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Protesters fight to save Willets Point

Hundreds of opponents of the Bloomberg administration's plan to pave over Willets Point in Queens marched past Mets tailgaters yesterday during a rally to keep one of the city's grittiest industrial neighborhoods intact.

"This is a classic eminent-domain case where the city wants to push out small businessmen and working people so they can give it to a multimillion-dollar developer," said...

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