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November 5, 2008

New York City’s CFO On Bears and Bloomberg

NY Observer

From reporter Eliot Brown's interview with NYC Comptoller William Thompson and likely mayoral candidate:

The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn faces some clear challenges, and the developer has asked for more than $100 million in additional assistance from the city. Do you think the project should get more government assistance if it can’t go forward otherwise?

No. I think that that project has received a lot of government assistance to this point. It’s a project I supported in its original form. It continues to morph and change, and that may be one of the projects that you have to reevaluate on a staged basis before you move forward. It is still a project that I support, but it continues to change.

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Posted by eric at November 5, 2008 8:46 AM