page_title: Fred F. French
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Fred F. French / Career
caption_attribution_description: Fred F French Building, Manhattan, New York
context_page_description: Frederick Fillmore French was a real estate developer.
context_section_description: He built Tudor City, a housing development on Manhattan's East Side, for the rising middle class in the 1920s.  He also developed Knickerbocker Village, middle-class housing on the Lower East Side between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. His original intention for the project was to build housing for "junior Wall Street executives".  His Fred F. French Building is a well-known skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in Midtown.
  French and his company served as the developer and landlord of Knickerbocker Village, important in the history of landlord–tenant law. When the tenants were to take possession of their apartments, they found conditions to be unlivable.  Facilities were either unfinished or poorly equipped, including non-working elevators and inoperable laundry rooms.  The tenants formed the Knickerbocker Village Tenants Association and started a strike, withholding their rent checks until their grievances were dealt with. The conflict that arose from the tenants' dissatisfaction led to New York City's rent control laws.
caption: Fred F. French Building
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