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June 29, 2007

Well Over a Hundred on City Hall Steps (protest Eminent Domain Abuse)

Bankhoff-JB.jpgHistoric Districts Council Newsstand

A broad-based coalition of property owners, tenants, advocates, elected officials and citizens gathered yesterday on the oven-like steps of New York's City Hall to voice opposition to epidemic abuse of eminent domain in New York City and New York State.

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NoLandGrab: What HDC's account fails to report is that their own Simeon Bankoff (picture right) scored the best soundbite of the day, explaining that "eminent domain is the thermo-nuclear warhead of city planning."

Posted by lumi at June 29, 2007 9:08 AM