A grass-roots group pushes hard and wins a 70-acre greenbelt in one of the nation's densest urban areas.
"After a 16-year battle in which the people of Brooklyn took on condominium developers, commercial real estate tycoons, and skeptical city and state officials, they have finally won the right and a $150 million commitment to turn this pier and the 70 acres around it into a park... But the perseverance of grass-roots groups that wanted to transform the area into a neighborhood-friendly mix of greenspace and paean to the area's past as a shipping port, military staging ground, and key stop on the underground railroad ultimately inspired Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki."
Thanks to Laura Kranz
Read the full story: In populous Brooklyn, a park for people to unwind
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