CHARAS supporters are pulling out all the stops to determine the identity of the mystery buyer who purchased their Lower East Side arts center at a city auction.
A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
The tenements of the Lower East Side went up a century ago with cheap construction and shaky foundations. Today, a new housing boom threatens to bring these buildings down, one…