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November 9, 2007
BUMMED IN BROOKLYN
Village Voice, Letter to the Editor
One letter begat another:
Re Letters [October 24–30]: Daniel Goldstein responded to your "Best of New York" issue's award of Best Noble Failure to his organization, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, by claiming that the award was premature. Some of us in Brooklyn agree that Goldstein's group is a failure, but for a completely different—and less noble—reason. I view Goldstein and his absolutist views as responsible for the failure of the opposition to Atlantic Yards. While his organization is called Develop Don't Destroy, it should have been called Don't Develop Brooklyn. It never engaged in a serious effort to negotiate the size and bulk of Atlantic Yards and permit a reasonable development of that long-neglected neighborhood to go forward. There's no way to know whether a good-faith effort to negotiate a scaled-back version of Atlantic Yards might have succeeded, but Goldstein's absolutist opposition made serious negotiation impossible. You might as well blame him for the fact that Atlantic Yards will proceed as planned, without any real community input.
Dan Ross
BROOKLYN
NoLandGrab: Maybe Dan might want to hook up with the BrooklynSpeaks coalition, which has been busy doing just what he suggests, unfortunately, without as much success as Dan anticipated.
Posted by lumi at November 9, 2007 5:03 AM