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April 13, 2007
City’s Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring
StreetsBlog
As Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner is poised to knock down historic buildings to clear way for enormous surface-parking lots, StreetsBlog posts "three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence," from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's newsletter:
* Yankees Stadium parking garages (they're building those on park land),
* triple-tax-exempt bonds for parking garage construction, and,
* bringing up the rear, Bruce Ratner's Parking-Plaza-pa-looza.
Developer Forest City Ratner is about to knock down historic buildings near downtown Brooklyn to construct the borough's biggest surface parking lot. On Sunday, April 15, Brooklyn Speaks, a coalition favoring a better Atlantic Yards plan, will hold a rally against the demolition and parking lot. "Providing 1,400 surface parking spaces next to the third largest transit hub in the city is not only unnecessary, it is contradictory to the whole rationale for the project's location," the Tri-State Campaign said in the event's announcement.
Click here for details and to check out the comments, which includes a shout-out to the Duffield St. fight, in which the City is trying to knock down historic buildings with ties to the Underground Railroad for a parking garage.
Posted by lumi at April 13, 2007 7:58 AM