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Plans for Oreo’s historic NYC home drawing fire

By Karen Matthews
Published June 9, 2012 3:59pm ET
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Plans for Oreo’s historic NYC home drawing fire
In this May 30, 2012 photo, Michael Phillips, Jamestown Properties Chief Executive Officer, right, visits Jacob Dickson, owner of Dickson's Farmstand Meats, a Chelsea Market butchery, at Chelsea Market in New York. One hundred years after the introduction of the Oreo, the complex that was once the former home to Nabisco is slated for an expansion many neighborhood residents oppose. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) | Bebeto Matthews

NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years after the introduction of the Oreo, an expansion plan at the iconic cookie’s New York City birthplace has left a bitter taste in the mouths of its neighbors.

Community activists say the two new towers that developer Jamestown Properties wants to affix to the historic factory known as Chelsea Market would be eyesores and would increase traffic and congestion.

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