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Manida Street Health Fair

Jill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:28:14 +0000

In the waning days of summer, Project HOPE, the community outreach initiative of Urban Health Plan and HPAC worked with tenant leaders at the Manida Street buildings to plan a Health Fair for children and families. Project HOPE provided physical activities for kids and spoke to parents nutrition and asthma treatment. Urban Health Plan also provided on-site health screenings and information on topics chosen by tenants. Residents were invited to share healthy snacks and grilled veggies provided through the Food Program, while tenants took turns DJ’ing the event.

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HPAC Legal Interns in Hunts Point

Jill — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:53:11 +0000

Sept. 29, 2009. In its ongoing fight to help the tenants of Hunts Point’s “House of horrors,” the apartment complex at 621-627 Manida Street, get their badly damaged buildings and apartments repaired, the Hunts Point Alliance for Children enlisted two law school students for the summer.

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Housing Bubble Impacts Manida Tenants

Jill — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:16:17 +0000

July 1, 2009. When a two-year-old real estate investment firm with extensive holdings bought the four-building apartment complex at 621-623 and 625-627 Manida Street for $7.2 million in 2007, the company’s president boasted that she was ‘proud that Ocelot Capital will soon be one of the leading local firms with investments in affordable rental properties…

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Manida Tenants Begin Battle

Jill — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:02:32 +0000

March 11, 2009…[c]ity records show the 112-unit complex has more than 2,000 outstanding violations. In November, the city named 627 Manida one of the 200 worst multi-family dwellings in New York….

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