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CITY SEIZES HOMESTEADS
Jane Churchman

May 30 1995 L.E.S. Nyc Posted by Picasa
"You're bullies! Just like bullies in the school yard! Didn't your Momma teach you right!"
screamed a woman who works at the local school at New York police officers standing
behind barriers on Avenue B. "I'm just doing my job." "So were the Nazis," rebutted a
young man from Switzerland. It was Tuesday, May 30, the morning after Memorial Day,
when veterans of foreign wars had paraded down the streets of a free America.

May 30 1995 L.E.S. Nyc Posted by Picasa

May 30 1995 L.E.S. Nyc Posted by Picasa
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