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May 20, 2008
Activist's tenure meets ironic end
NY Daily News
A former member of the anti-Atlantic Yards group Develop, Don't Destroy, Brooklyn claims she was booted from the influential group during a secret meeting last year.
Patti Hagan, a public face for the fight against overdevelopment in Prospect Heights, compared the decision to eject her to meetings held by elected officials in support of the controversial $4.2 billion project.
"It's all been done in secret," said Hagan of the decision, made last summer, but only recently made public. "It's very odd because Develop, Don't Destroy, Brooklyn, that's the whole point, or one of the reasons it was created - because this whole project had been decided in back rooms."
DDDB member Daniel Goldstein declined to say why Hagan was booted, but defended the decision.
"DDDB restructured itself and dissolved its steering committee," said Goldstein, in a statement. "We are now governed by a new Board of Directors - five individuals we are very proud to have on our board."
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Posted by eric at May 20, 2008 1:11 PM