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January 9, 2008
It came from the Blogosphere...
Bergen Carroll, Brooklyn writers donate anthology proceeds to fight Ratner’s Atlantic Yards
On "Brooklyn Was Mine":
...the contributors to the anthology Brooklyn Was Mine (Brooklyn-based writers Jennifer Egan, Lara Vapnyar, Jonathan Lethem, Darcey Steinke, and Darin Strauss) plus fifteen others decided to donate all the book’s proceeds to the non-profit organization, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
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This is a great gesture towards Brooklyn and one which I personally support. Opposition to Forest City Ratner’s proposed $4 billion Atlantic Yards development remains as strong as ever and even seems to be growing in recent months.
The KnickerBlogger, The Shape Of Things To Come?
Even if Ratner's crap project doesn't go through, future generations will look back at this age as one of greed; earlier generations invested in the future: planting trees and creating parks that future generations would enjoy.
Anyway, here's a better design for Vanderbilt Yards. Feasible and liveable, two things Ratner's plan which is just a public subsidized land grab, is not.
The UNITY Plan: The Community's Plan for the Vanderbilt Yards
Pinky's Paperhaus, 66 degrees. thank you, global warming.
I don’t live in NY but I do know that the Atlantic Yards development is nightmare of horrifying proportions. The authors who’ve contributed to Brooklyn Was Mine are fighting the good fight; the book’s proceeds benefit a nonprofit trying to preserve the community.
One comment posted doesn't quite see things Pinky's way:
The idea of bringing first-class shopping and major league sports teams and top performing arts to downtown Brooklyn has some appeal, and the ones who are most against it tend to be the wealthier residents, the ones who spend a lot of time in Manhattan and don’t see a need for Brooklyn to have its own urban center. Many other Brooklynites welcome the change.
Daily Gotham, Top 80 for 2008 from the Brooklyn Papers
So the Brooklyn papers has a list of it's top 80 interesting things for 2008 ranked from 80 to 1 like a countdown.
Lots of development issues feature in the list, some good, mostly, from a community viewpoint, not so good. Atlantic Yards comes in twice at 47 and 10.
Posted by lumi at January 9, 2008 7:44 PM