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Manhattan Plaza : ウィキペディア英語版 | Manhattan Plaza
Manhattan Plaza is a large federally subsidized residential complex at 400 and 484 West 43rd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It has 1,688 units and about 3,500 tenants. 70% of the tenants are from the performing arts, 15% are neighborhood residents, and 15% are elderly. It occupies the city block bounded north by 43rd Street, east by Ninth Avenue, south by 42nd Street, and west by Tenth Avenue. ==History==
Constructed in the 1970s, the complex originally was intended to be luxury apartments before the developers declared bankruptcy and left the mostly completed structures vacant.〔(Fighting For Change: Fox built in the toughest of markets ), BY BENDIX ANDERSON, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE, July 2008〕 The all-electric heating became uneconomic after the oil crisis raised the costs of electricity, and prospective tenants found the neighborhood of the time, with its crime and sexually oriented book stores and movies, undesirable. Shortly after Manhattan Plaza opened, the City was hit by the AIDS crisis, and many residents in the performing arts came down with AIDS. To respond to their needs, General Manager Rodney Kirk, an Episcopal minister by training, established social service programs with paid staff and volunteers, and the help of the Actors' Fund, to care for them and for non-residents.〔 According to health officials, a greater proportion of people have died of AIDS in that apartment complex compared to any other residence building in the country. As HIV/AIDS came under control, the focus of the social services program shifted to the elderly, who are aging in place, and are sometimes unable to care for themselves.〔 Kirk retired in 1997 and died in 2001.〔 His work was continued by General Manager Richard Hunnings, his companion of 42 years.〔(Rodney Kirk, 67, Director Of Manhattan Plaza, Is Dead ) By Wolfgang Saxon, New York Times, July 17, 2001〕〔(Manhattan Plaza Project ), New York Public Library, September 12, 2012〕
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