Possible eminent domain looms over library property in East Greenbush

EAST GREENBUSH — Jack Conway has a proposition for the East Greenbush Community Library: let’s iron out a deal to buy your property, or the town will take it anyway.

Aiming to erect a new police station on what he considers ideal property — about 2 acres of grassy land near Luther Road — Conway, the East Greenbush supervisor, is willing to pursue eminent domain should officials fail to strike a deal soon.

“What I want to do here is negotiate,” Conway told the Times Union. “And eminent domain are two words that tend to focus people.”…

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