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September 29, 2006
Atlantic Yards Countdown
From The Brooklyn Papers series featuring your testimony to the Empire State Development Corporation on the Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement:
What a strange time to live in. A humongous, for-profit development comprised of mostly condos for the rich can be framed as housing for the poor, jobs and hoops. It sounds like Bush administration-style doublespeak.
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We are raising our children in what is sure to become known as Asthma Alley, as vehicular traffic sits gridlocked in 68 of the surrounding 93 intersections. There has been no mention of schools, parking, adding additional trains, or sewage and electrical infrastructure improvements for what will be the densest census tract in America.
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The idea that a private developer can come in and dump practically an entire city into our town, make his billion dollars, and leave us to live in the mess seems more like Communist China than the United States.— G. Mayron-King and S. King, Boerum Hill
Read the entire published testimony here
Posted by lumi at September 29, 2006 9:07 AM