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November 29, 2007
TODAY: CITY HALL LAND GRAB TRIFECTA
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There are three events at City Hall today concerning various land grabs in NYC. However you feel about any or all of these projects, clearly New York City has entered a new era of eminent domain abuse. |
BROOKLYN, ATLANTIC YARDS
PRESS CONFERENCE CITY HALL STEPS, 12:00 PM
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, State Assembly Member Joan Millman, a representative of State Assembly Member Jim Brennan, City Council Members Letitia James, David Yassky and Bill de Blasio, and representatives of the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (CBN) will hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall to renew a call for an independent security study of the planned Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project, and especially its basketball arena, in light of this week’s revelation that portions of the glass-walled arena and other adjacent glass-walled buildings would lie a mere 20 feet from heavily trafficked Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. Newark police officials recently mandated the closing of streets adjacent to that city’s new Prudential Center during arena events; those streets are approximately 25 feet from that arena’s walls.
QUEENS, WILLETS POINT
CITY COUNCIL LAND USE & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE HEARING, 1:00 2:00PM
Representatives from the Willets Point Industry and Realty Association (WPIRA), a group of the 10 largest land/business owners in Willets Point will testify before the New York City Council's Land Use and Economic Development Committees on November 29, 2007 at 1 2 p.m. in the Committee Room, City Hall.
WEST HARLEM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAND GRAB
PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY ON THE CITY HALL STEPS, 1:00PM
The Coalition to Preserve Community, the West Harlem Business Group, students from Columbia and others will hold a press conference and rally on the City Hall steps from 1:00PM to 2:00PM.
They will point to the need for democracy in all land use processes, including the development of a Community Benefits Agreement. City Council must hear loud and clear that community planning, not selling out, is what must happen now that the land use process is before the Council.
NoLandGrab: With this level of eminent domain abuse, developers should be getting a volume discount or something.
Posted by lumi at November 29, 2007 6:58 AM