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2013

Gentrification

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New York Neighborhoods Fight Land Grabs: Public Parks Going To Professional Teams, Donovan Finn Jan 2013

New York Neighborhoods Fight Land Grabs: Public Parks Going To Professional Teams, Donovan Finn

School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

In the diverse New York City borough of Queens, local activists banded together in the early 2000's to fight back against a trio of city-led urban development projects intended to provide public parkland to private real estate developers.