History

Description: Flyer for a Paint-In at the apartment of squatter Juantia Kimble. Date: May 1970 Creator: Unknown Original Format: Document,

Description: A tenant testifies on housing conditions at the People’s Court Housing Crimes Trial, organized jointly by Met Council on

Description: Letter from Jane Benedict to Marvin Walsh, Vice President of Trailways, imforming him of Met Council on Housing’s decision

Description: Poster advertising a special meeting at the West Side branch of Met Council on Housing on current organizing efforts.

Description: Tenants of 533 5th Street pose in front of their building during a rent strike. Date: [1984] Creator: Becket

Description: A tenant demands the renewal of the rent laws in 1997. Date: [1997] Creator: Unknown Original Format: Black and

Description: Comic in support of the Flynn-Dearie Tenant Protection Act. The comic represents the need for unity among tenant organizations

Description: Tenants demonstrate in support of the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which extended rent stabilization to most of the apartments

Description: Poster demanding the repeal of changes to the rent regulation system enacted during the early 1970s, including Vacancy Decontrol,

Description: Demonstration in front of 640 Riverside Drive, which had approximately 60 vacant apartments. Date: Jul 1989 Creator: Unknown Original Format:

Description: English and Spanish language posters for the People’s Court Housing Crimes Trial. The poster was also produced in Chinese.

Description: Eviction of squatters from an occupied co-op building at 90th St and Columbus Ave. Date: Feb 26, 1970 Creator:

Description: Publication by the Metropolitan Council on Housing based on their first vacant land survey. Met Council on Housing identified

  Description: Flyer from the Washington Square Neighbors on the progress of the fight against the Washington Square Southeast urban

Description: Met Council on Housing members pose with a “Stop All Evictions” banner. Date: Jun 1989 Creator: Barry Hall Original

Description: Met Council on Housing delegation to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which filled two railway

Description: Postcard opposing rent decontrol sent to council members in Albany leading up to Tenant Lobby Day on May 12,

Description: Tenants demonstrate in front of Edward Koch’s campaign headquaters on East 42nd St. Ed Koch’s mayoralty was notable for

Description: The cover of a Yorkville Save Our Homes publication documenting the destruction of neighborhoods during urban renewal. Homes slated

  Description: Bess Stevenson with a megaphone. Date: Undated Creator: Unknown Original Format: Black and White photograph, 5 x 8

Description: Protesters at a Rent Guidelines Board hearing, Police Plaza Auditorium. Date: Jun 25, 1984 Creator: Becket Logan Original Format:

Description: Bess Stevenson speaks at a rent strike meeting at the Church of the Holy Name. Date: Apr 4, 1981

Description: At the age of 93, Jane Wood held a sleep-in in the lobby of her building to hasten an

Description: Esther Rand’s memorial brochure. Date: Jul 29, 1981 Creator: Unknown Original Format: Black and White photocopy,  5.5 x 8.5