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Arvids Jansons.\u00a0 I got a desk when he left.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Argero Vassileros.\u00a0 \u00a0Nickname: Argie.<\/p>\n Michael Bielemuk.\u00a0 The Professor.\u00a0 He had three rooms with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.<\/p>\n Maria Malfundido.\u00a0 (Not her real name but close enough.)\u00a0 A kleptomaniac.\u00a0 She stole light bulbs from the hall so we glued the bulbs into the sockets.<\/p>\n Zenon Chaikovsky.\u00a0 Building manager and Ukrainian musician.<\/p>\n Saram Carmichael.\u00a0 A black transvestite<\/strong><\/span> who solicited customers from her second floor window.\u00a0 The johns waited at the bus stop outside her window.\u00a0 What is a Saram?<\/p>\n Stan Hershfield.\u00a0 One of the few Jews<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>on the West Side.\u00a0 He was raised in an orphanage and loved the word bubkes<\/em> (beans), as in: “Stratton, I have bubkes<\/em> so don’t hondle<\/em> me about the rent.”\u00a0 [Hondle<\/em> is haggle.]\u00a0 When Hershfield painted the wood floor in his kitchen, he beamed, “Only the best, Stratton, Benjamin Moore!”<\/p>\n Malfalda Bedrossian.\u00a0 She was never late with her rent.\u00a0 Put that on her tombstone.<\/p>\n Chris Andrews.\u00a0 He made up for his regular name<\/strong><\/span> by sleeping in a coffin.<\/p>\n Merjeme Haxhiraj. \u00a0An Albanian who talked me down $10 on her rent every year.<\/p>\n John “Chip” Stephens. \u00a0A Chet Baker-like figure — in looks, music and name. \u00a0He played jazz piano all day and was so good he landed a tenure track job at a university in Missouri. Arvids Jansons.\u00a0 I got a desk when he left. Argero Vassileros.\u00a0 \u00a0Nickname: Argie. Michael Bielemuk.\u00a0 The Professor.\u00a0 He had three rooms with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Maria Malfundido.\u00a0 (Not her real name but close enough.)\u00a0 A kleptomaniac.\u00a0 She stole light bulbs from the hall so we glued the bulbs into the sockets. Zenon Chaikovsky.\u00a0 Building manager and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/8567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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