A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away

“An article in some editions on Jan. 30 about an exhibition celebrating an abandoned tenement on East Third Street and the squatters who made it their home in 1986 included an erroneous account from one squatter about his involvement. The squatter, Andrew Castrucci, who had said that he was present on the first day that squatters explored the building and that he used a sledgehammer to enter a rear doorway, now says he recalls being at the building sometime after squatters first broke in, but not on the first day, and that someone else first used the sledgehammer on the rear doorway of the tenement, at 292 East Third Street.”