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April 3, 2008
Tony Avella is Mad as Hell (And Running for Mayor)
Runnin' Scared [The Village Voice]
By Julie Bolcer
Regarding one major example among the last platform, [mayoral candidate Tony] Avella explained his opposition to the $ 4 billion Atlantic Yards project for Brooklyn within a voicemail he left in response to a call for comment on Monday.
“I am totally against the Ratner Project,” Avella said. “I think it is a perfect example of the overdevelopment that is going on in this city, of putting ten thousand potatoes in a five-pound bag. The traffic, the overburdening of the subway system and the transit system in that area would just be enormous. Plus the fact of the misuse of eminent domain – that is something that absolutely has to stop in this city, of taking somebody’s private property and giving it to a private individual, in this case Ratner, so that they can make money from it. That is the most undemocratic situation and process that I’ve ever heard of,” he concluded before he hung up.
Posted by lumi at April 3, 2008 4:43 AM