Former President Jimmy Carter joined Habitat for Humanity in restoring Mascot Flats, a dilapidated tenement in the East Village, in 1984.
For a week in September 1984, Jimmy Carter helped rehab this tenement on 6th Street between Avenue C and D. The hammering, in September of 1984, came from Jimmy Carter. The site was the East Village’s Mascot Flats, a six-story tenement on East 6th Street between Avenue C and D — one of many neighborhood buildings gutted in the 1970s by owners seeking insurance payouts. These landlords would load bathtubs with bricks to ensure floor collapses and guarantee their claims.
The building’s rehabilitation began when Reverend Bruce Schoonmaker of Graffiti Ministry Center on East 7th Street convinced Georgia-based Habitat for Humanity to establish its presence here in the city. He was seeking an alternative to government housing — many of his congregants were living with no heat and were being harassed by rats. Mascot Flat’s location near Emmanuel Church, which offered its resources, made it ideal. Behind the building, in a vacant lot, an elderly woman cooked meals on a makeshift fire between cinder blocks. Habitat purchased the roofless, gutted building from the City for $18,000 (it was appraised for $35,000), applying their “economics of Jesus” approach. The plan was to sell apartments at affordable prices to local residents who committed 1,000 work-hours to the renovation. All 370 windows were broken and without frames. Former President Jimmy Carter waves to spectators in a visit to Manhattan where he and wife Rosalyn are helping to restore a tenement on September 7, 1984. (Photo by Audrey C, Tiernan/Newsday RM via Getty Images)article in April 1984 about the ex-president planning a visit to the city in a few weeks. Carter had been involved with Habitat’s work in Haiti, so DeRocker sent the clipping to Habitat’s Georgia director, suggesting — half-seriously — that a presidential visit to Mascot Flats might boost funding.Two weeks later, DeRocker found himself beside the former president in the back of a seda
JIMMY CARTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TENEMENT EAST VILLAGE NEW YORK CITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMUNITY REHABILITATION
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