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  • Why Chelsea's Robert Fulton Houses tenants feel abandoned over a squatter

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📰 News we're reading

• NYC tenants beg for help as squatter terrorizes NYCHA housing project (nypost.com) — Residents of Chelsea's Robert Fulton Houses say a long-term squatter and his guests have turned upper floors into a dangerous, drug-fueled encampment, leaving tenants feeling terrified in their own homes. Despite repeated NYPD visits, arrests, and a NYCHA lawsuit, the man allegedly remains in the West 17th Street building, highlighting broader problems with squatters in public housing citywide.
   

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