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Is one of the largest real estate deals in American history a requiem for middle-class New York?

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imageStuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village border the FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan.NBC New York

It’s easy to overlook the brick residential towers of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village on Manhattan’s East Side.

Designed to be uniform and rather bland, the 80-acre development gives little outward sign of the fierce conflicts over housing...

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