Editorial note: This work is excerpted and adapted from a larger paper written for a Senior Honors Thesis in the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University’s Undergraduate College of Arts And Sciences during the academic year 1998-1999.

“In rem� is the term for tax-foreclosed buildings.

A comparison of his 1968 Daedalus article and the Report Of the National Commission on Civil Disorders’s 16th and 17th chapters reveals that the two are almost identical.

For example, Mayor Giuliani was forced to return significant campaign donations from developers after the Campaign Finance Board ruled them to be illegal. News coverage during the 2000 Senate Campaign revealed $11,000 in returned past illegal donations from BFC Developers’ principals. BFC has been an active developer in District 3, responsible for the demolition of many community gardens. (As reported in the New York News Media in February-March 2000)