table. The only thing blocking it is greed. #tenantpower #wekeepussafe #stopevictions #cancelrent #rentstrike #taxtherich #housingisahumanright #housingjusticeforall
  • Action today at @briankavanaghny’s apartment! If you didn’t make it today you can shoot him a text at (917) 670-2608 ⚡️😡 remind him that 70% of New Yorkers rent! 🌞Love to the housing crew, it’s our organizing anniversary for #cancelrent. Tragic and despicable as this is, take a moment to celebrate this community that has assembled in the face of a crisis. 💘This is love and solidarity and let’s keep this energy ROLLING for our big action tomorrow at HOUSING COURT 141 LIVINGSTON BK! @housingjustice4all is also doing actions throughout the city and politician home visits so please participate! ⚠️Evictions will start happening tomorrow if we do not.⚠️ #cancelrent #stopevictions #tenantpower #rentstrike #evictionmoratorium #nolandlords #nocops #allevictionshavetostop #housingjustice #housingjusticeisracialjustice #fuckyoureviction
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    Action today at @briankavanaghny’s apartment! If you didn’t make it today you can shoot him a text at (917) 670-2608 ⚡️😡 remind him that 70% of New Yorkers rent! 🌞Love to the housing crew, it’s our organizing anniversary for #cancelrent. Tragic and despicable as this is, take a moment to celebrate this community that has assembled in the face of a crisis. 💘This is love and solidarity and let’s keep this energy ROLLING for our big action tomorrow at HOUSING COURT 141 LIVINGSTON BK! @housingjustice4all is also doing actions throughout the city and politician home visits so please participate! ⚠️Evictions will start happening tomorrow if we do not.⚠️ #cancelrent #stopevictions #tenantpower #rentstrike #evictionmoratorium #nolandlords #nocops #allevictionshavetostop #housingjustice #housingjusticeisracialjustice #fuckyoureviction
  • The state is trying to bail out landlords. 😒 Eviction courts will try to reopen March 1. But they don’t know how strong our solidarity is. 1️⃣ tomorrow: picket 🪧 the politician who’s trying to crush the tenants movement. 👎State Senator Kavanagh, *who reps Lower Manhattan and North Brooklyn*, where **70%**of his constituents are renters🙀, is trying to push a bill real estate lobbyists call “the end of cancel rent” 😡 no mister. INTO THE STREETS! 🌪WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN 2️⃣ breathtaking actions back to back... baby we are BACK at Livingston you already know what time it is. 🔥SHUT DOWN EVICTION COURT our struggle all summer and fall led us to a victory. They keep shutting down and extending these moratorium because of us. We actually did that!! But on March 1 the courts plan to start moving eviction cases. Let’s shut them down. 🥁 Let’s link up IRL 👯‍♂️ tomorrow and Monday at these critical housing actions with @brooklynevictiondefense @crownheightstenantunion @met_council @fttenantunion @cosechanyc @nycdsa @nycdsa_housing @pslweb & your crew. We have to escalate🌋
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    The state is trying to bail out landlords. 😒 Eviction courts will try to reopen March 1. But they don’t know how strong our solidarity is. 1️⃣ tomorrow: picket 🪧 the politician who’s trying to crush the tenants movement. 👎State Senator Kavanagh, *who reps Lower Manhattan and North Brooklyn*, where **70%**of his constituents are renters🙀, is trying to push a bill real estate lobbyists call “the end of cancel rent” 😡 no mister. INTO THE STREETS! 🌪WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN 2️⃣ breathtaking actions back to back... baby we are BACK at Livingston you already know what time it is. 🔥SHUT DOWN EVICTION COURT our struggle all summer and fall led us to a victory. They keep shutting down and extending these moratorium because of us. We actually did that!! But on March 1 the courts plan to start moving eviction cases. Let’s shut them down. 🥁 Let’s link up IRL 👯‍♂️ tomorrow and Monday at these critical housing actions with @brooklynevictiondefense @crownheightstenantunion @met_council @fttenantunion @cosechanyc @nycdsa @nycdsa_housing @pslweb & your crew. We have to escalate🌋
  • Tomorrow at 11am, tune in to the first episode of a series of segments hosted by Art Against Displacement on @montezpressradio. 🖤📻🌀Andreas speaks with Ben and Nico from @brooklynevictiondefense, a coalition of organizations and individuals in solidarity with tenants facing eviction, harassment, and housing insecurity. They discuss rent striking, building tenants associations, tenants unions, eviction blockades, and what might happen after the eviction moratorium ends on May 1st. 👉👉👉RELEVANT: TODAY 2/26 IS THE DEADLINE TO FILL OUT A HARDSHIP FORM THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM EVICTION THRU MAY 1, @met_council will help you. Linked in bio ✍️ 🌱and please enjoy this beautiful zine @brooklynevictiondefense made last fall with @abolitionlibrarycommons & some illustrations from our #cancelrentdrawingchallenge. #cancelrent bb is almost 1 year old 🎂 you’re all grown up and ready to roll 🤠catch you in the airways and see you in the streets 🥁
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    Tomorrow at 11am, tune in to the first episode of a series of segments hosted by Art Against Displacement on @montezpressradio. 🖤📻🌀Andreas speaks with Ben and Nico from @brooklynevictiondefense, a coalition of organizations and individuals in solidarity with tenants facing eviction, harassment, and housing insecurity. They discuss rent striking, building tenants associations, tenants unions, eviction blockades, and what might happen after the eviction moratorium ends on May 1st. 👉👉👉RELEVANT: TODAY 2/26 IS THE DEADLINE TO FILL OUT A HARDSHIP FORM THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM EVICTION THRU MAY 1, @met_council will help you. Linked in bio ✍️ 🌱and please enjoy this beautiful zine @brooklynevictiondefense made last fall with @abolitionlibrarycommons & some illustrations from our #cancelrentdrawingchallenge. #cancelrent bb is almost 1 year old 🎂 you’re all grown up and ready to roll 🤠catch you in the airways and see you in the streets 🥁
  • Three renderings for 82 Walker St by @ryanoskin, @philippoon_nyc, and Flora. Notes from Ryan: My proposal for 82 Walker Street rotates between overview, market rate building (most likely no affordable units), and with the #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan. The red residential structure is based off LOT-EK’s Small Lot_Big Ideas renderings they created for NYC HPD in 2019. The building would include at least 50% truly affordable housing (based on *local* AMI, not the usual city wide AMI that includes affluent suburbs). On the roof, a common space with roof garden and solar panels. Instead of traditional building materials, industrial shipping containers would be retrofitted for a new kind of sustainable building. We need to hold our new city council members and upcoming mayor (elections are coming up!) accountable for producing truly affordable housing that listens to existing communities and stops gentrification + displacement! Support and vote for @chrismartenyc if you live in District 1!! Working across three languages, the CWG Rezoning Plan was completed in 2014 with the participation of over fifty community organizations. Despite years of organizing, the De Blasio administration has refused to enact the CWG Rezoning Plan that has been developed by and for the Chinatown and Lower East Side community. In a recent court battle, the city has allowed four more luxury towers to be built along the Lower East Side waterfront. Learn more about the details of this plan online, call your City representatives and urge them to support this community-led plan, and join other activists to help spread the word and support the plan! 華埠工作小組土地規劃計劃以三種語言工作，于2014年完成，參與的社區組織達50多個。盡管經過多年的組織工作，白思豪政府仍然拒絕實施這一由華埠和下東區社區組織制定的計畫。在最近的一場訴訟中，市政府批准在下東區河濱建造四座高級塔樓。您可以在網上了解更多關於這個計劃的細節，打電話給您的市議會代表、敦促他們支持這個社區主導的計畫，加入我們的社區行動，幫助宣傳和支持這個計劃。 Trabajando a través de tres lenguajes, el Plan de Rezonificación del CWG fue completado en el 2014 con la participación de mas de cincuenta organizaciones comunitarias...✍️
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    Three renderings for 82 Walker St by @ryanoskin, @philippoon_nyc, and Flora. Notes from Ryan: My proposal for 82 Walker Street rotates between overview, market rate building (most likely no affordable units), and with the #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan. The red residential structure is based off LOT-EK’s Small Lot_Big Ideas renderings they created for NYC HPD in 2019. The building would include at least 50% truly affordable housing (based on *local* AMI, not the usual city wide AMI that includes affluent suburbs). On the roof, a common space with roof garden and solar panels. Instead of traditional building materials, industrial shipping containers would be retrofitted for a new kind of sustainable building. We need to hold our new city council members and upcoming mayor (elections are coming up!) accountable for producing truly affordable housing that listens to existing communities and stops gentrification + displacement! Support and vote for @chrismartenyc if you live in District 1!! Working across three languages, the CWG Rezoning Plan was completed in 2014 with the participation of over fifty community organizations. Despite years of organizing, the De Blasio administration has refused to enact the CWG Rezoning Plan that has been developed by and for the Chinatown and Lower East Side community. In a recent court battle, the city has allowed four more luxury towers to be built along the Lower East Side waterfront. Learn more about the details of this plan online, call your City representatives and urge them to support this community-led plan, and join other activists to help spread the word and support the plan! 華埠工作小組土地規劃計劃以三種語言工作，于2014年完成，參與的社區組織達50多個。盡管經過多年的組織工作，白思豪政府仍然拒絕實施這一由華埠和下東區社區組織制定的計畫。在最近的一場訴訟中，市政府批准在下東區河濱建造四座高級塔樓。您可以在網上了解更多關於這個計劃的細節，打電話給您的市議會代表、敦促他們支持這個社區主導的計畫，加入我們的社區行動，幫助宣傳和支持這個計劃。 Trabajando a través de tres lenguajes, el Plan de Rezonificación del CWG fue completado en el 2014 con la participación de mas de cincuenta organizaciones comunitarias...✍️
  • Here are 2 renderings for 230 Cherry Street, exploring what the #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan could produce. What is not pictured is the affordability percentage guaranteed in new construction: in this zone (sub district D) 55% of units must be designated permanently affordable for families making less than 40k according to the plan. These renderings don’t just picture housing, but other creative community land uses for recreation. Designs by Jennifer Siqueira & @davidtasman @citygroupnyc, a Lower East Side based architecture and planning collective, invited architects and artists to create images in support of the plan. The renderings showcase the balanced approach to urban planning that would be guaranteed—increased availability of affordable housing is provided by development that respects the context already established by existing building heights and landscape. Illustrated below are CWG-based redevelopment for nine sites within the Special District defined by the Plan, including Chinatown’s historic center, its connection to the Bowery, existing NYCHA properties, and along the East River Waterfront. 位於下東區的建築和城市規劃團體Citygroup邀請了建築師及藝術家通過創作支持本計畫。這些渲染圖呈現了一種平衡的城市規劃方式，開發必須尊重，並提供更多的可負擔住房。以下是以華埠工作小組計畫為基礎，在規劃所定義的特殊區域內的9個不同地點的再發展計畫，包括傳統的華埠中心、與包厘街的關係、現存的NYCHA公共住房以及東河河濱。 Citygroup, un colectivo de arquitectura y planeación basado en el Lower East Side, invito a arquitectos y artistas a crear imágenes en apoyo del plan. Estas representaciones demuestran el enfoque de planeamiento urbano balanceado que se garantizaría—el incremento de disponibilidad de viviendas económicas es hecho disponible por desarrollos que respetan el contexto ya establecido por la altura de edificios existentes y el paisaje. Abajo están ilustrados proyectos de reurbanización por el CWG de nueve sitios dentro del Distrito Especial definido por el Plan, incluyendo el centro histórico de Chinatown, su conexión con el Bowery, propiedades existentes del NYCHA, y la orilla frente al mar del East River.
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    Here are 2 renderings for 230 Cherry Street, exploring what the #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan could produce. What is not pictured is the affordability percentage guaranteed in new construction: in this zone (sub district D) 55% of units must be designated permanently affordable for families making less than 40k according to the plan. These renderings don’t just picture housing, but other creative community land uses for recreation. Designs by Jennifer Siqueira & @davidtasman @citygroupnyc, a Lower East Side based architecture and planning collective, invited architects and artists to create images in support of the plan. The renderings showcase the balanced approach to urban planning that would be guaranteed—increased availability of affordable housing is provided by development that respects the context already established by existing building heights and landscape. Illustrated below are CWG-based redevelopment for nine sites within the Special District defined by the Plan, including Chinatown’s historic center, its connection to the Bowery, existing NYCHA properties, and along the East River Waterfront. 位於下東區的建築和城市規劃團體Citygroup邀請了建築師及藝術家通過創作支持本計畫。這些渲染圖呈現了一種平衡的城市規劃方式，開發必須尊重，並提供更多的可負擔住房。以下是以華埠工作小組計畫為基礎，在規劃所定義的特殊區域內的9個不同地點的再發展計畫，包括傳統的華埠中心、與包厘街的關係、現存的NYCHA公共住房以及東河河濱。 Citygroup, un colectivo de arquitectura y planeación basado en el Lower East Side, invito a arquitectos y artistas a crear imágenes en apoyo del plan. Estas representaciones demuestran el enfoque de planeamiento urbano balanceado que se garantizaría—el incremento de disponibilidad de viviendas económicas es hecho disponible por desarrollos que respetan el contexto ya establecido por la altura de edificios existentes y el paisaje. Abajo están ilustrados proyectos de reurbanización por el CWG de nueve sitios dentro del Distrito Especial definido por el Plan, incluyendo el centro histórico de Chinatown, su conexión con el Bowery, propiedades existentes del NYCHA, y la orilla frente al mar del East River.
  • We are proud to share the results of our open call with @citygroupnyc and #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan. Architects and artists were asked to visualize a plan for each of 9 sites located around the neighborhood that represent different sub-districts. The bulk rendering shows how much the height limitations could help stop rampant over-development. Two visualizations show the zoning “maxed out” aka as big as allowed, as well as an alternative based on the artists’ imaginings. Pictured are 2 submissions for 59 Henry Street by @soft__firm & @ajpartemel Notes from AJ on the design: *Current Zoning: Full residential tower, 69 units, 3.44 FAR, all glass, 150’ *CWG Developer, Mixed use, 1 floor Commercial (.68 FAR), total 4 FAR, 78’ *Nonmarket: neighborhood theater/banquet hall, light manufacturing (jewelry or textiles), community amenities (gym and baths), affordable housing for new immigrants, 2.88 FAR, 85’ The Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan proposes a path for future development that increases affordable housing, community amenities, and neighborhood-oriented small business while avoiding the displacement, economic segregation, and loss of character that has followed rampant real estate speculation in other neighborhoods of New York. Gentrification and other processes of displacement are already infiltrating Chinatown and the Lower East Side in the form of developments like One Manhattan Square. The CWG Plan honors New York City’s rich immigrant history and the contributions that waves of immigrants have made and continue to make to New York City’s economy and culture. Community-led rezoning is a strategy for preserving one of the last affordable neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan. 華埠工作小組 (CWG) 土地規劃計劃提出了一條未來發展的道路，旨在增加可負擔住房、社區設施和服務社區的小型企業，避免複製紐約許多社區出現的房地產投機、逼遷、經濟隔離和社區特色流失等問題。士紳化、貴族化、逼遷等問題在華埠和下東區已經十分猖獗，包括曼哈頓一號廣場等地產開發項目。華埠工作小組的規劃方案尊重紐約豐富的移民歷史，以及移民對城市經濟和文化做出的貢獻。由社區主导的規劃方案是一種保護曼哈顿下城所剩無幾的可負擔社区的策略。 El Plan de Rezonificación del Grupo Trabajador de Chinatown (CWG)...✍️
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    We are proud to share the results of our open call with @citygroupnyc and #ChinatownWorkingGroup plan. Architects and artists were asked to visualize a plan for each of 9 sites located around the neighborhood that represent different sub-districts. The bulk rendering shows how much the height limitations could help stop rampant over-development. Two visualizations show the zoning “maxed out” aka as big as allowed, as well as an alternative based on the artists’ imaginings. Pictured are 2 submissions for 59 Henry Street by @soft__firm & @ajpartemel Notes from AJ on the design: *Current Zoning: Full residential tower, 69 units, 3.44 FAR, all glass, 150’ *CWG Developer, Mixed use, 1 floor Commercial (.68 FAR), total 4 FAR, 78’ *Nonmarket: neighborhood theater/banquet hall, light manufacturing (jewelry or textiles), community amenities (gym and baths), affordable housing for new immigrants, 2.88 FAR, 85’ The Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan proposes a path for future development that increases affordable housing, community amenities, and neighborhood-oriented small business while avoiding the displacement, economic segregation, and loss of character that has followed rampant real estate speculation in other neighborhoods of New York. Gentrification and other processes of displacement are already infiltrating Chinatown and the Lower East Side in the form of developments like One Manhattan Square. The CWG Plan honors New York City’s rich immigrant history and the contributions that waves of immigrants have made and continue to make to New York City’s economy and culture. Community-led rezoning is a strategy for preserving one of the last affordable neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan. 華埠工作小組 (CWG) 土地規劃計劃提出了一條未來發展的道路，旨在增加可負擔住房、社區設施和服務社區的小型企業，避免複製紐約許多社區出現的房地產投機、逼遷、經濟隔離和社區特色流失等問題。士紳化、貴族化、逼遷等問題在華埠和下東區已經十分猖獗，包括曼哈頓一號廣場等地產開發項目。華埠工作小組的規劃方案尊重紐約豐富的移民歷史，以及移民對城市經濟和文化做出的貢獻。由社區主导的規劃方案是一種保護曼哈顿下城所剩無幾的可負擔社区的策略。 El Plan de Rezonificación del Grupo Trabajador de Chinatown (CWG)...✍️
  • Statement from the workers of the 318 Restaurant Union who oppose the closing of beloved Jing Fong restaurant @jingfongny due to the greed of Chinatown landlord Jonathan Chu (Co-chair of the @mocanyc board). Join us to stand in solidarity with the workers on Tuesday March 2 at 11am at 193 Centre St. as we amplify their demand of calling on Jing Fong management and Jonathan Chu to reach an agreement that doesn’t involve the displacement of a Chinatown institution. graphics designed by @youth_against_displacement with archival images by #CorkyLee
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    Statement from the workers of the 318 Restaurant Union who oppose the closing of beloved Jing Fong restaurant @jingfongny due to the greed of Chinatown landlord Jonathan Chu (Co-chair of the @mocanyc board). Join us to stand in solidarity with the workers on Tuesday March 2 at 11am at 193 Centre St. as we amplify their demand of calling on Jing Fong management and Jonathan Chu to reach an agreement that doesn’t involve the displacement of a Chinatown institution. graphics designed by @youth_against_displacement with archival images by #CorkyLee