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April 28, 2008

MEDIA ADVISORY: Community Groups, Elected Officials To Hold Major Rally

WHAT: Time Out on Atlantic Yards Rally
WHEN: Saturday, May 3rd at 2:00PM
WHERE: 752 Pacific Street between Carlton and Vanderbilt Avenues [Map]
WHO: BrooklynSpeaks, Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, local elected officials

Forest City Ratner Company has acknowledged that the Atlantic Yards project won't be built according to the schedule and plan that was approved. Brooklyn residents are faced with demolition of vast areas of their community with no committed plans to build. Taxpayers may be asked to bear an even greater burden than the $2 billion in public subsidies already estimated.

A major community rally will be held Saturday, May 3, 2pm at 752 Pacific Street. The Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, BrooklynSpeaks, and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn will join with community leaders and elected officials to ask Governor Paterson to call "Time Out" on the Atlantic Yards project: suspend demolitions, displacement of residents and businesses, infrastructure disruptions and further subsidies to the project so that changes to the project can be assessed and a plan prepared with community involvement. The three sponsoring coalitions represent thousands of New Yorkers who have had differing perspectives on issues raised by the Atlantic Yards proposal, but all agree that the current state of affairs is intolerable.

The following elected officials have confirmed attendance: NYS Senator Velmanette Montgomery, NYS Assemblywoman Joan Millman, NYS Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, NYC Councilwoman Letitia James, NYC Councilman Bill de Blasio, NYC Councilman David Yassky, NYC Councilman Tony Avella.

Posted by lumi at April 28, 2008 6:07 PM