Lewanne Jones
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Lewanne Jones Jones
Jim Fleming and his companion, Lewanne Jones, 53, an archivist, live in a 2,700-square-foot loft, with painted wooden floors and homemade wooden shelves holding Mr. Fleming's personal library of 60,000 volumes, for which they had paid $787.35 a month since 1985. Mr. Fleming and Ms. Jones, who have two children away in college, acknowledged that the rates they paid before joining the rent strike were well below market. At times in the 1980's, Ms. Jones said, she was awakened by the sound of cars burning in the street outside; she said thieves would bring the cares there, strip them, and set them afire to dispose of them.