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June 1, 2007
Yards mess continues
The Brooklyn Paper
Editorial
It seems like every week there’s a new example of how we’re all paying the price for Atlantic Yards while developer Bruce Ratner laughs his way to the bank.
State officials in Albany — Ratner’s partners in this taxpayer-underwritten boondoggle — have consistently told residents that the $4-billion mega-project won’t have much of a negative impact on Brooklyn.
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Weeks after Atlantic Yards was approved, for example, the city Department of Transportation, realizing that the state’s rosy traffic scenarios were a mirage, proposed a bold plan to convert two avenues in Park Slope into one-way throughfares.We can still hear the screaming.
Now Con Edison, the energy giant, comes forward to say it needs a 17-percent rate hike — in part because of the massive energy demands of Atlantic Yards.
Posted by lumi at June 1, 2007 1:41 PM