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May 20, 2006
FCRC Mute On Atlantic Yards Security In Event of Terror Attack
Courier-Life:
If terrorists decide to target the Nets basketball arena planned for Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, it is unclear how the arena’s developer would keep the team’s fans safe, or how the 19,000 people that the arena is planned to seat would be evacuated.
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What is clear is that the possibility of a terrorist attack in the area is real, and according to Alan Rosner, a retired strategic and business analyst, will become greater should the contentious Atlantic Yards project come to fruition.Rosner, who is the co-author of “Terrorism, Security and the Proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards High Rise and Arena Development Project,” a report released in July 2005, says he is concerned that the design of the arena project will invite terrorism to a region that is already a prime target because of its proximity to the Atlantic Avenue train station and three major thoroughfares: Atlantic Avenue, Flatbush Avenue and Fourth Avenue.
Posted by amy at May 20, 2006 10:49 AM