Word: landlords
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...record store is failing, and Sikhulu Shange could plausibly assign blame to any number of culprits. Vendors hawk bootlegged CDs on sidewalk tables outside the Record Shack, which he has run for 36 years on Harlem's 125th Street. Websites offering pirated MP3s cut into his profits. And his landlord has been trying to evict him for more than a year. But Shange, 66, reserves his deepest anger for a new city plan that he believes will strip Harlem of its soul. "Working people are getting packaged to get dumped in the sewer," he says. "If the change takes place...
...Dehydrated, delirious, with bone-deep pressure sores all over his back and rear end, he was the lone city-dweller's living nightmare: no one knew for days that he had was injured, until, finally, a friend who hadn't heard from him in a while called Sandy's landlord to check...
...There are over 12 months to go until this lease expires, and anything can happen.” Some small business owners in the Square sympathized with the situation. While Jon Olinto, who owns b.good at 24 Dunster St., had high praise for the University as a landlord, he said that he has not yet had to work with Harvard to renew a lease. “We have 13 more years until we have that discussion,” he said. “We’re just getting rolling.” —Staff writer...
...provide for people who had used up their heatingfunds. Several councillors said they were concerned that people who rent homes and receive LIHEAP funds might not have access to efficient energy use methods, which might contribute to LIHEAP clients running out of fuel. “Typically, a landlord doesn’t have much incentive to make a property more energy efficient, because they don’t pay utilities,” said Councillor Henrietta J. Davis. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human services, said that the city conducts outreach efforts with landlords, renters...
...other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had a team of artisans reproduce the ensemble for the Venice Biennale. Set in a new context, as they are again at the Guggenheim, the figures took on a new meaning. They became artifacts of a bygone communist order and the lost power of its coercive spectacles...