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...fish. Such things are seen not only in the South Bronx but also in Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, formerly a Jewish ghetto, now black. These areas too are worse off than they were four years ago. From a tenement roof in Long Island City, stately Sutton Place is in plain view across the East River. On the wall of a burned-out building in Harlem one sign of commerce remains: ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE...
Though these Tories had money, they weren't a majority in the city; historian S.B. Sutton estimates they comprised at best 10 per cent of the population and that many of the rest were among the colony's most rabid patriots. September 2, 1774, after the British raided a Somerville powderhouse, thousands of Cantabrigians gathered on the steps of the city's courthouse to demand action, and some shattered windows in the mansions of local Tories...
...Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard for modesty." General George Washington arrived June 17 to take command of the Continental Army in a ceremony on the Common...
...Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede" from Harvard should the law pass. That idea appealed to the Harvard Lampoon, whose members dressed in storm trooper outfits and marched down Massachusetts Avenue toward the city Hall to demand that they too be made a separate state. Sutton records that Councilor Michael (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan was descending the steps as the Poonies arrived. He tried to stop the parade, and fell to the ground in the ensuing confusion. Luckily for the opponents of Plan E, Sullivan toppled in front of a photographer whose widely-circulated picture made...
...politics and Plan E prevailed, winning every ward of the city except heavily Irish North and East Cambridge. As if to vindicate the Plan E forces, lame duckmayor John Lyons ran a disastrous administration for the intervening two years. Asked by the council to approve purchasing new snowplows, Sutton reports that Lyons replied "the Almighty sends the snow...He will in time remove it." Shortly afterwards, Lyons was convicted on 42 counts of requesting and accepting bribes. He stepped down...