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September 10, 2007
The Case Of The Duffield Street Homes
The Brooklyn Rail
By Emma Rebhorn
The Rail lays out the case for the historical significance of the homes on Duffield St., which are under threat of eminent domain abuse (aka, the "other" land grab):
What might be referred to as The Case of the Duffield Street Homes has come to involve a shadowy consulting firm, congressmen, a grandmother and former hairstylist and a former employee of New York City’s department of finance. In reality, though, the story begins more than two hundred and fifty years ago in the decades preceding the Civil War, radical abolitionists established the Underground Railroad, a large-scale project of civil disobedience.
The Duffield St. Underground blog explains that, "The article also describes the physical evidence that didn't fit into the city's narrative."
And, in case you're counting, US Congressional Representative Yvette Clarke has expressed her support for saving the Duffield St. homes, again.
Posted by lumi at September 10, 2007 8:13 AM