… Kids play there, tour groups come by, it has been used in films, people come here for their wedding pictures because it’s so beautiful,” Landes said. “Public use is the paramount issue when it comes to determining whether something is a public road or not. The city plan is not the beginning and end of making that decision.”
“The Colonial-period landowner and his heirs never chose to give it to the city and that’s not as uncommon as you’d think,” DiMarco said. “The city doesn’t want it. It’s not on their plan. They don’t want it on their plan.”
The Landeses filed court documents last month saying the city should take official ownership of the disputed land. They and other like-minded neighbors, some with “Save Irving Street” fliers in their windows, say the claim about prostitutes and drug users frequenting the dead-end is a red herring that hints at an unstated goal: gating it off and blocking public access.

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