Life Among the Village People
Museums
BY LANCE ESPLUND
December 10, 2004
http://www.nysun.com/article/6130
In 1985, I moved into a roach-infested East Village sublet on 3rd Street between Avenues B and C. Squatters and crackheads had taken over some of the abandoned, graffiti-covered buildings on the block, and heroin dealers, drug addicts, and prostitutes crowded my entryway. But, at $360 a month, I thought it was a steal.