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...these people help themselves when all they think about is food?" asks the Fire Tender. "Give them food, and then they can put their heads and hands to work fighting misery." Although the city plans to evict Beacon from the vacant lot to build subsidized housing on the site, the Fire Tender does not intend to let his flame go out. His next temple, he says, will be in Spanish Harlem...
...City Council last night told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology not to evict a "Tent City" of homeless people on the university's land, and adopted a new program to match vacant rent-controlled apartments with needy tenants...
Although a scheduled hearing on the "Tent City" had been postponed, the Council did approve a non-binding order asking MIT not to evict the encampment of 25 people until the university has reached an "amicable solution" to the squatters' demands...
Members of the group said they could not wait a week for the City Council's attention because they feared MIT would try to evict them during the coming week. Some blamed Mayor Walter J. Sullivan Jr. for postponing the hearing until next week, because last night's agenda was too long...
...middle class is a Hasidic landlord who bugs his rent-controlled apartments in the hope that he can learn of a violation that will enable him to evict low-paying tenants. Peter Fallow, the boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother...