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September 20, 2006
Brooklyn Is Burning
Do Development and Brooklyn Fires Go Hand in Hand?
NY Magazine
By Mark Jacobson
The Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning and the state-sponsored Atlantic Yards project are fueling local real estate speculation. Could greedy speculators be fanning the flames as "Brooklyn is Burning?"
As the displaced survivors struggle to go on with their lives, some help comes via Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner:
Another, less-expected item was that the family of Kassoum Fofana, who’d fallen on top of Sherrie Williams the night of the 1033 fire, had a new apartment. This was good news, since the Fofanas had been more or less homeless since the fire. Weirdly, the Fofanas’ benefactor was the Forest City Ratner Companies, would-be builder of the hated Atlantic Yards project, which may do more than any fire to change the landscape of Brooklyn.
“Ratner got the Fofanas a place to live,” [Bill] Batson said, shaking his head at the irony.
Posted by lumi at September 20, 2006 8:29 AM