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May 29, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Yonkers Tribune, Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards to Blame, in Part For Looming Con Edison Record Rate Hike
A cat fight breaks out in the comments section of a posting of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's press release about Atlantic Yards and rising electricity rates.
The subjects on some peoples' minds in Yonkers: their OWN political vortex around Bruce Ratner's controversial Ridge Hill plan, Payments in Lieu of Taxes (only don't call it a "PILOT"), and the City's deal to help cover a looming budget shortfall by selling Ratner the leases for Ridge Hill way below their estimated value.
West Bronx Blog, Sound Familiar?
Brooklyn is not alone:
Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, is being accused of pushing out several long-serving community board members because of their oppostion to the borough's Atlantic Yards development - a project Markowitz, says the New York Times, "has spent three years and much of his political capital extolling."
Last summer, you may recall, Adolfo Carrión, Markowitz's Bronx counterpart, was accused of the very same thing, namely removing Bronx Community Board 4 members who opposed the new Yankee Stadium.
Posted by lumi at May 29, 2007 6:22 AM