After decades of battling with Lower East Side residents who hijacked vacant city buildings to make them their own, the city has agreed to help these renegades turn their squats into their own low-income co-ops.
While the City Council calls for building a massive public market on the old Trade Center site, a similar project has been proposed for Hunts Point, where the area’s best shopping is wholesale, and therefore off limits to local residents
Months of conflict within one of the city’s most prominent community development groups recently came to a head when the board of the Mid Bronx Desperadoes replaced its longtime president, Ralph Porter.
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