339 Lafayette Street
40°43′34″N 73°59′39″W / 40.72611°N 73.99417°W
339 Lafayette Street, nicknamed the Peace Pentagon, and officially numbered 339-345, is a building in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City known in the late 20th and early 21st century for the many left-wing and radical activist and political organizations headquartered there. The building was completed c.1920.[1]
History
[edit]The War Resisters League began to rent the building in 1968, and purchased it in 1974 for $60,000.[2]
In 1978 the A. J. Muste Institute bought the building from the War Resisters League for $91,000.[2] [3] For decades the Institute provided office space to politically congenial activist organizations at below-market rates.[3]
In October 2015, the building was sold to the real estate holding company 337 Lafayette L.P., owned by developer Aby Rosen.[4]
Organizations with headquarters in the building have included the Granny Peace Brigade, the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case, the Socialist Party USA,[3] the Metropolitan Council on Housing,[2] Women's Pentagon Action, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa, the New York Anti-Nuclear Group, the Infant Formula Action Coalition, Art for Social Change, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, the Fund for Open Information and Accountability,[5] NYC Shut It Down, and Paper Tiger Television.
References
[edit]- ^ New York City Geographic Information System Map
- ^ a b c Moynihan, Colin (September 4, 2007). "Region Structural Flaws Found in a Building That's Known as the Peace Pentagon". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ a b c Hogarty, Dave (February 28, 2012). "Wall Street, One Percenters Ready to Occupy 'Peace Pentagon'". Curbed. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ Moynihan, Colin (April 12, 2016). "The 'Peace Pentagon,' an Activist Office in NoHo, Is Forced to Move". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ Bennett, Scott (2003). Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963. Syracuse University Press. p. xiv.
External links
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