http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/housing+cory_booker PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11952 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11952 November 20, 2006<br />The Hard Part<br />Evicted From a Blighted Street, Newark's Mayor Finds Another<br />By ANDREW JACOBS<p>NEWARK, Nov. 19 - The magenta &quot;praise the Lord&quot; throw pillows: trash. The Black Santa holiday tie: a keeper. The lime-green dress shirt:</p><p>&quot;It's not mayoral,&quot; said an aide with unconcealed disdain. Into the charity pile it went.</p><p>On Mayor Cory A. Booker's final night at his bachelor-pad apartment in Brick Towers last Monday, there were important sartorial decisions to be made before the movers arrived. After living in one of the city's most notoriously troubled buildings - where heat, hot water and elevator service were often in short supply - since 1998, Mr. Booker and two dozen other holdouts were being evicted to make way for the bulldozers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><br />