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November 23, 2006
Yards End Game Gets FEIS-ty
The Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Norman Oder
Norman Oder's articles for the BD Star are summaries of many of the events and items reported on his blog — call it Atlantic Yards Report Digest.
In this week's digest, Oder covers: * the rubberstamping of the Environmental Impact Statement, * the political mudslinging between Sheldon Silver, Charles Gargano and a Pataki lackey, * changes between the Draft and Final EIS, * the smoking-gun memo proving that NYC Dept of Planning ordered the project's "scaledown" from a menu of options provided by the developer Forest City Ratner (FCR), * another document revealing that FCR tried to downplay architect Frank Gehry's role in developing the goals of the project (they are usually developed by a government agency and then assigned to a developer, not the other way around), * truly bizarre mitigations proposed in the FEIS, * what about Coney Island, and * Ratner's secret model illustrating a significant scaledown for the project.
NoLandGrab: If you think the digest is long, you are probably not an Atlantic Yards Report junkie.
Posted by lumi at November 23, 2006 8:01 AM