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May 26, 2009
Former Lehman Brothers banker to head New York City’s Housing Authority
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In an article about the new appointee to the NYC Housing Authority, one resident in the Walt Whitman Houses points to Bruce Ratner's eminent domain-abusing Atlantic Yards megaproject as an indication of Mayor Bloomberg's affordable housing priorities.
Robert noted that multimillionaire developer Bruce Ratner’s project to develop a sports arena complex in the neighborhood would evict people from their homes.
“They’re building a big stadium to move the [professional basketball team] Nets to, with new condos all over downtown Brooklyn—look around. They want us gone. If you could look at all the contracts and the plans, you’d see that the developers have blueprints of all the housing in the area, including the developments, and they have this property divided up among themselves. The public doesn’t know what’s going on.
Posted by lumi at May 26, 2009 5:40 AM