A fight for sunlight at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden – The Forward
Adrian Benepe, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, acknowledged during a Wednesday night virtual meeting with supporters that he was coming to them with an unusual request. “We are really going against precedent,” he said. “I’m not aware of a single other cultural institution on city property that has ever taken as bold a step as this going in opposition to a proposed development project.” He and other staff from the Botanic Garden, a 52-acre site in Crown Heights, were asking participants in the meeting to mobilize against a proposed change in zoning that would al...
Source: forward.com