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    The 19181920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. Prior to the...
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    9 and led to about 2,000 families having their rents reduced. The 1918-20 New York City Rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations...
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  • rent laws were the result of a series of widespread rent strikes in New York City from 1918 to 1920 that had been sparked by a World War 1 housing shortage...
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    mobilization for World War I, a wave of rent strikes occurred across all of New York City and Jersey City from 1918 to 1920. While it is unclear exactly how...
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    Organized Labour portal 19181920 New York City rent strikes Housing portal Fernando, Aaron (4 October 2024). "Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect...
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    Palmer Raids (category January 1920 events)
    1918-1920 New York City rent strikes "Palmer Raids". 16 March 2023. Kennedy, 24 Shepley, Nick (2015). The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare: 19181920:...
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    Terminal and Pennsylvania Station thrived. From 1918 to 1920, New York City was affected by the largest rent strike wave in its history. Somewhere between several...
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    labor strikes by size List of miners' strikes List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes Streetcar strikes in the United States Strikes during...
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    Central New York is a hotel located at 109 East 42nd Street, adjoining Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It...
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  • timeline of the history of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to see New York Harbor arrives and names...
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    The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression...
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    Albert Ottinger (category Jewish American state legislators in New York (state))
    Jewish American jurists 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes § Ottinger law "Declares Congress May Free Filipinos", New York Times (May 3, 1924), p. 7...
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    is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches downtown (southward) from West 143rd Street in...
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    ROCH-ess-tər, -⁠iss-) is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County. It is the fourth-most populous city and 10th most-populated...
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    United Hebrew Trades (category Working-class culture in New York City)
    affiliated organization to the New York Division of the JLC. 1904 New York City Rent Strike 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes Epstein 1950, p. 168. Epstein...
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    New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough...
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  • rent wars: New York, 1917-1929. New Haven (Conn.): Yale University press. doi:10.12987/yale/9780300191721.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-300-19172-1. "Strikes in...
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    The 2013 New York City mayoral election occurred on November 5, 2013, along with elections for Comptroller, Public Advocate, Borough President, and members...
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  • The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and...
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    The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...
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    Royal S. Copeland (category Commissioners of Health of the City of New York)
    cases around failure to provide heat, and the widespread 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes.: 25  During the epidemic, Copeland organized a system of...
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  • opening. 1839 – Honey War, Iowa-Missouri border 1839 – Anti-Rent War, Hudson Valley, New York 1841 – Dorr Rebellion, Rhode Island 1841 – Cincinnati Riots...
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    The 2023 New York City Council elections were held on November 7, 2023, with primaries having occurred on June 27, 2023. Due to redistricting and the...
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    Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was founded as a gentlemen's club in March 1891 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by the financier...
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  • German-Polish Relations, 1918-1933 (Johns Hopkins University Press 1971) Rothschild, J. Piłsudski's Coup d'État (New York: Columbia University Press...
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    "Transport Movements". San Francisco Chronicle. 5 July 1920. p. 16. "Arrived". New York Herald. 31 July 1920. p. 4. "How did the Czech Legion get home?". History...
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    New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York...
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    populous city in the U.S. state of New York and the most-populous city in Westchester County. A centrally located municipality within the New York metropolitan...
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    artists. He came to love New York, relentlessly exploring it and writing poems about it. His formal jobs on the magazines paid the rent, but it was as a freelance...
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    hundred children to go to supporters' homes in New York City for the duration of the strike. When city authorities tried to prevent another 100 children...
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