339 Lafayette Street
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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
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] and Paper Tiger Television.
References
- ↑ New York City Geographic Information System Map
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External links
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