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November 10, 2009
475 dean
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Today it became clear that FCR is planning on taking down a beautiful building, 475 Dean Street, that used to house artists. All of the owners sold to the developer because they feared that their homes would be seized by eminent domain if they didn't. Sam the Violin maker was featured in an earlier slide show but I wanted to put up most of the pictures I took in his place to show how UNBLIGHTED the apartments in this building were.
NoLandGrab: We suppose that replacing a Brooklyn violin maker living with his family in a warm, plant-filled live/work loft with a Manhattanite corporate attorney sitting in a luxury suite is the Empire State Development Corporation's idea of "blight removal."
Posted by eric at November 10, 2009 3:09 PM