Westbeth X Files, or How the Tenants Saved Westbeth

“Westbeth X Files” explores the early decades of the artists housing complex, its successes and its trials, through remembrances of residents along with documentation from tenants and tenant councils.

By Terry Stoller

Chapter 1
Moving In and Organizing Groups for Work and Play (1970s)
Chapter 2
Tenant Activism and the Rent Strike (1970s)
Chapter 3
Westbeth Residents’ Council, More Financial Woes, and the 10th Anniversary (1970s + 1980)

Westbeth’s programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State. Westbeth is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.