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October 2, 2007

Atlantic Yards evicting Tiny Town day care

NY Daily News
By Jotham Sederstrom

A city teacher who was weeks away from opening a day-care center near in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards project is being booted by developer Forest City Ratner.

The 15-year-old Crown Heights program, Tiny Town, was expected to reopen by October following $150,000 in renovations to a building on Dean St., said owner Shirley Milligan.

"That arena is going up, and I don't care what anybody does, but to take away my existence? That's despicable," said Milligan, 50, who began renovations after leasing the building at 487 Dean St. in 2004.

The full story involves a dispute over back rent. Bruce Ratner's spokesperson is focusing on that issue, but at the end of the day, Ratner plans to remove Milligan so he can demolish the building to make way for a parking lot, anyway.

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Posted by lumi at October 2, 2007 7:27 AM