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December 14, 2007
Garden security has Brooklyn pols asking Yards questions
The Brooklyn Paper
By Mike McLaughlin
Brooklyn Paper follows up on the issue of security concerns at Atlantic Yards:
State officials tried to defuse tension about security at Atlantic Yards, saying that the NYPD won’t need to close streets around the Nets arena because police don’t close roadways next to Madison Square Garden on game nights.
The only problem with the promise is that it’s not entirely true: the NYPD did shut a roadway used as a taxi stand and pedestrian walkway between the Garden and Penn Plaza after 9-11 for security reasons.
While it’s not exactly Eighth Avenue, that closure did raise some eyebrows.
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Not only that, Brooklyn elected officials said that the comparison made by ESDC President Avi Schick between Madison Square Garden and the proposed Atlantic Yards arena is like comparing basketballs and hockey pucks because MSG is not glass-walled, does not sit in a residential neighborhood and is more than 20 feet from busy avenues as the Atlantic Yards arena will be.
NoLandGrab: Local elected officals appear to be very serious about lingering security issues; meanwhile, the Empire State Development Corporation doesn't.
Posted by lumi at December 14, 2007 5:18 AM