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Hundreds attend Community Board 9 meeting on up-zoning of Empire Boulevard

Hundreds are fighting an up-zoning request that they think would lead to the overdevelopment of Empire Boulevard.  A Community Board 9 meeting had to move locations to accommodate the large number

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Sep 24, 2014, 12:04 PM

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