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6/26/2025, 6:46:10 AM
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Larry David, the co-creator of 'Seinfeld', used to pay $57/month to live in this highrise. The rent was subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is a federal agency. So we're all subsidizing housing for jews in New York already.
Larry David, the co-creator of 'Seinfeld', used to pay $57/month to live in this highrise. The rent was subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is a federal agency. So we're all subsidizing housing for jews in New York already.
6/23/2025, 3:14:57 AM
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>“Miracle on 42nd Street” — Alice Elliott’s documentary, premiering Saturday at the DOC NYC Film Festival — makes the convincing case that it was Manhattan Plaza, the hulking, federally subsidized apartment complex that stretches from Ninth to 10th avenues between 42nd and 43rd streets. Since opening in June 1977, its 1,689 apartments have been home to New Yorkers struggling to make a living in the performing arts — actors, singers, stagehands, musicians and comedians.
>That year, David traded his roach-infested railroad apartment for a Manhattan Plaza studio — “paying $57 a month,” he says in the documentary. Samuel L. Jackson worked as a doorman in the building’s early years while auditioning for plays at the Negro Ensemble Company. A struggling Terrence Howard (Lucious Lyon in “Empire”) practiced lines with fellow Manhattan Plaza resident Giancarlo Esposito, who was about to get his big break in Spike Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.” And in 1993, Alicia Keys wrote her first song at Manhattan Plaza, after being given a piano by a neighbor.
If the federal government didn't cover most of the cost of rent, we would not have shows like Seinfeld, the movies of Spike Lee, the acting of Samuel L. Jackson, or the music of Alicia Keys. Seems like a bargain to me.
>“Miracle on 42nd Street” — Alice Elliott’s documentary, premiering Saturday at the DOC NYC Film Festival — makes the convincing case that it was Manhattan Plaza, the hulking, federally subsidized apartment complex that stretches from Ninth to 10th avenues between 42nd and 43rd streets. Since opening in June 1977, its 1,689 apartments have been home to New Yorkers struggling to make a living in the performing arts — actors, singers, stagehands, musicians and comedians.
>That year, David traded his roach-infested railroad apartment for a Manhattan Plaza studio — “paying $57 a month,” he says in the documentary. Samuel L. Jackson worked as a doorman in the building’s early years while auditioning for plays at the Negro Ensemble Company. A struggling Terrence Howard (Lucious Lyon in “Empire”) practiced lines with fellow Manhattan Plaza resident Giancarlo Esposito, who was about to get his big break in Spike Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.” And in 1993, Alicia Keys wrote her first song at Manhattan Plaza, after being given a piano by a neighbor.
If the federal government didn't cover most of the cost of rent, we would not have shows like Seinfeld, the movies of Spike Lee, the acting of Samuel L. Jackson, or the music of Alicia Keys. Seems like a bargain to me.
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