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Joel Hurt: a 19th-century businessman who abused the convict leasing system From slavery to convict leasing, one Atlanta businessman blurred the lines between the two. Photo Courtesy of GSU Library Archives Joel Hurt, an Atlanta Businessman of the late 1800s to the early 1900s and co-founder of Suntrust Bank, is credited with building the Atlanta we see today. He is the man behind The Hurt Building on 33 Hurt Plaza, featured in the Golden Globe-nominated series “Lovecraft Country,” the Equitable Building and the Inman Park neighborhood’s development.  However, people do not say much ab...

In Fairfield County, a 13-acre compound with a grand six-bedroom main residence, guest cottage, greenhouse, and a barn-style detached garage is now on the market for $5.195 million. Known as Byebrook, the sprawling property at 232 Newtown Turnpike was once home to late New York City real estate mogul Lawrence Wien, who used the property as a hunting lodge, as Westport News first reported. Surrounded by nature, the estate sits along the Saugatuck River and is near the Devil’s Den Nature Preserve, while still being just a 75-minute drive to Midtown Manhattan. As a partner of the firm Wien & ...

BIG reinterprets a 100+ year zoning law in the heart of Harlem The Smile. South Model Unit. Image by Pernille and Thomas Loof. NEW YORK, NY .- The Smile, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, is a mixed-use residential development introducing affordable housing units alongside market rate rentals, set within the vibrant Harlem streetscape. In 1912, the Equitable Building in Lower Manhattan was designed to be the largest building that could fit its site and rose skywards from the street lot-line without any setbacks. The building has since served as the prime example of the perils of unregulate...

You hear things like that all the time, but all the sudden it became clear, this is true, let's find out what it was. for a period of minutes and not just a couple, the thinking was that a plane had crashed into a building. we heard the sirens here in our building just building and building. my office is pretty high up without being specific, we could hear the sirens and they were louder than normal city sirens. they seem to be coming from all directions and sure enough, this is what it turned out to be. they are at the equitable building, at 51st street, they evacuated and it still on, street...

Than the protesters a fire broke out in a high rise, the equitable building on the 28th floor with debris falling to the ground. this glass actually hit sally in the arm. >> yeah, from 28 floors up. it hurts. >> you see significance just in the firefighters being here as well in terms of this movement. >> it is interesting. first of all, firefighters in new york are part of the 99%. they have as much at stake in fixing the economy as the folks do in the park. >> it is 7:00 and there is a group practicing yoga together. getting their exercise as well as expressing their opinions. it is now 8:30...