An Extraction in Three Ledgers
Russell Patrick Brown v 18 Gay Street LLC
2017–ongoing
A durational documentary timeline of one landmarked Greenwich Village block, its tenant, its city and its owners, kept over eight years by the last rent-stabilized tenant.
Historic tax map, Manhattan Block 593.
18 Gay Street is a durational documentary work: an eight-year record of one landmarked Greenwich Village block (14–18 Gay Street and 16–20 Christopher Street, Manhattan Block 593) kept by the last rent-stabilized tenant.
It runs in three parallel ledgers: what the tenant did and what was done to him; what the city's courts and agencies did and failed to do; and what the owners did, bought, borrowed, sold and let rot. The lawsuit is its spine, not its subject. Every entry cites its source.
The work goes on.
How to read it
- Left lane, the tenant: filings, photographs, testimony, losses.
- Centre lane, the city: every act and omission by courts and agencies.
- Right lane, the owners: purchases, mortgages, sales, work, and the condition of the property on their watch.
Scroll to move through time. Select any entry to open its sources.
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