East Village activist John Penley plans to camp out in front of Ben "The Sledgehammer" Shaoul's office this weekend in order to protest Shaoul's treatment of 88-year-old tenant Taylor Mead. Mead, former friend of Andy Warhol, has lived in a unit on Ludlow Street for 34 years, and now his home is falling apart and infested with roaches as the boy king developer renovates the rest of the building. Penley wants Shaoul to give Mead a renovated ground floor unit, rent-free, which we highly doubt Shaoul will do. [EVG; previously]
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