Mayor de Blasio's tentative plans to build affordable housing on up to 17 undeveloped city-owned sites where community gardens now stand are opening old wounds for some East Village residents. In 2000, a beloved community garden was plowed down under a similar guise. But now, the Times reports, apartments in the garden-replacing building rent at market rather than affordable rates. The de Blasio administration maintains that any housing built on temporary gardens would be 100-percent affordable. [NYT; previously]
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