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May 1, 2006
Dan Zanes Newsletter: On a Brooklyn Note
Dan Zanes, a Brooklyn-based musician with fans of all ages, is blowing the whistle on Ratner's very enormous it-isn't-a-done-deal arena-and-17-extremely-large-buildings urban-planning disaster. From Zanes's most recent newsletter:
on a brooklyn note: i have signed on to help in the efforts of develop don't destroy brooklyn to fight the forest city ratner's over-development plan for the atlantic yards here in brooklyn. this project is an urban planning disaster and should be stopped in its tracks. for the longest time i wasn't paying enough attention to this situation. i thought that it was far enough away from my house that it wouldn't affect me to any great degree. i thought that it was inevitable. i was completely wrong on both counts!! this is a critical time for those of us who live in brooklyn to become engaged. 17 skyscrapers and a sports stadium is more than our communities can handle, but this plan can be defeated! for more info and updates go to http://www.dddb.net.
NoLandGrab: The most recent documents released by Ratner show 16 highrises accompanied by the arena for the project Ratner calls Atlantic Yards ("Vanderbilt Yard" is the actual name of the train yard).
Posted by lumi at May 1, 2006 8:12 AM