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Thursday October 23, 2008

A walking tour kicks off Seward Park renewal talks

New York City - In 1967, under a federal “slum-clearance” program, tenements housing 7,000 residents on a large swath of several blocks south of the Williamsburg Bridge approach were razed. As part of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area plan, low-income housing was promised to be built in return. But more than 30 years later, much of the area still lies vacant, occupied by a vast, open-air parking lot.Read More >