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The Hard Part
Evicted From a Blighted Street, Newark's Mayor Finds Another
By ANDREW JACOBS
NEWARK, Nov. 19 - The magenta "praise the Lord" throw pillows: trash. The Black Santa holiday tie: a keeper. The lime-green dress shirt:
"It's not mayoral," said an aide with unconcealed disdain. Into the charity pile it went.
On Mayor Cory A. Booker's final night at his bachelor-pad apartment in Brick Towers last Monday, there were important sartorial decisions to be made before the movers arrived. After living in one of the city's most notoriously troubled buildings - where heat, hot water and elevator service were often in short supply - since 1998, Mr. Booker and two dozen other holdouts were being evicted to make way for the bulldozers.
Less Housing for Residents of Average Pay, Report Says
By JANNY SCOTT
Published: June 16, 2006
The report, to be released today, for the first time puts hard numbers on a cost squeeze that has intensified with the real estate boom. The researchers found that the number of apartments affordable to households earning about $32,000 a year, or 80 percent of the median household income in the city, has dropped by 205,000 in just three years.