{"id":2116,"date":"2007-02-16T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/a_man_a_plan_a_five-story_tenement_building_the_new_economakis_of_the_east_village.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:00:24","slug":"a_man_a_plan_a_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/a_man_a_plan_a_1.html","title":{"rendered":"A Man, A Plan, A Five-Story Tenement Building: The New Economakis Of The East Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Latter-Day Vanderbilts<\/a> trying to turn an entire East Village building into their own private five-story, 15-apartment, 60-room building — or, possibly, as a ruse to evict undermarket rent-stabilized tenants — has won an appeals court ruling to go ahead with the dream<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The state Appellate Division has given Alistair and Catherine Economakis the green light to go ahead with eviction proceedings to boot the remaining low-income tenants from their five-story apartment building at 47 E. 3rd St.<\/p>\n

“I’m disappointed,” said David Pultz, who has lived in his $625-a-month one-bedroom apartment since 1978. “My fear is I won’t be able to live in the city anymore.”<\/p>\n

“We’re very shocked, very stunned,” said Janet Dunson, who has lived in the building for 17 years. “It looks like it’s open season on tenants.”<\/p>\n

The Economakises say they have big plans for the five-story, 15-apartment, 60-room building.<\/p>\n

In a letter they wrote to their tenants in 2003 explaining their plans to evict them, the couple — she’s the daughter of a Columbia University dean, and he’s the son of a Greek shipping magnate — said their current apartment in Brooklyn was too cramped and they needed more space.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Latter-Day Vanderbilts trying to turn an entire East Village building into their own private five-story, 15-apartment, 60-room building — or, possibly, as a ruse to evict undermarket rent-stabilized tenants — has won an appeals court ruling to go ahead with the dream: The state Appellate Division has given Alistair and Catherine Economakis the green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}