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City woman leads charge against eminent domain
Joy Chatel learned in 2004 that the city was planning to use eminent domain to take her 150-year-old Brooklyn house, possibly a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Little did she know then that a court settlement reached last week would not only let her keep her home, but would galvanize a citywide movement against the practice of seizing private property.
"I don't want to say that we...
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