http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/waterfront_development+teenagers+parks PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/10421 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/10421 <p>The Kids of Christopher Street<br />By STEVEN KURUTZ</p><p>...</p><p>The pier itself has been transformed in recent years, and the changes have heightened tensions between residents and the pier kids. Once a crumbling and desolate area that gay men and teenagers claimed for themselves and fashioned into a sort of West Side Casbah, the pier has become a buzzing, crowded part of Hudson River Park.<br /><br /></p>