Posted on September 25, 2015 by Jessica Glenza in The Guardian The Guardian, By Jessica Glenza As Pope Francis visited uptown Manhattan with messages of support and tolerance, especially for the poor, a Harlem neighborhood struggled over how to respond to a persistent homeless population, many of whom have been evicted from an underpass in the neighborhood. Police removed an encampment from under a train overpass about one month ago, residents said. It was a change for which local residents lobbied for more than one year.