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August 25, 2006
NYG gets back with AY coverage
When the Public Authorities Control Board put the kibbosh on the Jets Westside Stadium plan, New York Games's coverage split into several different streams. Lately, NYG has been following the US Olympic Committee's search for the US candidate for 2016 host city, and the latest mess of development controversies on the Westside.
This week, NYG gets caught up on the controversy over Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards proposal:
NYG posted links and excerpts from three recent Atlantic Yards stories, and offered this analysis:
Why on earth would the state and city support a project generating the most density in the country (by a factor of 2)? To preserve billion dollar profits for the developer, naturally.
Link and commentary on:
* Chris Smith's article for NY Magazine,
* the Coney Island site that is suddenly "no longer available" according to the Draft Environmental Impact Statment, and
* Observer Reporter Matthew Schuerman's piece about how AY would be the densest residential census tract in the nation.
NYG also posted a recent NY Times article examining the "blight" claim. NYG concludes:
If [this, at right] is "blight," then 95% of New York is fair game. A dangerous precedent.
Posted by lumi at August 25, 2006 10:42 AM