Christodora House
- Address: 147 Ave B
- Vicinity: E 9th St
- Nabe of Alphabet City in East Village
- Neighborhood of East Village in Manhattan NYC
- Borough of Manhattan NYC in New York City
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1928/00/00 | Arthur Curtiss James | Benefactor | Christodora House is built as a settlement home for low-income and immigrant residents, providing food and shelter along with educational and health services. | |||
| 1928/00/00 | Henry C Pelton | Architect | Designed in the American Perpendicular Style by Henry C Pelton, Christodora House is erected on Avenue B. | |||
| 1969/00/00 | After a splinter group of the Black Panthers sets up a headquarters at Christodora, they turn fire hoses on the electrical system as a protest, largely destroy the building's systems and cause it to be condemned. | |||||
| 1975/00/00 | Christodora building is sold for $62,500. | |||||
| 1982/00/00 | Harry Skydell buys the borded up, ripped out, and flooded Christodora House for $1.3 million to convert it into luxury condos. | |||||
| 1984/00/00 | A New York Magazine cover article about gentrification, "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood," describes the Christodora as a "clunky old" building "surrounded by burned-out buildings that crawled with pushers and junkies." | Tompkins Square Park Riot | ||||
| 1988/08/07 | "It was horrific for me, to walk outside and have people yell: 'Pig! Yuppie scum!'. I wanted to say, 'I'm no yuppie, I'm broke!' My phone was turned off." Jerry Saltz, art critic for New York Magazine, lived in a 10th-floor apartment at the time. | Tompkins Square Park Riot | ||||
| 1988/08/07 | Rioters chanting "Die Yuppie Scum" in reference to the supposed "yuppie scum" residents in Christodora House, heave a police barricade through the glass front doors and ransacked the lobby. | Tompkins Square Park Riot | ||||
| 1990/00/00 | Iggy Pop | Home | Iggy Pop moves into Christodora House. "A lot of the buildings around here, they're pretty funky, pretty funky buildings. But I live in a nice one, and that gets up a lot of people's tree." In 1998, Mr Pop moved to Miami. | |||
| 2012/03/16 | Hedge fund manager and Christodora tenant, Brian Kim pleads guilty to 9 of 26 counts against him, including grand larceny, operating a Ponzi scheme and stealing $435,000 from the Christodora House condo association. |
| Particulars for Christodora House: | |
|---|---|
| Sight Category | Building |
| Historic Use | Civic |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Historic Use | Hotel |
| Owner | Private |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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