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Lake Meadows

CTL-E-0880 · Address · site · 1948-1954

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

New York Life's 1,640-unit urban-renewal redevelopment; displaced thousands of Black residents from 100+ cleared acres.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:housing-lake-meadows; source research type(s): place.

Sources

Record CTL-E-0880 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 3 sources · CTL research: BVM-005.
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