1.   City officials and advocates for the homeless agree that the tight-knit community in the coal bins was the last homeless encampment in Manhattan.

2.   Gone are the smoking coal bins and the elaborate lifeboat scenes, replaced by suggestive scrims.

3.   He also must replenish the small coal bins in front of the huge ovens.

4.   Teri Davis reckoned she had no use for that coal bin.

5.   The sole holiday is a stretch of solitary confinement in a coal bin.

6.   Three bins down from Eason, Hector Famora lived in what was probably the most luxuriously furnished room in the coal bins.

7.   When asked about shelter life, the residents of the coal bins laugh or shake their heads in disgust.