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August 27, 2008
"We talk about people and we talk about children": Carl Kruger's "Brooklyn" aria
Atlantic Yards Report
In Norman Oder's look back at the testimony from the August 2006 public hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, it seems that no one managed to string together every buzzword of the day to spend so much time saying nothing specific as State Senator Carl Kruger. If the hearing were held two years later, the only words that Kruger would have surely added are "green" and "sustainable."
Here are the high notes (full text at Atlantic Yards Report):
My name is Carl Kruger. I'm the State Senator representing the Southern Tier of Brooklyn and I think that tonight "Brooklyn" is the operative word.... We're talking about Brooklyn, we're talking about communities, we're talking about Brooklyn first.
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How better tonight can we talk about Brooklyn than to talk about development. When we talk about development, we talk about neighborhoods; We talk about sustaining the old while we build on the new; We talk about creating communities where communities existed; We talk about change; and We talk about growth; We talk about a borough and we talk about a city; We talk about people and we talk about children; We talk about what it means to each and every one of us and what we hold near and dear. So today, as this Commission deliberates the very process for which this hearing is taking place, it must look at the Atlantic Yards project in the vacuum of what it really is....
NoLandGrab: "Vacuum" indeed.
Posted by lumi at August 27, 2008 6:14 AM