711 WEA TAG / Tenants Action Group

03/09/2023

We’re back!! And here’s what we’re working on since our new management company is making strange moves!

Tenants in dozens of uptown apartment buildings are teaming up to demand repairs from the large investment firm that purchased their homes and is now forfeiting their properties.

04/17/2021

The city starts to take notice of potential safety risks, the premise of our fight to preserve our homes and lives.

Five Upper West Side buildings have been barred from getting new work permits under a new law intended to protect against tenant abuse.

05/23/2020

AS OF RIGHT? WHOSE RIGHT? “The building’s application surprised the committee members by only including one affordable unit in a building planned to take up approximately 276,578 square feet.”

The public got a first look at a major development project planned for 96th Street and Broadway at a Community Board 7 meeting held on the Zoom video conferencing platform on Wednesday.

10/16/2019

Let’s be sure MORE is also BETTER...but this is news we need to know.

A new 23-floor apartment building being proposed for 96th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue could bring affordable housing and micro-unit studios to the neighborhood. The new project, partially located on the site of a now-defunct MTA substation, is set to be discussed at a joint meeting o...

04/11/2019

A former Columbia Journalism student Frank G. Runyeon won an investigative reporting award for looking at something in plain sight of all of us..water tanks.

Two Big Updates: I won a first place investigative reporting award from the New York Press Association this part weekend for my reporting on the neglect of New York City's rooftop drinking water tanks. Coincidentally, the New York City Council just enacted seven new laws today, citing my reporting f

04/10/2019

REALLY!!!!

Back in January, the design of the 775-foot-tall tower known as 50 West 66th Street appeared to be in jeopardy after the city's Department of Buildings threatened to revoke the project's permit.

01/18/2019

BAM!! Never, ever, ever give up!

It's slated to rise on 66th Street near Lincoln Center.

01/11/2019

Metro Man showering in UES apartment injured by falling construction debris By Alex Taylorand Ben Feuerherd January 9, 2019 |11:54pm |Updated Modal Trigger Fireman on scene at Eat 63rd Street and 3rd...

05/08/2018

Vote blindly, repent at leisure.

Krista Shockey voted for President Trump in November. Now she's one of the people who might get hurt under his proposal to slash the safety net.

03/02/2018

The fight for our neighborhoods and safety continues!

Upper West Side residents have been mobilizing to fight large apartment towers that have been sprouting up in the neighborhood, and last week they got an education in how developers are managing to build them.

01/05/2018

Our neighbor, wonderful pianist Cecile Licad -- we hear her practice and now we can hear and see her at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Thursday January 18th!

Cecile Licad received international recognition in 1981 as one of the youngest musicians to be awarded the Leventritt Gold Medal. She has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and National Symphony Orchestra...