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November 22, 2006
Fans For Fair Play: Quickies
Fans For Fair Play posted thoughts on several recent developments in the Atlantic Yards fight, including how a true Brooklyn sports fan feels about Jay-Z's Yankees cap (Ratner guys always seem to be wearing the wrong cap):
FFFP attended a Fort Greene Association event last night. Hakeen Jeffries', the area's new State Assemblymember-elect was on the bill. Also, Joe Chan, who heads up the newly-coagulated Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
Jeffries was encouraging, but still hard to read. He announced he would advise Sheldon Silver to postpone the upcoming and crucial vote of the Public Authorities Control Board...the one that would authorize hundreds of millions in state funds for Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. That's good news. Other Brooklyn assemblymembers who have Silver's ear -- Jim Brennan and Joan Millman -- are also urging a delay.
Jeffries has other concerns about the project -- size, lack of democratic process, and eminent domain abuse -- but at the same time, still supports the basic concept of a Ratner's mega-block. In the end, we hope Hakeem prevails on the concerns he has.
Joe Chan was far less encouraging. Formerly with the Bloomberg administration, Chan's just another political operative parlaying his government connections into private-sector enrichment.
Posted by lumi at November 22, 2006 8:06 AM