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Members of the City Council say they didn’t expect the cuts included in the budget they passed this month to be as damaging to schools as some principals have reported.
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 allow for a new 39-story development about 150 feet from the Garden.