From The Association

About the Independence Plaza North Tenants Association

IPNTA was formed to represent the interests of IPN tenants with the building managers, Duane Street Management Company. IPNTA was involved in many efforts to build the community of Tribeca — advocating for the public schools, building local parks, campaigning to get a supermarket and other neighborhood services in place.

Mostly recently, IPNTA's biggest priority has become SAVING OUR HOMES, the most fundamental fight of all. The affordable housing of IPN is in jeopardy as the current owners, the Cohn brothers, attempt to sell IPN to mega-real estate developer, Laurence Gluck. Gluck has already publicly stated that if he takes over, he intends to leave the Mitchell-Lama program, and raise IPN rents to whatever the market will bear. If the government allows this to happen, most of us will be forced out of our homes. The IPNTA Board is working hard to prevent this. We need your help.

This has been and will continue to be a difficult battle, one that is costly both in terms of money and toil. The top-notch professionals who are vital to our cause, such as lawyers and financial analysts, don’t come cheap, and the day to day business of reaching out to others that can help us requires vast amounts of time and energy.

While there are no guarantees, we strongly believe we have a good chance to win this fight. But we really need ALL our neighbors to pitch in.

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