Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust, acquired and rehabilitated the turn-of-the-century building, restoring the brick ...

Richard Hirsch, 61, likes to joke that he lives on Thousandaires’ Row. For decades he has made his home at Carnegie House, a midcentury brick building on West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. From ...