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July 10, 2012
Film Review – Battle For Brooklyn
Reel Review Roundup
by Julian Wright
Oy! Loyal Down Under NoLandGrab readers won't want to miss this upcoming screening in Perth — on Friday the 13th, no less.
Battle For Brooklyn
Directed by: Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky
Starring: Daniel Goldstein, Shabnam Merchant, Letitia James, Bruce Ratner
Four stars
What would you do if you discovered the land your house sat on was earmarked for a commercial development? Not only your house would be demolished to make way for it, but hundreds of other people’ s homes and businesses as well. Would you take the money offered to you by the developer and relocate? Or would you stay and fight? Daniel Goldstein stayed and fought a long, exhausting and drawn out fight in this familiar David versus Goliath story of a community that would not lay down to a conglomerate that wanted to bulldoze an old and established section of Brooklyn full of history for a sports arena and a few skyscrapers.
Posted by eric at July 10, 2012 10:35 AM