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Hempstead marchers protest foreclosures

Originally published: January 28, 2012 8:16 PM
Updated: January 28, 2012 9:47 PM
By AISHA AL-MUSLIM  aisha.al-muslim@newsday.com

Homeowner Maribel Toure stands alongside Hempstead Mayor Wayne

Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | Homeowner Maribel Toure stands alongside Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall, right, and members of the group NY Communities for Change in front of her Carolina Avenue home during a march through the neighborhood in a symbolic attempt to take foreclosed homes back from the banks. (Jan. 28, 2012)

Homeowners facing foreclosure marched alongside neighbors and elected officials yesterday through Hempstead Village -- one of the communities most affected in the state by foreclosures -- to symbolically reclaim vacant homes from banks.

"Whose house? Our house!" they chanted during the three-block march, down Carolina Avenue to Flower Street and ending on Alabama Avenue. "Modify loans! Save...

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