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April 8, 2008
Residents: Atlantic Yards project is going haywire
Calls mount for a moratorium on more ‘unnecessary’ demolition
MetroNY
By Amy Zimmer
Dean Street residents, whose apartments are in the shadow of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, want Gov. David Paterson to demand a new construction schedule before any more buildings are demolished in the 22-acre footprint.
The project’s anticipated 2016 completion date, announced when it won state approval in December of 2006, has been pushed back, but FCR has yet to release a revised schedule for its basketball arena and 16 high-rises.
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“There is ongoing demolition activity at the project site which may now be wholly unnecessary and which is having and will continue to have a long-term significant impact on the surrounding community,” the Dean Street Block Association’s Peter Krashes wrote to Paterson last week, calling for a temporary moratorium on demolitions.Krashes wants the enshrouded Ward Bakery building and others to be adapted and re-used rather than torn down for “unnecessary construction staging areas” and surface parking lots. He is afraid to see more “holding” properties such as the bleak building housing Modell’s — that are basically space savers for bigger buildings.
Posted by lumi at April 8, 2008 5:12 AM