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September 18, 2006
At the Atlantic Antic: Nets promos, luxury housing, and some tough principles on AY
Atlantic Yards Report
This Sunday, the Atlantic Antic became the backdrop for the fight over Atlantic Yards and Norman Oder was there to take it all in:
With Forest City Ratner as a sponsor, there was heavy promotion for the developer's malls and Atlantic Yards project. The company sponsored three tables. Though each table promoted the Nets and the AY project, the first focused on the Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center malls; I got a mug, a pencil, a keychain, and a mini-radio, all co-branded, in one fell swoop.
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Was it a coincidence that the drumline gathered near the table of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), the coalition opposing the Atlantic Yards plan? Well, the drummers were shepherded down Atlantic Avenue by two p.r. people who work for the developer.
NoLandGrab: It probably wasn't a coincidence, but it was a nice touch. Bruce Ratner has repeatedly demonstrated that he will use any means necessary to drown out concerns of actual residents in the existing neighborhoods.
Also in Oder's article, the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods had a table featuring a Google Earth "flyover" of the project and an opportunity for concerned residents to videotape testimony to submit to the Empire State Development Corporation; and the "Boerum Hill Association distributed some detailed principles that would lead to significant modification--and possibly a scrapping--of the AY plan."
Posted by lumi at September 18, 2006 9:27 AM