Jimmy Carter’s work with Habitat for Humanity started in East Village of Manhattan in New York [Video]

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan — Most people will walk right past 742 East 6th Street and never look twice. A six-story brick building off of Avenue D that was once crumbling and uninhabitable-restored in the 1980s by a little-known group called Habitat for Humanity with a well-known supporter named Jimmy Carter.

Don Kao lives there and had no idea of the building’s significance when he moved in.

“He actually worked on my apartment,” Kao said. “I did not know that until I moved-in and they said, ‘This is the apartment that Jimmy Carter worked on,’ and I said, ‘Oh my God, I feel badly.’ I didn’t even meet the guy.”

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The year was 1984 and the former president was already out of office and had volunteered to help restore the building which was Habitat for Humanity’s first project in New York City.

“When I got there, I saw a terrible six-story building,” Carter said. “It was …