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Article: Burning Down the Houses.(Earth Liberation Front tries to stop urban growth in rural Long Island)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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The Earth Liberation Front Targets Long Island Sprawl
An hour east of New York City, along the former rural Route 25A, the occasional roadside nursery and peach farm stand out like orphans among the business strips and office tracts of the island's North Shore. The farms are fast disappearing in Suffolk County, and the way developer Lennard Axxin sees it, the land he bought from a former sod farmer "is worth a lot more as land for real-estate development than as land for broccoli." Even if you can manage to make a living as a farmer on Long Island, he adds, "you're really under-utilizing your property." The staccato punch of pneumatic hammers drives his point ...