tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post3698626273957506713..comments2024-03-29T08:18:11.731-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: I Am a Rent-Stabilized TenantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-35302731107832143842018-07-03T11:58:35.367-04:002018-07-03T11:58:35.367-04:00Lovely apartment. Interesting back story.Lovely apartment. Interesting back story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-89872770259973551632018-06-29T21:25:24.335-04:002018-06-29T21:25:24.335-04:00Dear Judy, thank you. thank you for sharing your ...Dear Judy, thank you. thank you for sharing your story with me! I have good memories of seeing you with your dog Johnny in the neighborhood. Susaniamarentstabilizedtenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061058869141853304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-79866316237252940782018-06-29T21:16:42.975-04:002018-06-29T21:16:42.975-04:00Dear Scuba Diva, thank you for this info! SusanDear Scuba Diva, thank you for this info! Susaniamarentstabilizedtenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061058869141853304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-59026732633606745052018-06-29T11:55:12.943-04:002018-06-29T11:55:12.943-04:00Beautiful apartment! It has great warmth & per...Beautiful apartment! It has great warmth & personality! <br /><br />I have a friend who has tub-in-kitchen (next to sink, as shown here), and with the toilet in a separate room at the other end of the apartment. The toilet HAD a pull-chain for a long time, but now has been "upgraded" to a tank toilet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-45761809201065456172018-06-29T10:50:28.084-04:002018-06-29T10:50:28.084-04:00This place looks almost identical to the one-bedro...This place looks almost identical to the one-bedroom stabilized apartment I lived in on E 11th St btwn A and B from '78 to '96. Tub in the kitchen. Same lay-out. Same big sink. I even had a pull-chain toilet in a cubicle out in the hall that I had to keep padlocked so the druggies didn't use it. Kind of a drag when I had to pee in the middle of the night, but I was young and willing to deal with the inconvenience. Fond memories and wild fun times despite the junkies, crackheads, hold-ups, muggings, break-ins, riots, and marauding skinheads. ha...MTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06878016401263275101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-36893136316829952642018-06-29T09:43:29.707-04:002018-06-29T09:43:29.707-04:00Thank you, Susan! for your rich photographic skill...Thank you, Susan! for your rich photographic skills documenting my home & for being a friend in our neighborly community for many years. The next to last last picture gives me a whole new view of this old house, Thanks again! <br />May the health, creativity & East Village love continue! JudyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405889062673083538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-10646830480500675462018-06-29T07:44:12.090-04:002018-06-29T07:44:12.090-04:00The bathroom-in-the-hallway setup she describes so...The bathroom-in-the-hallway setup she describes sounds like this building is a pre-law (pre-1860) tenement. Actually, the place I lived in on St. Mark's was an old law tenement, with four apartments per floor; two apartments had bathtubs, but I had a shower stall in the kitchen, suggesting that the bathtubs might have originally been shared. <br /><br />I had a water closet—as I do in this apartment—and when I first moved here there was still a pull-chain toilet. My place on St. Mark's was an old-law tenement, and the toilets were probably originally accessed from the outside hall; there were clearly some modifications done to my apartment that weren't visible on later, smoother Shitrock® renovations of neighboring apartments. There was also a painted-over mezzuzah mounted on the door jamb.<br /><br />If you go to the Tenement Museum on Orchard street, you can learn that that building, built in the 1860s, originally had "school sinks" in the outdoors courtyard—a.k.a. outhouses—as it was built previous to the housing law that would require indoor plumbing. This is why so many tenements on Orchard Street were boarded up and even bricked up because they were against code—until it became lucrative to renovate them.Scuba Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10326884503725331349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-45940656736565201982018-06-28T16:16:39.417-04:002018-06-28T16:16:39.417-04:00What a beautiful home!What a beautiful home!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-78617302205414076212018-06-28T14:10:32.714-04:002018-06-28T14:10:32.714-04:00How beautiful to live with simplicity and soul.How beautiful to live with simplicity and soul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-51140194405989097852018-06-28T13:45:28.033-04:002018-06-28T13:45:28.033-04:00wow this apartment is beautiful! i love her story ...wow this apartment is beautiful! i love her story too! thanks for another great installment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com