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A city official's comments during a neighborhood planning meeting got residents fired up.
A city official's comments during a neighborhood planning meeting got residents fired up.
A few weeks ago, Winston Von Engel, director of the Department of City Planning’s Brooklyn office, shocked attendees at a community meeting when he said that New York City intends to preserve the character and the buildings in Bushwick, but not the people in them.
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