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Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City,Used
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Though New Yorks Lower East Side today is home to highend condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, openair drug dealing, and class conflictan emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and 80s Manhattan.Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and Europeanstyle squatting in a way never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned cityowned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. Amy Starecheski here not only tells a littleknown New York story, she also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in postrecession America.
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