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October 10, 2007
Yesterday...
...these articles and blog entries were published online after we'd left our desk at NoLandGrab HQ:
WNYC Newsroom, Ratner's Atlantic Yards Back in Courts
Brownstoner, AY Opponents Head to Court, Again
Gowanus Lounge, Atlantic Yards Gets Another Day in Court
Joshing Politics, "Atlantic Yards" Back In Court
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Atlantic Yards Project Challenged in Federal and State Courts
Today, the plaintiffs will ask the federal 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to overturn Garaufis’ ruling and let the case go to trial. They are six residential homeowners, one commercial tenant (Freddy’s), and six residential tenants. Two of the residential tenants reportedly plan to settle with Ratner.
Reporter Elizabeth Stull is also following another Atlantic Yards lawsuit:
Another lawsuit challenging the use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards Project was heard Friday in the state appellate court on Monroe Place, in Brooklyn Heights.
In that case, Anderson v. Urban Development Corporation, 13 rent-regulated residential tenants claim the state has failed to provide them with the relocation assistance they are entitled to receive under the state Urban Development Corporation (UDC) Act.
An attorney for the plaintiffs, George Locker, said the state’s Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) failed to do any kind of study or to make any recommendation about how they would find alternative housing that is comparable and affordable, except to say that it would provide them with a real estate broker.
Posted by lumi at October 10, 2007 10:31 AM