Squatters of the Lower East Side
99% Invisible
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New York City in the 1980s
In the 1980s, squatters would occupy more than a dozen old tenements on the Lower East Side. These misfits and outcasts would eventually manage to do something kind of incredible: They'd resist eviction by the city for almost two decades. Holding on to many of the buildings has the neighborhood around them rapidly gentrified.
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