Renovating a Building, and Perhaps a Suburb’s Image

Publication: NYTimes.com

EAST ORANGE, N.J., Aug. 11 — In the cold nomenclature of tax assessors and municipal records, it is known as Lot: 2, Block: 280, District: 5. Before its once-proud apartments were abandoned to squatters and gangs, it was called the Mayfair, a label that now seems wildly out of place in this struggling city. ...