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street from a neighborhood standpoint?

The battle was won in part, a very small part, by the efforts of this community group and myself where we did not harass but we brought every single department down there to enforce the law -- parking and crowd control. I mean we really tried to enforce the law. It was funny: they appointed an ombudsman -- that's what we called them at that time -- and do you know who it was? It was James Marcus, the crook, right? Lindsay appointed him. You have to understand: these people are so smart that they distrusted him before it became public that he was a crook. They didn't know what he was ultimately convicted for, which was dealing with the mafia in giving them a contract to clean out some reservoir up in the Bronx. But they immediately surmised that he was working with the coffee house operators, not in our interests but in the coffee house operators’ interests, to protect them against the community's efforts to reduce their proliferation and efforts in the area. I don't know what else I can say about that.

Well, I'm just a little confused here.

Oh, how they finally got out of the area.