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October 19, 2006
Spitzer backs Atlantic Yards, calls 8% cutback "appropriate"
Atlantic Yards Report
Gubernatorial frontrunner Eliot Spitzer yesterday said that he considers the promised 8% reduction in the Atlantic Yards project a "reasonable compromise," thus suggesting he has no idea that the cutback would bring the project back to the square footage originally proposed.
Then again, if he relies on the New York Times, he doesn't know better. The newspaper last month published a front-page scoop--the lead story of the day--about the planned cutback without pointing out that the move would essentially return Atlantic Yards to square one. (That square footage would be over one additional acre.) Follow-up clarifications were buried.
Spitzer made his comments during an interview on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show.
Posted by lumi at October 19, 2006 7:37 AM