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Moving Day: When Every NYC Lease Expired on May 1st
Moving is stressful: the expenses, the packing, the unpacking. If you had to do this with thousands of other people on the same day, would you? If you want to keep your sanity, probably not. But this wasn’t an option 200 years ago. In the mid-18th century, mayhem filled the streets of New York City every May 1st when every lease—residential and commercial—expired simultaneously. This was an annual event called Moving Day.
This tradition caused the city’s renters to scatter like frantic ants on an ant hill.
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