Lex Street Reborn

N. Lex Street as it appears today with the porticoed and rail-porched, accessorized redbrick rowhouses the Public Housing Authority built to replace the block’s decrepit and abandoned buildings, which the Authority bulldozed in 2002. Number 816 (at left in the photo), in its earlier coming-apart version, was the crack-house site of the notorious “Lex Street Massacre.”