A federal judge has temporarily blocked a plan by New York City to turn over to private developers two Civil War-era Brooklyn structures he says are located in protected parkland.
In granting a preliminary injunction, Eastern District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano ruled that the National Park Service violated federal law by removing the Tobacco Warehouse and the Empire Stores from federally protected parkland.
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