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October 7, 2008
Save the date: DDDB walkathon as Yards looks shaky
The Brooklyn Paper
by Evan Gardner
The annual walkathon to raise money to fight Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development is going undercover — under cover of darkness, that is.
For the first time, the four-year-old tradition of marching in and around the footprint of the faltering $4-billion, 16-skyscraper, arena, residential and office space complex will be held at night — with participants carrying candles.
“We’re doing it to shed light on [the developer’s and the state’s] abuses, and we’re hoping that politicians will also see the light,” Daniel Goldstein of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, one the march’s organizers, said about the twilight gimmick.
DDDB has been fighting the 22-acre mega-project since it was unveiled in 2003 — the heady days of the Brooklyn real-estate boom — and now the group’s battle is reaching a critical phase just as the project appears to be collapsing under its own weight.
Posted by eric at October 7, 2008 11:33 AM