When police and city officials came to break up their East Village encampment last week, the homeless residents of what they dubbed “Anarchy Row” lived up to their name, and refused to go without a fight.
The modest stretch of tents and their undomiciled inhabitants near the corner of East 9th Street and Avenue B were well known to the Tompkins Square Park crowd and were watched over by the adjacent Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish, becoming more akin to neighbors.
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