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The scene at a recent town hall meeting illustrates the deep-seated anger over two planned shelters in Ridgewood, Glendale and Maspeth.
The scene at a recent town hall meeting illustrates the deep-seated anger over two planned shelters in Ridgewood, Glendale and Maspeth.
It was a late Thursday night and the auditorium of a Brooklyn junior high was filled with angry adults at a town hall meeting. The angriest was possibly Robert Holden, a middle-aged city councilman who speaks in an archy, exasperated voice that brings to mind Alan Alda when it trembles.
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