1974 16mm Educational Film - RENIGADES Gang, New York City, Co-op Tenement Restoration

Genre: television news film

Year Published: 1974

Description: 1974 16mm Educational Film - RENIGADES Gang, New York City, Co-op Tenement Restoration The film features a group discussing the renovation of a tenement building in New York City. They outline the costs involved, including construction fees and the concept of "Sweat Equity," where community members contribute labor to save on renovation expenses. The total construction cost is estimated at $122,398, but with their efforts, they aim to significantly reduce this amount. Keywords renovation, tenement, community, Sweat Equity, construction, New York City, architecture, cost-saving, collective effort, Puerto Rican This channel is not monetized. If you like what you see here and would like to help me continue sharing cool stuff on my channel, please consider making a donation via Venmo @Pea-Hicks. From the Al Lowenheim archives. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/gang-turning-slum-housing-into-coop-new-approach.html Al's media archive was liquidated from a storage unit awhile back and ended up at a local San Diego swap meet. I rescued as many interesting-looking film/video items as I could, but the guy selling the stuff wanted more money for it than I was willing to pay for the entire lot. I managed to get in touch with Al and tried to reunite him with his stuff, but he proved to be quite difficult to communicate with and to date we've never made a fruitful connection. So for now I've decided to upload some of his items here for wider appreciation.

Complete Record: 1974 16mm Educational Film - RENIGADES Gang, New York City, Co-op Tenement Restoration The film features a group discussing the renovation of a tenement building in New York City. They outline the costs involved, including construction fees and the concept of "Sweat Equity," where community members contribute labor to save on renovation expenses. The total construction cost is estimated at $122,398, but with their efforts, they aim to significantly reduce this amount.

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renovation, tenement, community, Sweat Equity, construction, New York City, architecture, cost-saving, collective effort, Puerto Rican This channel is not monetized. If you like what you see here and would like to help me continue sharing cool stuff on my channel, please consider making a donation via Venmo @Pea-Hicks. From the Al Lowenheim archives. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/gang-turning-slum-housing-into-coop-new-approach.html Al's media archive was liquidated from a storage unit awhile back and ended up at a local San Diego swap meet. I rescued as many interesting-looking film/video items as I could, but the guy selling the stuff wanted more money for it than I was willing to pay for the entire lot. I managed to get in touch with Al and tried to reunite him with his stuff, but he proved to be quite difficult to communicate with and to date we've never made a fruitful connection. So for now I've decided to upload some of his items here for wider appreciation.

Transcription

okay Indio things look beautiful now that we got the building from the city of New York yeah man we're halfway there man can you imagine what this place will look like when we get it fully renovated I can see it all now a big sign over this entrance Renegades house a place for the community we don't man Cooley anyway Here Comes Kalos all Puerto Rican architect hey what's happening fellas okay do you know how you want to fix up this building man yeah man we need a lot of things to do we got to throw windows and you know hook up the walls all right we have some very important stuff to talk about not to begin with talk about the construction course contingency would be ten thousand eighty eight dollars now the building fee will cost you ten thousand thirty three dollars it's not bad okay since I'm developing this project I'd like to donate my architectural fees to your project sorry okay now the overall cost of the total construction would be 122 398 since we're working on a collective basis this way you could save money now this is all called Sweat Equity politically means we got to do all the work right well it's not all that bad see you do the renovation of The Brownstone and you'll save a lot of money well it's all right with me how about a fellas we do some work and we save some money bye all right here thank you honey five feet out it would be nice because you have Netflix [Music] [Music] foreign 63 480 doing school equity now the contingency will run 4 349 it was full equity construction costs around fifty nine thousand eight hundred thirty nine dollars hey so they agree that's a great idea how much we will really save on the whole thing okay the total construction cost is 122 398 dollars we subtract the school Equity cost which is 59 839 it comes out to 62 559 we saved man we just paid sixty two thousand dollars um [Music] foreign all right