The Fight For A Park In Brooklyn

A grass-roots group pushes hard and wins a 70-acre greenbelt in one of the nation's densest urban areas.

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June 12, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

"After a 16-year battle in which the people of Brooklyn took on condominium developers, commercial real estate tycoons, and skeptical city and state officials, they have finally won the right and a $150 million commitment to turn this pier and the 70 acres around it into a park... But the perseverance of grass-roots groups that wanted to transform the area into a neighborhood-friendly mix of greenspace and paean to the area's past as a shipping port, military staging ground, and key stop on the underground railroad ultimately inspired Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: In populous Brooklyn, a park for people to unwind

Monday, June 10, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

Community / Economic Development New York

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