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When gentrification knocks on the wrong door
Published Mon, Sep 4, 2017 · 09:50 PM
New York
MONXO Lopez is a popular man. He wishes he was not.
Total strangers hound him, calling, writing and knocking on his door, all with the same question: Does he want to sell his red brick row house nestled on a historic South Bronx block in Mott Haven? When he complained to a friend who worked in real estate, the friend replied: "You know, you can get a million and a half."
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