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December 9, 2006
Eminent domain OK for Nets
NY Daily News
The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn got a key approval yesterday from the Empire State Development Corp., authorizing the use of eminent domain to build an arena for the Nets, a hotel and 16 residential and office towers.Now the ball bounces to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's court.
The three-member Public Authorities Control Board gets the project next. In recent years, Silver (D-Manhattan) has used his influence on the panel to kill the proposed West Side Stadium and delay the Moynihan Penn Station proposal.
A Silver spokesman said yesterday it is too soon to know the speaker's position, though a growing chorus of critics is calling for him to delay a vote until after Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer takes office Jan. 1.
Posted by amy at December 9, 2006 11:13 AM