Posted on 12/29/2008 9:19:35 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Editta Sherman has celebrated more than half a century's worth of new years in her palatial studio apartment above New York's Carnegie Hall. But it's unlikely the celebrated portrait photographer will be raising her glass there next year.
Known as the Duchess of Carnegie, the 96-year-old came home a few days ago to find an eviction notice on her door.
"I thought, oh, what is this? Are you kidding me that they are really going to send a woman like me down the street just like that? Have me scurry away without a fight," she said, delivering a whooping cackle, punctuated with a grandmother's tsk tsk.
"Oh, no, that's not what I am going to do. They'll have to take me out of here with their bare hands."
The city of New York wants to renovate the space above Carnegie Hall, where Marlon Brando once lived and where Sherman and five other renters, including iconic New York Times' photographer Bill Cunningham, have enjoyed rent-stabilized bliss since Frank Sinatra cut his first demo.
Sherman pays $650 a month for her studio, a drool-inducing space basked in natural light with floor-to-ceiling windows. An enormous skylight hangs over bold, black-and-white tiled floors; a cast-iron circular staircase leads to a loft stuffed with props.
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Do you think it’s rent-controlled?
I read the article and all I can say to ‘Editta’ who occupies an entire rent-controlled ($650/month) floor is tough $hit, Edita! You, along with the rest of the diletentes in NYC, wanted ‘change’ -— now you have it. It’s time you started paying your ‘fair share’.
Typical. Do as I say, not as I do. Pay your rent!
She’s 96 years old. Let her stay!
The lost revenue from bad publicity will hurt worse!
"We have asked Editta to come and look at spaces with us," Carlino told CNN.
But Sherman and her like-minded neighbors are not budging."
Why do tenants have more right to the apartment, than the owner. This is not just a fair deal, but an exceedingly generous one and the tenants think they have some kind of right to the apartments they are RENTING!
She should be kicked out on the street for her act of trying to extort $10mil from the taxpayers.
It’s bizarre in NYC. Up is down.
From the article: "enjoyed rent-stabilized bliss..."
Rent control, another failed liberal program designed to take from the producers/providers and give to those who don't.
Who does she pay the $650 to? A private citizen or the City of NY?
Now, now.
If we don’t honour her rent-controlled status, think of the disruption to the war effort. We might never bring the Nazis down!
Wonder if Sandy Weil will do as a good a job on Carnegie Hall as he did driving Citibank into the dirt.
He’s also a buttbuddy with Bob Rubin.
This lady may not have a firm grasp of the reality she’s facing from these wolves.
Weill's son-in-law, Natan Bibliowicz, has been hired to design the studio spaces above the hall in a $150 million expansion, and taxpayers will reportedly foot part of the bill because New York state granted $5 million to cover design and planning costs, according to the New York Times.
I'm on Editta's side, compared to these crooks.
THIS is what they are offering her and she doesn’t want to cooperate.
“Carnegie Hall has offered to pay for the rent-control tenants’ relocation expenses and move them to apartments which are “equivalent or better” in the neighborhood. The Hall also is offering to pay the difference in rent to each of those tenants for the rest of their lives.”
There’s only one way to get her to come down. Cecil B. DeMille will have to bring in a movie set downstairs. Then when she walks in on camera for her close-up, you throw the net over her.
Did you see the piece they did on her apartment and her life? Seems it’s a facinating massive historical collection to me.
She’s not going to be there that much longer , if you know what I mean.
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