Days before the rent is due on May 1, the building administration knocked on the door of Sean Riley's apartment in Brooklyn to ask him to pay the previous month's payment. But like thousands of others in New York, he participated in a strike yesterday, demanding the abolition of rents as the number of unemployed increases.

While Riley, 25, and other residents waved banners from the building in the Crown Heights neighborhood, cars surrounded the luxurious New York Governor Andrew Como's home in Albany, the state capital, as part of a demonstration respecting social rules.

Similar movements were organized across the country, where more than a million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus, of whom more than 64,000 died.

It is believed that the protests that coincided with Labor Day were the largest coordinated activity of tenants in New York since the 1930s, when massive strikes were staged as a result of price fraud.

About 12,000 tenants from about 100 buildings in New York - the epicenter of "Covid 19" disease in the United States - participated in Friday's strike, according to preliminary figures issued by the most prominent organized movement group "Housing Justice for All" (housing justice for all).

It is estimated that about two-thirds of New York's 8.6 million residents are tenants. The average monthly rent for a two-room apartment ranges from $ 2,500 in Queens to more than $ 4,000 in Manhattan, according to the "Rent Cafe" website specializing in this field.