Lenin toppled, Red Square - Revision history

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	[[File:29711425612_3ee9bfd390_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Lenin statue removed, Red Square, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years. From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:29711425612_3ee9bfd390_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Lenin statue removed, Red Square, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years.<ref>Carter Horsley, [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/east-village/red-square-250-east-houston-street/review/1851 "Red Square, 250 East Houston Street"], ''Cityrealty'', retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.		The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.

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	[[File:29711425612_3ee9bfd390_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Lenin statue removed, Red Square, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years.<ref>Carter Horsley, [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/east-village/red-square-250-east-houston-street/review/1851 "Red Square, 250 East Houston Street"], ''Cityrealty'', retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:29711425612_3ee9bfd390_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Lenin statue removed, Red Square, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years. From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.		The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.

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	The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.		The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.

	On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue, by then a familiar landmark on Houston Street, was quietly removed in a two-hour operation, heralding the building’s sale and the beginning of a new era for 'Red Square'.		On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue, by then a familiar landmark on Houston Street, was quietly removed in a two-hour operation, heralding the building’s sale and the beginning of a new era for ''Red Square''.

	==Background and opening==		==Background and opening==

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	Frederique Krupa, in her extended 1992 examination of the building's marketing, noted how a 1989 brochure advertising rentals in the building (complete with Constructivist-inspired graphics) had been keen to highlight the hip and edgy credentials of the building's East Village location - alongside an emphasis on the building's security features: doorman, steel clad apartment doors, and an up to date video intercom system for screening visitors. "The tenant can go out in this dangerous neighborhood and return to their safe, clean, private haven."<ref>Ibid.</ref> The brochure baldly plotted the trajectory of demographic change in the East Village in a movie script-style historical thumbnail:		Frederique Krupa, in her extended 1992 examination of the building's marketing, noted how a 1989 brochure advertising rentals in the building (complete with Constructivist-inspired graphics) had been keen to highlight the hip and edgy credentials of the building's East Village location - alongside an emphasis on the building's security features: doorman, steel clad apartment doors, and an up to date video intercom system for screening visitors. "The tenant can go out in this dangerous neighborhood and return to their safe, clean, private haven."<ref>Ibid.</ref> The brochure baldly plotted the trajectory of demographic change in the East Village in a movie script-style historical thumbnail:

	~~<blockquote>~~"A seamstress and a presser, shy as villagers falling in love over the accompaniment of whirring sewing machines and sweet tea...<br />		{{Blockquote\|"A seamstress and a presser, shy as villagers falling in love over the accompaniment of whirring sewing machines and sweet tea...<br />
	[fade to...] The lint of sweat shops swept out by raucous Spanish accents...<br />		[fade to...] The lint of sweat shops swept out by raucous Spanish accents...<br />
	[fade to...] Long haired poets silk-screening posters for the revolution...<br />		[fade to...] Long haired poets silk-screening posters for the revolution...<br />
	Today it's an after hours club. Or is it the apartment where the incredible Dutch model with one name lives with Mr. Wallstreet?"<ref>Ibid.</ref>~~</blockquote>~~		Today it's an after hours club. Or is it the apartment where the incredible Dutch model with one name lives with Mr. Wallstreet?"<ref>Ibid.</ref>}}

	Writing three years after the opening of the building, Krupa noted the gulf between the building's tenants - "mostly white and either single or in couples with two incomes and no children", and the largely low-income demographic of the immediate neighborhood. The latter, she pointed out, were more accurately reflected in the Red Square development's adjacent retail spaces, which included fast food restaurants, a billiard hall and a Western Union check cashing facility. "Michael Rosen used designers and artists to alter the way we judge Red Square. The problem is not simply that Red Square is luxury housing in a tenement neighborhood, it [is that it] tries to appear as something that it isn't".<ref>Ibid.</ref>		Writing three years after the opening of the building, Krupa noted the gulf between the building's tenants - "mostly white and either single or in couples with two incomes and no children", and the largely low-income demographic of the immediate neighborhood. The latter, she pointed out, were more accurately reflected in the Red Square development's adjacent retail spaces, which included fast food restaurants, a billiard hall and a Western Union check cashing facility. "Michael Rosen used designers and artists to alter the way we judge Red Square. The problem is not simply that Red Square is luxury housing in a tenement neighborhood, it [is that it] tries to appear as something that it isn't".<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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	==2016 removal of Lenin statue==		==2016 removal of Lenin statue==

	[[File:29711428452_202234806c_o.jpg\|~~200px~~\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful management of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:29711428452_202234806c_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful management of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>		On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>

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	[[File:~~Lenin-east village~~.jpg\|thumb\|right\|~~Statue of~~ Lenin ~~atop '~~Red Square~~' apartment building in New York City's East Village~~]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years.<ref>Carter Horsley, [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/east-village/red-square-250-east-houston-street/review/1851 "Red Square, 250 East Houston Street"], ''Cityrealty'', retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:29711425612_3ee9bfd390_o.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Lenin statue removed, Red Square, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]'Red Square' is a 13-story apartment building located at 250 East Houston Street in New York City. Opened in 1989, the building was, at the time, the first substantial new private development in the East Village in many years.<ref>Carter Horsley, [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/east-village/red-square-250-east-houston-street/review/1851 "Red Square, 250 East Houston Street"], ''Cityrealty'', retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> From its opening, Red Square was understood as a significant moment in the gentrification of the neighborhood,<ref>Lincoln Anderson, [http://thevillager.com/2016/09/22/lenin-has-left-the-building-there-goes-neighborhood/ "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood"], ''The Villager'', September 22, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> offering relatively luxurious apartments at significantly higher monthly rental rates than were then current for equivalent square footage in the area.<ref>Richard D. Lyons, [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/realestate/postings-turn-left-at-the-village-red-square.html "POSTINGS: Turn Left at the Village; Red Square"], ''New York Times'', April 9, 1989, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.		The building's owners controversially employed the 'danger' of the East Village neighborhood as part of a marketing campaign for the building aimed at attracting young tenants, projecting an 'edgy' image in its naming, the extensive use of art throughout the building, and with the 1994 addition of a statue of Vladimir Lenin on the rooftop.
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	[[File:~~Red-square-lenin-removal-1-620x465~~.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19, 2016]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful management of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:29711428452_202234806c_o.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19th, 2016. Photo by Stacie Joy]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful management of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>		On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>

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	[[File:Red-square-lenin-removal-1-620x465.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19, 2016]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful ~~running~~ of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:Red-square-lenin-removal-1-620x465.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19, 2016]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful management of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>		On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>

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	[[File:Statue of Lenin on top of "Red Square" on East Houston. - panoramio.jpg\|thumb\|Statue of Lenin on top of "Red Square" on East Houston. - panoramio]]In a final pitch at underlining the building's progressive credentials, in 1994, Red Square's developers added an 18ft bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin to the southwest corner of the building rooftop, visible from street level. The statue, which had been Michael Rosen's idea,<ref> Anderson, "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood".</ref> was by Soviet sculptor Yuri Gerasimov, and had originally been commissioned by the Soviet Union before the collapse of the state in the early 1990's. An associate of Michael Shaoul's had apparently sourced it "in the backyard of a dacha outside Moscow".<ref>Stolz, "F.Y.I. - Lenin and a Crazy Clock".</ref>		[[File:Statue of Lenin on top of "Red Square" on East Houston. - panoramio.jpg\|thumb\|Statue of Lenin on top of "Red Square" on East Houston. - panoramio]]In a final pitch at underlining the building's progressive credentials, in 1994, Red Square's developers added an 18ft bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin to the southwest corner of the building rooftop, visible from street level. The statue, which had been Michael Rosen's idea,<ref> Anderson, "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood".</ref> was by Soviet sculptor Yuri Gerasimov, and had originally been commissioned by the Soviet Union before the collapse of the state in the early 1990's. An associate of Michael Shaoul's had apparently sourced it "in the backyard of a dacha outside Moscow".<ref>Stolz, "F.Y.I. - Lenin and a Crazy Clock".</ref>

	Rosen, who had taught 'radical sociology' at New York University in the 'Power and Politics' course,<ref>Krupa, "Red Square, New York".</ref> was keen to emphasize that the intention with the statue was to have Lenin facing south toward Wall Street, gesturing in admonishment from the politically progressive Lower East Side. The developers had a postcard produced reading "Greetings from Red Square", depicting the ~~stature~~ with right arm held aloft over the downtown skyline.<ref>Stolz, "F.Y.I. - Lenin and a Crazy Clock".</ref>		Rosen, who had taught 'radical sociology' at New York University in the 'Power and Politics' course,<ref>Krupa, "Red Square, New York".</ref> was keen to emphasize that the intention with the statue was to have Lenin facing south toward Wall Street, gesturing in admonishment from the politically progressive Lower East Side. The developers had a postcard produced reading "Greetings from Red Square", depicting the statue with right arm held aloft over the downtown skyline.<ref>Stolz, "F.Y.I. - Lenin and a Crazy Clock".</ref>

	Rosen later visited Vietnam in an attempt to source a companion statue of Ho Chi Minh to add to the Red Square rooftop. His intention was to have that statue face north toward Harlem, "where legend has it that Ho Chi Minh worked as a short-order cook and perhaps studied a bit at Columbia..."<ref> Anderson, "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood".</ref> The idea was never realized, however, and Rosen has since acknowledged the contradictions of the whole Red Square enterprise, even apologizing for its role in accelerating the gentrification of the East Village over the following twenty years.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2015/06/rumors-red-square-has-been-sold.html "Rumors: Red Square has been sold"], ''EV Grieve'', June 1, 2015, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		Rosen later visited Vietnam in an attempt to source a companion statue of Ho Chi Minh to add to the Red Square rooftop. His intention was to have that statue face north toward Harlem, "where legend has it that Ho Chi Minh worked as a short-order cook and perhaps studied a bit at Columbia..."<ref> Anderson, "Lenin has left the building! There goes the neighborhood".</ref> The idea was never realized, however, and Rosen has since acknowledged the contradictions of the whole Red Square enterprise, even apologizing for its role in accelerating the gentrification of the East Village over the following twenty years.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2015/06/rumors-red-square-has-been-sold.html "Rumors: Red Square has been sold"], ''EV Grieve'', June 1, 2015, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

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	Red Square was designed by the architectural firm of Schuman Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron for ‘Sundered Ground’, a company owned by developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The building was constructed on a triangular plot of land on Houston Street between Avenues A and B that had been in the hands of Michael Rosen’s family since the early 1960s, and had been occupied by a gas station for over 25 years.		[[File:07.redsquare.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Red Square, Houston Street]]Red Square was designed by the architectural firm of Schuman Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron for ‘Sundered Ground’, a company owned by developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The building was constructed on a triangular plot of land on Houston Street between Avenues A and B that had been in the hands of Michael Rosen’s family since the early 1960s, and had been occupied by a gas station for over 25 years.

	Constructed in red brick with green metal window frames and south facing balconies, the development also included an adjacent 23,000 square foot ground-floor retail block, the rooftop of which doubled as a private plaza for residential tenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref>		Constructed in red brick with green metal window frames and south facing balconies, the development also included an adjacent 23,000 square foot ground-floor retail block, the rooftop of which doubled as a private plaza for residential tenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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	Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful running of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>		[[File:Red-square-lenin-removal-1-620x465.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Statue removal, September 19, 2016]]Rumors of the sale of the Red Square building began circulating in the summer of 2015. The ''EV Grieve'' website had noted that none of the vacant shop units in the development's retail strip were listed for rent at the time.<ref>"Rumors: Red Square has been sold", ''EV Grieve''.</ref> ''The New York Post'' subsequently reported that the development was in contract to be sold for roughly $100 million to the Dermot Company,<ref>Lois Weiss, [http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/tom-ford-finally-gets-a-prime-spot-on-madison-ave/ "Quirky East Village doorman building sold for $100M"], ''New York Post'', August 9, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> a management company that has a litany of complaints for neglectful running of their buildings.<ref>Sarah Kaufman, [http://patch.com/new-york/east-village/notoriously-neglectful-management-company-rumored-have-bought-red-square-east "Notorious Management Company Buys 'Red Square' in East Village: Report"], ''East Village Patch'', August 10, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref>

	On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>		On the evening of September 19th, 2016, the Lenin statue was removed without warning in a two-hour operation.<ref>[http://evgrieve.com/2016/09/the-fall-of-lenin-iconic-statue-removed.html "The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street"], ''EV Grieve'', September 20, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> Initially brought to a storage yard in Queens overnight, the statue was, the next day, hoisted to a rooftop at 178 Norfolk Street, just a block away from Red Square on the other side of Houston Street.<ref>Elie, [http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/09/red-squares-lenin-statue-finds-new-home-norfolk-street/ Red Square’s Lenin Statue Finds New Home on Norfolk Street], ''Bowery Boogie'', September 21, 2016, retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> 178 Norfolk Street is co-owned by original Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul, and Shaoul promised ''The New York Times'' that the statue would be on display at a new location within about a month.<ref>Moynihan, "With Statue's Removal, Lenin Is Momentarily Toppled on the Lower East Side".</ref>