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December 14, 2006
Guest Op-Ed: Atlantic Yards Is a Net Gain For Everyone In Brooklyn
Courier-Life Publications
The Atlantic Yards project is sounding better every day.
According to this Op-Ed piece by NY State Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz (45th AD), Atlantic Yards will now provide:
- "eight acres of brand new public space" (that's better than privately owned publicly accessible open space as stipulated in the project documents),
- "a state of the art health care facility providing high-tech health services currently unavailable locally" (Methodist is such a dump?),
- "15,000 union construction jobs" (we thought that was 1,500 jobs over 10 years, but we could be wrong),
- "between 1,500 and 6,400 new office, arena and retail jobs" (give or take 5,000), and
- "the developers have agreed to provide new school" (that means Ratner's paying, right?).
There's more, but you have to read it to believe it because if it's in the Courier-Life publications, it must be true.
Posted by lumi at December 14, 2006 7:24 PM