NJ man put knife to woman's throat

The violence of the original viaduct development should be recalled, not recreated.. Coupled with the imminent passage of the DEOD local area plan in November, gentrifiers have begun to sharpen their knives, ready to devour new investment opportunities. The new normal of "revitalization with despair" will cannibalize the remaining affordable housing stock, small family-run businesses, and the lives of low-income people in the DTES. And for the poorest of the poor homeless people, IV drug users, unemployed immigrants, disabled residents, sex workers and residential hotel tenants -- this despair can be lethal.Located directly across from the Georgia viaduct freeway, the Main Street off-ramps, and up the block from the Jimi Hendrix shrine, is where the Hogan's Alley black community, black businesses, and the only black church of Vancouver once stood. Now, ironically, on these demolished ruins sits the "Hogan's Alley Cafe". Newly purchased by Daniel Gomez Gonzalez and Patricia Becerril Vidrio, Mexican immigrants from Mexico City and Guadaljara in 2012 to Vancouver. Gonzalez and Vidrio, the parents of two young girls, mind the shop seven days a week. Behind the cafe's front counter menu items are chalked on an enlarged blackboard and several handwritten signs are taped to the front windows, promoting the daily specials.

Chilaquiles, a Mexican staple breakfast of eggs and salsa served on a bed of melted cheese, beans and strips of corn tortillas, is a house favorite; and of course, huevos rancheros at $7.50 and the $8.50 chicken mole enchiladas never go unordered.Henckels Professional Knives  But business isn't booming and times have certainly toughened in the last six months for this immigrant family. Hogan's Alley Cafe, unlike the Cuchillo restaurant, doesn't cater to the city's pretentious gentry and doesn't have a pipeline of political connections or online foodie magazine contacts to help promote its vitality.Daniel and Patricia's cafe can't approach Cuchillo's inflated pricepoints, where "lamb bondiga mole tacos" are $14 and "wild Mexican sea prawns tapas" sells for $21.  Their $5 quesadilla is definitely no match for the sophistication of what Cuchillo chef and business partner Stu Irving described in a January, 2013 Scout Magazine interview as "honest comfort food, nothing fancy."When asked if their struggling small business can survive this gentrifying nexus of high commercial rents in Chinatown, Strathcona and the DTES neighbourhoods, Daniel observed: "We have no choice. Our life savings are in here. Neither myself or Patricia had our studies validated when we obtained residency in Canada.