New York Neighborhoods Fight Land Grabs: Public Parks Going to Professional Teams

Authors

Donovan Finn, Stony Brook UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

Parks, gentrification, urban development, environmental justice

Abstract

In the diverse New York City borough of Queens, local activists banded together in the early 2000's to fight back against a trio of city-led urban development projects intended to provide public parkland to private real estate developers.

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Recommended Citation

Finn, Donovan, "New York Neighborhoods Fight Land Grabs: Public Parks Going to Professional Teams" (2013). School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications. 10.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/somas_articles/10