Developer who wants to raze part of New York City’s kids’ community garden dealt legal blow
Courtesy of Kate Temple-West.
The garden’s wardens also claimed Marom’s workers “unloaded dozens of containers filled with rotting garbage” onto the property.
By Priscilla DeGregory
NY Post, Oct 6, 2022
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A real estate developer who allegedly once threatened to dump a port-a-potty into a children’s community garden was found to have intentionally destroyed emails tied to his ongoing court battle over the greenspace.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley on Wednesday delivered the legal blow to David Marom — who wants to bulldoze part of the Children’s Magical Garden on the Lower East Side — and his company The Horizon Group.
Marom has been locked in a dispute with local residents seeking to protect the decades-old city oasis, which sits on the corner of Norfolk and Stanton Streets, since 2014, including fighting several lawsuits.
In the latest salvo in the case, Masley found that the developer deleted emails that could have helped the residents’ prove their accusations that he ordered his workers to “destroy trees and dump construction waste” onto the park in April 2019.
