VIDEO: Gardeners, community members protesting 80 Flatbush development say “Don’t Block Our Sunlight”
Members of Brooklyn Bear’s Rockwell Garden alongside dozens of neighbors from Fort Greene and Boerum Hill, marched around 80 Flatbush Ave. on Thursday while chanting “save our sunlight,” to protest a proposed 925-foot tower at the site that would block natural light to the garden.
The supertall skyscraper is planned to rise diagonally across the meadow, which is bordered by Rockwell Place and Flatbush and Lafayette avenues.
“80 Flatbush with the 78-story tower would be threatening our sunlight for most of the day and throw this garden into shadow,” said Ron Janoff, coordinator of Rockwell Place Brooklyn Bear’s Community Garden.
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