The rogues’ gallery line-up mug shot portrayed in the fall edition of Easton, Pennsylvania-located Lafayette College’s official quarterly newspaper Lafayette Magazine introduces residents and business owners of the Downtown Easton and College Hill neighborhoods to the public and private officials responsible for the “public-private partnership” oligarchy’s urban Bushkill Village community of the kinds described in today’s edition of The New York Times in an article titled “Rural Colleges Seek New Edge and Urbanize.”

Though Lafayette College is not an urban , located as it is in the Bushkill Creek Corridor flood plain on N. 3rd St. between Bushkill Street in Easton’s downtown neighborhood and College Drive in the city’s neighborhood of College Hill, south to north, it fits the description of the villages described by the Times.

A difference not mentioned, however, is that the west-to-east corridor along Bushkill Creek  between N. 13th St. in Easton’s West Ward neighborhood and the 200 block of N. 3rd St. with 33 privately owned properties has been designated by the City of Easton as blighted and “taken” by Easton and/or its Redevelopment Authority under the threat of eminent domain if the owners refuse “voluntarily” to accede to the authorities’ demands.

The property is in the fact being stolen, in the tradition of Pennsylvania’s Walking Purchase of 1737 fraud in which the Commonwealth’s founder William Penn’s son Thomas defrauded the Delaware-Lenape Tribe of 315 acres it owned in Easton’s neighboring municipality to the west, Forks Township, based on information Billy Bytes publications has learned from the corridors property owners and in an article published in the fall 2006 edition of The Elucidator, a quarterly magazine published and distributed in the Easton area.

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster are also embarked on the development of urban villages.

Lafayette College’s Bushkill Village is being developed with public and private grants from the from federal, Pennsylvania State, Northampton County and City of Easton grants as well as grants from the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation  authority (LANTA) and Lafayette College in the amount of millions of dollars, including millions of taxpayer dollars.

This money is being disbursed under the “authority,” never challenged in Pennsylvania courts, of the Keystone Innovation  Zone statute legislated and signed into law by Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell in 2004.

The ceremony in which the Governor awarded the City of Easton $9 million toward the development of Bushkill Village was held in the Morris R. Williams Visual Arts Center located in the 200 block of N. 3rd St.