The long backstretch to new homes 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, January 24, 2001
By admin

For years, more than 200 “backstretch” workers, who tend racehorses at Laurel Park, lived in one-room cinderblock units with concrete floors, bare light bulbs dangling from the ceiling and communal bathrooms. Then a team of public and private organizations turned the shacks into real homes.[IMGCAP(2)]“It was the worst housing I have ever seen,” said Kathleen ...