One week before a tall fence was set to encircle the concrete plaza in the heart of Adams Morgan, banners that urged onlookers to “save our plaza” were ripped one by one from the red brick walls and the glass bus shelter.

The men who gathered up the fliers — before discarding them in a nearby trash can — are two of the people who may have the most to lose when the de facto town square is shuttered. They are the occupants of the tents at the far end of the plaza, and, they said recently, they’re tired of being reduced to a talking point by those who want to see the plaza razed and others fighting to save it.

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