109 East 9th Street
109 East 9th Street is a five-story, 1860s-era single-room-occupancy building in Manhattan’s East Village. Its complete documentary record is public.
Why is the record public?
A dispute about a building is usually argued in summaries: a claim in an article, an allegation in a filing, a number in a press release. The underlying documents were published instead, so that every claim about 109 East 9th Street, including claims made against him, can be checked against the paper it rests on.
What does the archive contain?
- Court filings from the housing and supreme court proceedingsDocuments
- OATH hearing transcriptsTranscripts
- Department of Buildings and HPD recordsCity records
- Correspondence with agencies and tenantsLetters
- Building surveillance footageVideo
- A timeline, with each entry cited to its documentTimeline
The regulatory conflict
The archive sets out a specific problem the building faced: one city agency ordering repairs while another blocked the permits needed to make them. The site presents that as a diagram in which every box links to the document behind it.
Coverage
The building has been written about by The Real Deal, Hell Gate and amNewYork. Those articles are listed, with links, on the press page.