Mary Fountain, a resident of 1520 Sedgwick in the Bronx is fighting to keep the building affordable to tenants. 1520 Sedgwick is credited as the birthplace of hip hop
Residents Fighting To Save Hip-Hop Birthplace
A new beat may be coming to the Bronx building where hip-hop was born.
Residents of 1520 Sedgwick Ave., the place where in the mid-1970s a young D.J. later known as Kool Herc started spinning records at parties in the basement recreation room, are announcing today their plan to buy the building — for only a few thousands dollars per apartment — from private interests, and keep it affordable.
“It’s like Graceland or the Grand Ole Opry, it’s the birthplace, where it all started from,” Herc said. “It’s a piece of the American dream and we just want to preserve it.”
The Morris Heights building is a designated affordable-housing Mitchell-Lama property, but last year BSR Management, the property’s owner, announced plans to sell the 100-unit complex to Mark Karasick, a private equity investor. Long-time residents immediately feared that they would be pushed out in favor of high-end renters. Read more..
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