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October 28, 2006

Atlantic Yards Plan: Be Afraid. Very Afraid

NY Times letters to the editor in response to last week's "resident" profiles:

To the Editor:

I know the Atlantic Yards project will affect a number of neighborhoods in Brooklyn, but why wasn’t anyone from Prospect Heights featured in “On the Block”? Isn’t Prospect Heights where the project will be based?

Susan Fein
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

To the Editor:

In “On the Block” (Oct. 22), about the Atlantic Yards plan in Brooklyn, all the Fort Greene residents you interviewed were against it and all the Crown Heights residents were for it. It is easy to be in favor of a project that is more than a mile from your home, is a convenient destination for shoppers or basketball fans, and is far enough away to avoid the many negative influences on quality of life for the real neighbors of the project.
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Projects of such scale should be planned much more carefully than this one has been planned, and should not be rammed through by cynical politicos.

Frank A. Rogers
Park Slope, Brooklyn
The writer was an urban designer in the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay.

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Posted by amy at October 28, 2006 9:50 PM