Evicted, Newark's Mayor Finds Another Blighted Street

A nice article about Cory on the front page of yesterday's NYT.  If anyone was worried that becoming mayor might go to his head, fear not!

 

Last week, after a search of some of the most menacing corners of this down-and-out city, Mayor Booker began unpacking his Hugo Boss and Custom House suits in his new apartment on Hawthorne Avenue. It is a $1,200-a-month three-bedroom apartment in a building on a browbeaten stretch of Newark’s South Ward, where boarded-up homes outnumber inhabited ones and crack dealers hawk their product outside an elementary school.

 

There goes the neighborhood. Again.

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Evicted, Newark’s Mayor Finds Another Blighted Street

 

By ANDREW JACOBS

Published: November 20, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/nyregion/20newark.html

 

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.