Tuesday, October 24, 2006

News at Eleven: In the meantime, she's living

in a sort of precarious tenement tree house.

In 1962, when [Hettie] Jones moved into the top floor of the former rooming house with her then-husband, LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), "it had been vacant for more than ten years," she says. They had no gas, no heat, and no sink, and the rent was $100 a month.

from New York Magazine: High-Rise Eats Tenement

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