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November 25, 2005
We need some take & give
Crushing eminent domain will deny jobs and housing to those who need it the most
NY Daily News
Columnist, Errol Louis
Ratner booster Errol Louis gives his take on local critics fighting eminent domain abuse in Prospect Heights and cites past Supreme Court rulings to make his case:
Opponents of the project, who have a reputation for shrillness, act as if forcing a few holdouts to sell their property to make the project possible is somehow un-American - as if the state-run Empire State Development Corp., the lead public agency, were hell-bent on seizing people's homes and businesses and throwing them out in the street, penniless.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
NoLandGrab: Errol Louis cites public assistance statistics for Community Board 8 as a reason that Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project must be built.
It is important to remember that the footprint of the project is in Community Boards 2, 6 & 8; therefore, the full impacts of the project for everyone living near the project, positive and negative, must be assessed in the decision of whether the coercive powers of eminent domain should be used in this case.
Posted by lumi at November 25, 2005 9:22 AM