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July 26, 2005
Pass up Yards sale, boro pols urge MTA
NY Daily News
by Deborah Kolben
Assemblymember James Brennan (D-Park Slope) and City Councilmember David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights) joined forces to send a letter to the MTA requesting that the public authority stop negotiations and hold off selling the Atlantic Railyards until a city-approved plan is in place.
Yassky:
"They've done this backwards. I think it's premature to agree on a sale price before there is an approved development plan."
Brennan, referring to both the Ratner and Extell plans:
"Each one of them is too big. They're stuffing between 15,000 and 18,000 people into less than 10 acres."
Posted by lumi at July 26, 2005 7:46 AM