"VACATE," giant red letters proclaimed. "The Department of Buildings has determined that conditions in these premises are imminently perilous to life." The last line threatened arrest for anyone violating the order to vacate the property. Scrawled across the top was the phone number for the Red Cross shelter, presumably offering a safe place to stay while displaced. Each document just listed "transients" where the tenants would have normally been named individually.
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