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December 19, 2006
State pleads Yards’ case
Last-minute blitz to save Ratner plan from Shelly’s ‘Silver’ bullet
The Brooklyn Papers
By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn Papers is reporting tonight that the vote is on for tomorrow:
Bruce Ratner’s boosters in Albany spent most of Tuesday trying to convince Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D–Manhattan) of the benefits of his Atlantic Yards project.
Just hours after New York 1 reported that Silver — who has already killed two big development projects with his vote on the Public Authorities Control Board — would block Ratner’s Prospect Heights Xanadu before its expected approval Wednesday, Empire State Development Corporation project planners arrived in his office.
“We are in the process of being briefed on the project,” Silver spokeswoman Eileen Larrabee said.
As a result, it now appears that the PACB vote will indeed happen Wednesday.
Posted by lumi at December 19, 2006 10:01 PM