From Urban Village to "East Village": The Battle for New York's Lower East Side Book

	List of Plates
	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	A Note about the Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Welcome to the Neighborhood	17
Pt. I	The Past Is Still There	41
2	The Changing Economy of the Lower East Side	43
3	The Tenement as a Built Form	63
4	A History of Tompkins Square Park	81
5	Deja Vu: Replanning the Lower East Side in the 1930s	99
Pt. II	The Process Of Gentrification	121
6	Neighborhood 'Burn-out': Puerto Ricans at the End of the Queue	125
	Appendix: The Other Side of the Coin: Culture in Loisaida	141
7	From Disinvestment to Reinvestment: Mapping the Urban 'Frontier' in the Lower East Side	149
8	The Process of Gentrification in Alphabet City	169
9	Public Action: New York City Policy and the Gentrification of the Lower East Side	189
Pt. III	Contesting Community: The Issues And The Protagonists	213
10	A Resident's View of Conflict on Tompkins Square Park	217
11	The Battle for Tompkins Square Park	233
12	The Residents in Tompkins Square Park	267
13	The Squatters: A Chorus of Voices ... But Is Anyone Listening?	285
14	Defending the Cross-Subsidy Plan: The Tortoise Wins Again	313
	Conclusions And Implications	335
	Bibliography	355
	Index	375