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April 27, 2006
Brooklyn Broadside: ‘The End of Brooklyn as We Know It’
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Dennis Holt proves that you don't have to construct an argument to have an opinion.
In a rambling editorial disputing Atlantic Yards critics' characterization of the project as "the end of Brooklyn as we know it," Holt takes the metaphor quite literally and extrapolates it to the edges of the borough, to locales such as Floyd Bennett Field.
From there Holt touts the State's inadequate review process and then misleads his readers [emphasis added]:
Another major change to another part of Brooklyn is being engineered that will not benefit from such detailed study. It is not because everyone is lazy or has something better to do: it is simply that such work is not required by law.
Dennis Holt is referring to buildings going up as part of the ALREADY APPROVED Downtown Brooklyn Plan, a project that he conditionally supported in the pages of The Eagle.
NoLandGrab: Why is this worth mentioning?
This tactic of deflecting criticism of Atlantic Yards by pointing to other high rises currently under construction is becoming familiar and most recently has been used by our great leader Marty Markowitz.
The Downtown Brooklyn Plan brings up a good point: that the environmental impacts of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards proposal will only be compounded by development already in the pipeline.
Dennis Holt supported the Downtown Brooklyn Plan and the traffic study that accompanied it. Now that the traffic study is gathering dust on a shelf in some cubicle at the DOT, how can "Brooklyn as we know it" plan for the next wave of proposed development?
Posted by lumi at April 27, 2006 6:42 AM