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February 19, 2009
Tell Your Story at President Obama's Recovery.gov
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Want to let the Obama administration know that bailing out Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards is not the purpose of the stimulus bill and would undermine the bill itself?
You can do so at recovery.gov.
Go here to tell your story.
Here is one story posted to recovery.gov that a DDDB supporter sent to us by email:
For five long, hard years, my neighbors in Brooklyn have been fighting against an ill-considered project called Atlantic Yards. Its centerpiece is an arena that virtually nobody supports except politicians and developer-initiated groups that receive support from the developer.
Sports facilities virtually NEVER make money for their municipalities. It's been well-documented, over and over, that the chief (in most cases, sole) beneficiaries are the franchise owners and developers (in the case of Atlantic Yards, they are one and the same; and that entity, Forest City Ratner, is the largest political contributor in New York State).
Please don't make a mockery of our desperate fight to save our beloved neighborhood by awarding construction funds to this, or any other, sports facility.
It's hard to lose your cynicism in this economic free-for-all, where banks are given money without condition but small businesses and middle-class homeowners are left to flounder and fail.
Posted by steve at February 19, 2009 6:24 AM