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February 12, 2009
The Brooklyn Paper mailbag
The Brooklyn Paper, Letters
What a terrible position for The Brooklyn Paper to take — extolling the worst of behaviors and calling it leadership for our times.
...It’s not about our money getting stolen for Peoria’s assumed misuse, it’s that Atlantic Yards is a project born of a corrupt process designed to benefit a pre-selected developer: it’s that city code doesn’t allow arenas in residential neighborhoods for reason; it’s that building the arena alone never made economic sense; and it’s that the jobs associated with arenas are few and mostly marginal.
Alan Rosner, Prospect Heights
Is your publisher nuts? In this tough economy, he suggests that we subsidize a billionaire so that he can build the most expensive arena in modern history so that folks from Manhattan and Long Island, and maybe a few Brooklynites, can watch a few games a year while still costing New York taxpayers millions of dollars each year.
Why not use the stimulus money to build affordable housing?
Robert Ohlerking, Park Slope
Posted by eric at February 12, 2009 12:33 PM