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August 8, 2006
Keeps coming from Blogosphere...
More response to Chris Smith's New York Magazine article from the bitstream:
Gowanus Lounge, New York Magazine Looks Under the Atlantic Yards Rock
Commentary on the NY Magazine article vs. the NY Times endorsement:
When all is said and done, Smith provides us with an excellent send-up of Atlantic Yards that makes the Times perfunctory editorial endorsement look intellectually challenged and ethically suspect.
We keep wondering whether one article or endorsement trumps another, but the real question may be whether any of this matters. The Atlantic Yards battle is likely to take place inside a courtroom and on the pages of massive legal briefs unless, of course, a powerful New York political leader experiences some sort of epiphany and turns on the project. It is hard to imagine Eliot Spitzer or Christine Quinn doing more than questioning the shut-up-and-take-your-medicine nature of the Atlantic Yards process.
As Smith points out..., Atlantic Yards has turned into one of the most anti-democratic development processes to come down the pike since a man named Moses held sway. So, when push comes to shove, we can all huff and we can all puff, but the Governor, Mayor, Borough President and Developer have put togther a project that can transcend public opinion because, in their construct, the opponents don't matter.
Brownstoner, Learning to Oppose the Atlantic Yards Project
Brownstoner notes that Bertha Lewis seems to be playing the race card while Roger Green's main objection to the opposition is aimed at opera-loving Brooklynites:
It's a long, personalized article with lots of color, but his Bertha Lewis encounter was arguably the most histrionic, providing the article's money-shot of a race-baiting quote (equalled only by the class-baiting of Assemblyman Roger Green).
Posted by lumi at August 8, 2006 12:13 PM