Scandalmakers

tenement museum taps tenants in imminent eminent domain dispute

Tenants online has the scoop on the latest in eminent domain boondoggles, blithely reported here :

Perhaps the most bizarre instance of Eminent Domain is where the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks to acquire a building owned by long-time resident Lou Holtzman to expand the Museum. The problem is that Holtzman has 15 tenants who would be displaced by the move. And while the Museum has done good work in preserving the immigrant experience, its move (like many arts groups that naively bite at developer’s carrots), would hurt the very neighborhood whose values it seeks to extol.

Stop biting those carrots, Tenement Museum! Maybe you could make a Quicktime VR of the eviction proceedings, too?

Tags: convergence, eminent domain, new york city, tenements