Protecting Maple Street Community Garden In the News

(Brooklyn, NY - October 26, 2015) Senator Jesse Hamilton's efforts to use eminent domain to preserve the Maple Street Community Garden is the subject of stories by Rachel Holliday Smith of DNAinfo New York and Nathan Tempey of Gothamist. DNAinfo reports on the protracted court battle leading up to the current dispute. Gothamist highlights Senator Hamilton's comment on the need to use eminent domain to protect the community, "How come we can have eminent domain for the Barclays Center and not have eminent domain for the constituents of the community?"