Time for a Tenants Association

Abstract

This chapter mentions the MetLife insurance company, which developed Peter Cooper Village at the same time as Stuyvesant Town covered the area from 20th to 23rd Streets. It details how the two communities operated as a united whole, with the same security and maintenance staff serving them, except the apartments in the Peter Cooper buildings were a little bigger than those in Stuy Town. It also elaborates the perception of Stuy Town' tenants about the management as they seem to pay more attention to Peter Cooper. The chapter talks about the second burst of real activism by Stuy Town tenants that was led by Charles Lyman, who decided to get together to explore ways to protect themselves and their community after 1974. It discusses the meetings of Lyman's group of tenants, which called themselves assembly the Stuyvesant Town Tenants Association.