Harlem Block to Make History – Again
By alana.casanova | November 23rd, 2009 | | 
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- Published in: New York Daily News
Alana Casanova-Burgess
NEW LEASE: A row of buildings on W. 135th Street, once the northernmost properties in Manhattan owned by an African-American landlord, is set to become one of the first affordable-housing blocks in the country to undergo a green overhaul.
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Water doesn’t trickle down from the right basin of Jeanette Davis‘ sink – it pours.
Puddles have formed under the kitchen cabinet of her W. 135th St. apartment, and the 58-year-old recently used a broom to evict a live rat from her neighbor’s mailbox.
“And this is what I go through every day,” she said.
But starting this winter, her building and its nine six-story companions along a historic row between Lenox and Seventh Aves. will be among the first affordable housing blocks in the country to undergo a green overhaul.
