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March 29, 2007
Library looking to branch into site ownership
NY Daily News
By Rachel Monahan
An article about the threat of the use of eminent domain (note: eminent domain is only used as a "last resort"), concerning a library in Gravesend, references Atlantic Yards as the project that turned the term "eminent domain" into a dirty word.
[Community Board 13] District Manager Chuck Reichenthal attributed the land use committee's vote to objections to the city's potentially big-footing property owners.
"I think the issue was those two words: eminent domain," Reichenthal said.
The term has "taken on a difficult image since the whole downtown project," he said, referring to Forest City Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards project, which will likely require the use of eminent domain to make way for the 22-acre development.
NoLandGrab: We don't really expect a Brooklyn Community Board District Manager to know the difference between Downtown Brooklyn and Prospect Heights. Bruce Ratner's eminent domain-abusing Atlantic Yards plan is in Prospect Heights, for real.
Posted by lumi at March 29, 2007 7:51 AM