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The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] A housing shortage caused by World War I had exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to support the war effort.
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919. A rent strike, sometimes known as a tenants strike or a renters strike, is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants agree to collectively withhold paying some or all of their rent to their landlords en masse until demands are met.
A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for Black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination.
Jesse Gray was born on May 14, 1923, [1] near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.He came to New York City and was a tailor and a member of the National Maritime Union in the 1940s. [2]He organized protests of tenants against conditions in Harlem's slum areas in the 1950s.
East Harlem: 6 9 and 18 749 October 31, 1965: Corsi Houses: East Harlem: 1 16 171 November 30, 1973: Senior-Only Housing De Hostos Apartments: Upper West Side: 1 22 219 February 28, 1969: Drew Hamilton Houses: Harlem: 5 21 1,207 September 30, 1965: Dyckman Houses: Inwood: 7 14 and 15 1,167 April 25, 1951: East River Houses: East Harlem: 10 6 ...
Under the party, the rent strike spread to Brooklyn and Harlem; tenants of Newark, New Jersey, also sent a delegation to discuss organizing their own strike. [5] Sympathy strikes were organized in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Manhattans Upper East Side and Upper West Side. [10] [4] Tenants were organized in Italian as well as Jewish ...
The Afro-American Realty Company bought and leased property in Harlem neighborhoods never until then "invaded" by Black tenants, occasioning near panic among neighboring owners. [10] The New York Herald wrote: An untoward circumstance has been injected into the private dwelling market in the vicinity of 133rd and 134th Streets.
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Greater Harlem highlighted.Harlem proper is the neighborhood in the center. Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan.The three neighborhoods comprising the greater Harlem area—West, Central, and East Harlem—stretch from the Harlem River and East River to the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington ...