The Times visited Crown Height's endangered Starlite Lounge and finds that story hasn't changed: they are still lease-less and their landlord wants to evict them to make "urgent repairs". But the piece seeks to pull at the readers' (and landlords) heart strings, asking the vital question, "why shouldn’t there be a bar in Crown Heights that is popular with white and black, gay and straight people ...?" Yeah, evil landlord. Why? [NYT, previously]
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