An EVG reader shared the following photos... someone had moved into the curbside dining structure on Ninth Street at Avenue C outside the temporarly closed Esperanto...
The man, and the various items that he has collected, had been in the Ninth Street space since this past Saturday. We're told that nearby residents had called 311 and other city agencies about the encampment...
By this afternoon, some workers — unsure who sent them — arrived to remove the roof from the curbside space...
... and eventually the man's items had been moved to the sidewalk...
In recent weeks, several curbside spaces at currently closed bars-restaurants have temporarily been turned into encampments... including
outside Lucy's on Avenue A...