But at 4:30 A.M. on the Lower East Side in New York City, the NYPD deployed
250 officers from Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Bronx precincts, the Housing Police, and the
Emergency Service Unit to the Lower East Side. They came to evict about 100 unarmed
squatters who had been homesteading 539,541, and 545 East 13th Street for over ten
years, and whose claim of "adverse possession" to those buildings was being litigated in
State Supreme Court before Justice Elliott Wilko