Guest Editorial by Viveca Diaz Why is Costco moving into non-middle income neighborhoods like East Harlem when they don’t accept food stamps? They want to live on the land of the people, but they don’t want people of the land who receive federal assistance to purchase food from their stores. Box-box stores built in disadvantaged…
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Business & Residents Alliance of East Harlem vs. East River Plaza, et al. Round 2
Oral arguments were held September 27th in a case brought against the East River Plaza project in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in lower Manhattan. The federal lawsuit was first launched in 2003 by the Business and Residents Alliance of East Harlem (BARA) against various defendants, including the U.S. Department…
