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Frances Axler Goldin (June 22, 1924- May 16, 2020) was a housing rights activist and literary agent in New York City. She was a founding member of the Metropolitan Council on Housing and the . Beginning in 1959, she led a successful campaign to defeat an urban renewal plan of Robert Moses, which would have replaced historic, affordable housing with a freeway in the Lower East Side. For decades, Goldin was associated with the Lower East Side, where she was a neighborhood preservationist and community figure. The 175 Essex Building of Essex Crossing is named in her honor, and she was profiled in the documentary It Took 50 Years.