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December 18, 2006
Reasons to love NY now
Because Daniel Goldstein Can’t Be Bought, Not Even With Bruce Ratner’s Millions
Now the battle may be entering its final stages. Along with ten other plaintiffs, including Freddy’s Bar, the community icon where the White Stripes’ “There’s No Home for You Here” is a popular choice on the jukebox, Goldstein and Merchant have filed suit against Forest City Ratner (which, as fate would have it, redeveloped the Queens Macy site, walling the space once occupied by Mary Sendek’s house). “Our last, best shot,” says Goldstein, who’s banking on recent Supreme Court rulings pertaining to eminent domain, the basis by which Ratner claims the right to replace 636 Pacific Street with an arena for the Nets to play in.
“We’re not cranks, unless letting powerful people do whatever they want, without any public review or regard to law, makes you a crank. That sounds more like a citizen to me—a New Yorker,” Goldstein says. “If it was another kind of project, we’d have been out of here a long time ago. All this makes me tired, saying the same thing over and over again. But how can you give in when you know you’re right?”
Posted by lumi at December 18, 2006 10:03 AM