Video: A Tree House Grows in Manhattan

"I saw the police were at my door and they had an order from the city to come and check out a suspicious structure in the backyard," says Melinda Hackett. The suspicious structure in question? A Greenwich Village tree house, which apparently in all its ordinariness is actually quite extraordinary in New York City.

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Hackett received an injunction and an order to appear before court but the case was just dismissed. "My kids come up here and have meetings. They use it as a clubhouse," Hackett says. "They plot. They scheme. They gossip."