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June 20, 2007
EMINENT DOMAINIA: The Big Apple Bites
WEST HARLEM
NYC Indy Media Center, A Community Burdened With Columbia's Need to Expand
Protesters of Columbia University's expansion into West Harlem hit another roadblock Monday when the City Planning Commission certified the school's application to re-zone Manhattanville. Now Community Board 9 is squeezed to come up with opposing recommendations over the next 60 days.
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Columbia President Lee Bollinger even refused to take eminent domain off the table, a power normally reserved for public institutions, which Columbia—in spite of Bollinger’s arguments to the contrary—is not. With eminent domain, Columbia could conceivably force Manhattanville landowners onto the streets.
DUFFIELD ST, BROOKLYN
UndergroundRailroadSafeHouses.org, Photos from yesterday's press conference
City Councilmembers Letitia James and John Liu expressed their support to Duffield St. homeowners Joy Chatel and Lew Greenstein at yesterday's press conference. Chatel and Greenstein are trying to stop the city from taking their historic homes, which are slated to be demolished to make way for a parking garage.
Duffield St. Headlines:
AP, via Houston Chronicle, Battle Over Possible NY Slave Quarters
City Room (NY Times), A Juneteenth Riddle: Was Duffield Street a Stop on the Underground Railroad?
NY Sun, Opinion, History on Duffield Street
The Gowanus Lounge, Another Effort to Save Duffield St. Underground Railroad Houses
Posted by lumi at June 20, 2007 8:49 AM