An antique dealer on New York's Madison Avenue, is claiming a million dollars in damages from 4 homeless people. They've been sheltering outside his shop and he wants them stopped from coming any nearer than 100 feet of it. Guto Harri reports from New York:
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S The contrast could
[?] be starker. Inside Karl Kemp and Associates, a pair of cast iron
[?] can cost you almost seven-thousand dollars.
[?] , an aging, bearded man lies hunched up above an air vent,
[?] to keep warm in
[?] temperatures. At times he's joined by three others.
The lawsuit, filed this
[?] names them as John Doe, Jane Doe, Bob Doe and John Smith and accuses them of
[?] on the sidewalk, consuming alcohol, urinating and
[?] . Karl Kemp says he has nothing against them and would like to see them put up in a
[?] twenty blocks away. But he's concerned that customers are being put off by their
[?] .
Repeated complaints to police have
[?] nothing, but an injunction would allow the authorities to move them on. The claim for a million dollars in
[?] was apparently necessary for
[?] legal reasons and there's no
[?] of that aspect of the action being enforced.
Guto Harri, BBC News, New York