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August 10, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
So far, all of today's news is coming from the blogosphere. Here are a couple more interesting items:
Don't Worry It's Just Reality, Bruce Ratner Supporter of the Day
"Dreadnaught" wants to set the record straight about the history of gentrification and settlement in Ft. Greene:
Amy Patrick (Letter to The Village Voice) addressing "a bunch of white people":
Basically, they don't want to happen to them what they did to the neighborhood in the first place .
Dread:
Umm, first thing Amy it was originally a WASP neighborhood, and before that Dutch farmland, and before that Indian hunting grounds, and second thing, those people that did move in didn't use eminent domain to remove other people they simply bought and renovated existing homes - often at a huge risk. And it was blacks and whites together led by Herbert Scott Gibson, a black man, who got it designated a historic area - in other words they wanted to preserve its character - something Ratner is intent on destroying.
Englishman in New York, ‘Done Deal’ Makes Depressing Reading
If, like me, you are a Brooklynite wrestling with the pros and cons of the Atlantic Yards project, you might want to take a look at this lengthy but persuasive article in New York Magazine that comes down hard in favor of the anti-development side. Interestingly, the article highlights just how much class and race are being used as a justification for the project by the pro-development camp.
Posted by lumi at August 10, 2006 7:43 AM