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March 11, 2007
This Week in NoLandGrab History
This week in 2004 saw a meeting in Park Slope that lit a fire under two soon-to-be Atlantic Yards bloggers.
Arena Controversy Comes to Slope As Crowd Jeers Atlantic Yards Plan
Forest City, Gehry Reps Appear At Public Forum for First Time
Brooklyn Daily Eagle By John Doyle
The forum, she said, proves there is a strong and growing opposition to Ratner’s development plan. “It showed people are going to fight against this bypass of the democratic process and win.”
If memory serves, this is also the forum where an audience member asked how all the trees in the renderings would live with all of the pollution the traffic would cause if Atlantic Yards was built. Ratner folk responded that they were working on a new kind of tree that is resistant to pollution, which brought on the quick audience response, "What about the people?"
Posted by amy at March 11, 2007 12:44 PM