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January 16, 2006
It Was Wrong 9 Months Ago, And It Still Is
The Brooklyn Downtown Star published a letter from Gib Veconi, Chairman of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, decrying "the reprise Theodore Ross’ attempt to link community concerns about Forest City Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards project to race issues."
The agitation around race and the Atlantic Yards proposal displayed at the February 2005 meeting Mr. Ross covered can now be confirmed to have been caused by individuals who were at the time working with the project’s developer to secure contracts for their organizations. Unfortunately, the disturbance at the PHNDC meeting was typical of the political theater groups seeking a financial role in the Forest City Ratner project put on at many public events during 2005. This is the real story in retrospective analysis, while the issue of a real racial divide on Atlantic Yards at the end of 2005 remains unsubstantiated fiction.
Posted by lumi at January 16, 2006 7:50 AM