Homeless individuals in the East Village engaged police in an hours-long standoff in a vain effort to stop the NYPD, Sanitation Department and the Department of Social Services from breaking up their encampment.
A handful of unhoused individuals on East 9th Street and Avenue B have claimed a small patch of sidewalk for their own with tents and other crude materials to protect them from the elements, dubbing it Anarchy Row. For quite some time, this group has kept to themselves, trying to stay warm and dry and build an environment that provides some semblance of safety.
