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March 15, 2007
Residents Rejoice After High-Rise Sunset Park Development Is Blocked
NY1
Local group successfully beats back overdevelopment in their lowrise neighborhood and vows to keep fighting.
Residents rejoiced Sunday after blocking the construction of a high-rise apartment building in their low-rise neighborhood in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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"I think that when the community come united and unified against a project with the same objectives they know they can accomplish a lot,” said Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz.The group says it plans to keep fighting what it calls "out of context development" in Sunset Park.
NoLandGrab: People in Prospect Heights and Ft. Greene scratch their heads when everyone rejoices when neighborhoods like Sunset Park and South Slope beat the developer creep, when at the end of the day Prospect Heights and Ft. Greene remain fighting alone against the densest residential project in the nation.s history.
More proof that ALL politics is local.
Posted by lumi at March 15, 2007 6:43 AM