Stuyvesant Town - 647, 649, 651, 653, 655 E14

655 East 14th Street | also 649 East 14th Street, 651 East 14th Street, 653 East 14th Street | Stuyvesant Town | built 1945

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1952

    January

    Tenant protests force Metropolitan Life to let a Black family stay in Stuyvesant Town

    Metropolitan Life barred Black tenants from Stuyvesant Town. Mathematician Lee Lorch, a leader of the tenants' campaign against the policy, and his wife invited Hardine and Raphael Hendrix and their young son to live in their apartment at 651 East 14th Street. Lorch lost teaching jobs over his activism, and MetLife refused the Lorches' rent and moved to evict him and 34 other protesting tenants. In January 1952, as tenants barricaded themselves in and picketed, the company compromised: Lorch and two others left, and the Hendrixes stayed.

    Source: thaa.org

  2. 2015

    December

    Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge buy Stuyvesant Town for $5.45 billion

    Blackstone Group and Ivanhoe Cambridge purchase the 55-building complex from its creditors for $5.45 billion, agreeing to keep roughly 5,000 of its 11,250 apartments below market rent. The sale follows Tishman Speyer's 2010 default, then the largest failure of a commercial mortgage in U.S. history. The new owners take over a complex built on the site of the old Gas House District.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2019

    Stuyvesant Town installs the largest rooftop solar array on a US apartment complex

    Owners add solar panels across Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village's rooftops, creating what becomes the largest solar installation on any apartment complex in the country. The project extends a decades-long push to modernize the 80-acre superblock development, whose towers sit independent of Manhattan's street grid. The panels cover buildings first occupied in 1947 by World War II veterans and their families.

    Source: Wikipedia

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