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December 7, 2007
Yards not safe
The Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn Heights resident and Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse producer Steve DeSeve weighs in on the Atlantic Yards security issue:
To the editor,
Gore Vidal once called the U.S.A. the “United States of Amnesia,” and the way the governor’s office, the Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner are treating the terror threat at the proposed Atlantic Yards, it seem like they have forgotten that a lot of Brooklynites lived through 9-11 (“Pols want Atlantic Yards security review,” Nov. 10).
Is Forest City Ratner depending on our forgetting that the World Trade Center had its own world-class security firm certifying its safety? The NYPD also says it is satisfied with the “secret plan” to prevent terrorism at Atlantic Yards. We are also, apparently, supposed to forget that the same NYPD regarded the twin towers as safe.
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Posted by lumi at December 7, 2007 1:45 PM