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November 24, 2008
Brooklyn at Eye Level: Contracts, business, and gardening
Here are excerpts from more interviews conducted by The Civilians, as background for the new play about Atlantic Yards:
“It’s a binding enough contract [The Community Benefits Agreement] that when you see things happen in the community that are not going in that direction, that you can go back to that piece of paper say look this is what you promised us, to the developer, this is what we agreed upon doing and it was signed by the mayor." — Brooklynite
NoLandGrab: For the record, Mayor Bloomberg showed up at the signing ceremony and signed SOMETHING, but it wasn't the actual Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), which is signed by community groups that support the project and the developer. The Mayor's role made for great theater though.
"...with this construction right here? We hardly get any people coming in at all. Cause the construction just make people wanna walk fast fast through here to get past all the dust and the debris. So nobody stop." — Black Businessperson
"I had gotten all these bulbs, and I was out with this little heart-shaped spade, um, planting them, and….I….I was up close to 127, and one of the drug dealers, this other neighbor and I decided that one of the ways that we could fight this, this problem was just to make the drug dealers feel uncomfortable." — Gardener and a Guardian remembering the way it was not so long ago.
Posted by lumi at November 24, 2008 4:52 AM