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April 26, 2007
Blight Me: Is "Developer Blight" a New Brooklyn Tactic?
Gowanus Lounge
The other day, protesters were out on Flatbush Avenue to speak out against the "premature demolition" of buildings in the Atlantic Yards footprint by Forest City Ratner. On Sunday, we gazed at the big lot at Bedford Avenue and N. 3rd Street in Williamsburg that is half empty and has had a half-demolished building for almost a year. On Saturday, we were wandering around Coney Island, shooting photos of a huge fence erected by Thor Equities.
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It's not hard to imagine that one of these orgies of premature demolition won't leave beind a wasteland....
GL mentions Edgemere as a point of reference.
Posted by lumi at April 26, 2007 10:05 AM