The Municipality of Cataño is engaged in an ambitious push to transform its historic waterfront into a high-end gastronomic tourism zone. By EVA LAUREANO After decades of surviving the relentless grit of New York’s construction industry, 76-year-old retired contractor Eliseo Mena in 2011 was able to trade the city’s gray skyline for the turquoise horizon of Cataño, only to find his hard-earned sanctuary under siege. His beachfront property, a vacation home, has been swept into a controversial...