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Brooklyn redevelopment faces Underground Railroad conflict

The city's vision for a massive, multibillion-dollar redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn ran into more impassioned objections Monday at a public hearing debating whether the city can destroy homes that may have been stops on the Underground Railroad.

"It's my opinion that [the city] is being driven by the [the city's] Economic Development Corp.," said Councilwoman Letitia James (Working Families,...

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