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August 30, 2006
Not Just an Ordinary Basement
Brooklyn Downtown Star covers Brooklyn's other land grab, where the city wants to replace the Underground Railroad with underground parking.
If a row of antebellum houses on Duffield Street are torn down to make way for a parking garage, then Brooklyn will lose access to a huge facet of its multi-racial history, and a dozen young children of color will lose access to a summer school for musical theater.
Both of these current resources were on full display last Saturday afternoon, as Joy Chatel and Lew Greenstein offered tours of their basements - which were likely used by DoBro abolitionists to hide fugitive slaves during the 1850s - to politicians and passersby.
Posted by lumi at August 30, 2006 9:00 AM