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Shadow Group Backs Towers That Would Shade Botanic Garden

It's just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn't made a strand of saffron in 20 years. Next door, barbed-wire walls frame an empty square of gravel.

It's just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn't made a strand of saffron in 20 years. Next door, barbed-wire walls frame an empty square of gravel. A yellowing smokestack soars above the stout brick buildings nearby.

But in recent months, the decrepit property has become the locus of an intense rezoning battle, stirring up long-festering concerns in Central Brooklyn over gentrification, development and affordable housing. And a new one: shadows.

Continuum Company founder Ian Bruce Eichner, the former spice factory at 960 Franklin Avenue and a rendering of what he proposes to build there (Getty, Google Maps, Continuum Company) It's just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn't made a strand [...]




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