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November 23, 2006
He stopped Ratner … for a bit
Testimony had been forgotten
The Brooklyn Papers
By Ariella Cohen
He didn’t do it with a lawsuit. He didn’t do it with a rally. He didn’t do it by lobbying. In fact, he didn’t do anything at all — but Prospect Heights resident Raul Rothblatt managed to grind Bruce Ratner’s $4.2-billion Atlantic Yards mega-project to a halt this week because the state forgot to include his testimony in its final review of the development.
The project’s final environmental impact statement, which had been accepted by the Empire State Development Corporation last week, was recalled on Monday because Rothblatt’s — and others’ — public comments failed to be included in appendix of the 4,500-page document, as required by law.
Two binders of Rothblatt’s testimony — Binder 1 and Binder 3 — made it into the appendix, but not Binder 2, he said.
Posted by lumi at November 23, 2006 7:44 AM