Hundreds of protesters took to the steps of City Hall yesterday to express their dismay over a plan to replace community gardens with affordable housing. Per the Observer: "Community activists and elected representatives alike gathered in the hope of removing the gardens off the HPD's list of properties to be made available for development, the argument being that one social benefitspurring affordable housing constructionshould not come at the cost of destroying another." [NYO; previously]
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