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December 15, 2006
State to holdouts: What’s yours is ours
The Brooklyn Papers
By Ariella Cohen
More than 30 property owners within the footprint of the developer’s Atlantic Yards project were told this week that state officials had commenced eminent domain proceedings — beginning the condemnation of private property for the $4-billion residential, office and arena project before it even wins final approval.
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One could-be-evictee said the notice hadn’t yet reached him, but the news had.“I saw my property [on the list],” said Henry Weinstein, who owns a building on Pacific Street and on one Carlton Avenue.
Weinstein, who is planning his own lawsuit, copped a line from actor and gun owner Charlton Heston: “If Mr. Ratner wants my deeds, he will have to pry them from my cold dead fingers,” he said.
Posted by lumi at December 15, 2006 7:34 AM