They were the most unsightly evidence of a city in decline -- 5,000 vacant lots taken over by New York from delinquent taxpayers during the 1970 's and 80 's , strewn with weeds and garbage , dotting the landscape from central Brooklyn to Harlem to the north shore of Staten Island .
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