![]() (A comparable unit in the building is currently on the market for more than $1.1 million.) It’s a good thing he doesn’t have to move, because it would be an ordeal. ![]() The building, which dates back to 1902, has since become a co-op, but a few tenants (Aletti among them) were allowed to stay on as rent-stabilized stalwarts he told me that he would never be able to afford the place at full price. He talked the landlady down from three hundred and fifty dollars a month to three hundred and signed a two-year lease, which he has been re-signing biannually ever since. The apartment-in the same building as his friend Robert Christgau, the Village Voice rock critic, and across the street from another friend, the photographer Peter Hujar-was a three-bedroom on the sixth floor, with natural light in every room. He was thirty-one years old and a writer for the magazine Record World. ![]() In 1976, the photography critic and curator Vince Aletti moved into an East Village apartment, in a Beaux Arts-style building on the corner of Second Avenue and Twelfth Street. ![]()
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