Posted on February 24, 2014 by Maura Ewing in Aljazeera America Aljazeera America, By Maura Ewing Last October a man, whom we’ll call Steve, walked around the apartment where he resided in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, part of a three-building complex of identical redbrick structures stretching down a side street. (All residents’ names have been changed to protect their privacy.) He lived on the second floor of a crowded three-bedroom duplex apartment.
