Earlier this week, a former squat, the Bullet Space at 292 East 3rd Street in the East Village, was turned over to its residents. Or, as the NY Post puts it, "Nearly 30 years after an eclectic group of poets, performers, anarchists and artists illegally occupied a burned-out East Village tenement, they've officially become a Manhattan co-op." more ›

There's a sprawling but informative article in this week's Villager about the state of some former East Village squats that have been made into legal residences through an unprecedented deal with the city—a deal that some squatters are now calling raw. Long story short, the squatters were allowed to stay in the buildings after the city agreed to sell them for $1 each in 2002 to the nonprofit Urban Homesteading Assistance Board [UHAB], which promised to get them up to code within a year. more ›