Peter Zephyrin has rented out a number of apartments in this boarded-up complex in Queens.
Photo: J.C.Rice
Photo: J.C.Rice
[From article]
“If I give up now, I’m going to be on the street,” Johns said. “We are not trespassing — we were invited by someone who said he adverse possessed the building.”
Another 40-year-old resident, who declined to give his name, said, “For years, no one was maintaining the building. Now we’re here. We’re helping people in need.”
In the 1980s and ’90s, low-income artists and activists took over and rehabilitated dozens of unoccupied, rotting buildings in the East Village and Lower East Side. They sought legal ownership of their homes, but the city repeatedly tried to evict them — including one violent incident in 1995, when hundreds of cops in riot gear booted the squatters. The city finally granted ownership to 11 surviving squatter buildings in 2002.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/squatters-returning-to-nyc-renting-out-abandoned-apartments/
Squatter takes over, rents out unfinished apartment complex
New York Post
By Kate Briquelet
February 15, 2015 | 11:18am
Photo: J.C.Rice
[From article]
“If I give up now, I’m going to be on the street,” Johns said. “We are not trespassing — we were invited by someone who said he adverse possessed the building.”
Another 40-year-old resident, who declined to give his name, said, “For years, no one was maintaining the building. Now we’re here. We’re helping people in need.”
In the 1980s and ’90s, low-income artists and activists took over and rehabilitated dozens of unoccupied, rotting buildings in the East Village and Lower East Side. They sought legal ownership of their homes, but the city repeatedly tried to evict them — including one violent incident in 1995, when hundreds of cops in riot gear booted the squatters. The city finally granted ownership to 11 surviving squatter buildings in 2002.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/squatters-returning-to-nyc-renting-out-abandoned-apartments/
Squatter takes over, rents out unfinished apartment complex
New York Post
By Kate Briquelet
February 15, 2015 | 11:18am
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