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Harlem fights to protect its turf

With a tornado of change about to blow through 125th Street, a group of Harlem residents is fighting back.

What they're looking to stop is the city's plan to rezone the central artery of the neighborhood to allow denser, taller buildings, which some fear will displace local businesses and long-time residents.

"This document would do to us what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans,"...

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