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May 14, 2009
Weinstein Legal Victory Shows Ratner and Boymelgreen Acted in Bad Faith
From Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (dddb.net):
Henry Weinstein, who owns 2 large properties in the footprint of the proposed Atlantic Yards project and is a plaintiff on the lawsuit organized by DDDB challenging NY State's right to seize properties by eminent domain for Forest City Ratner's project, also had filed two lawsuits against Forest City and developer Shaya Boymelgreen.
Weinstein had won those two suits and last week he won the appeals brought by Forest City and Boymelgreen. Boymelgreen's Newswalk property, was suspiciously cut out of the Atlantic Yards land grabbing footprint.
Crain's NY Business reported:
According to Mr. Brody, his client had no knowledge that Mr. Boymelgreen had assigned the lease to 752 Pacific Ave. and 535 Carlton Ave. to Forest City until Mr. Weinstein stumbled upon public records about three years ago. In 1999, Mr. Boymelgreen signed a 49-year lease with Mr. Weinstein on the property. In the meantime, Forest City has been falsely claiming in its dealings with the state to build Atlantic Yards that these two properties were under the company’s control, added Mr. Brody.
No surprises here:
False claims by Forest City Ratner accepted without question by the state of New York (ESDC)? That's just par for the course.
Posted by lumi at May 14, 2009 5:13 AM