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Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Tall tower, high rents

By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown plan: Talk about the Manhattanization of Brooklyn: A new mega-development slated for the booming border of Fort Greene and Downtown is being built by the same real-estate giant that built a luxury Xanadu with a Whole Foods in the lobby on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Comments (1).

A ‘historic’ effort

By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill activists are pulling out all the stops to protect the “character” of their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Comment.

Offer adds up to mulch

By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: Win a free composter … and a free lesson on how to use it! Comment.
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