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June 2, 2009
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Tuesday Trifecta
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE, June 1, 2009
Numerous media outlets reported on the State Senate hearing on Atlantic Yards that took place at Pratt Institute on Friday. Many of the 300 seats at the Pratt auditorium were filled with union workers who support the project because of the thousands of jobs it would create. The five-hour hearing was called by State Senator Bill Perkins and other senators to determine the status of the $4.2 billion project, which is being reevaluated by designers in a bid to cut costs. Officials from several city agencies testified, as did supporters and opponents of the plan. Conspicuously absent was the developer, Forest City Ratner, who declined an invitation to attend the hearing.
Ratner’s 80 DeKalb Project Benefits From Union Pact
Forest City Ratner’s residential development in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, will benefit from an agreement signed Friday by the city’s construction unions and their management counterparts.
For Brooklyn GOP, Rudy’s Still the Man
It was a tale of two mayors as Brooklyn Republicans endorsed former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for governor and honored current Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the party’s annual Abraham Lincoln Dinner on Thursday evening.
...Bloomberg emphasized his priorities such as education, welfare reform, stronger private investment and lower crime rates. He got applause when he declared, “Atlantic Yards is going to be built!”
NoLandGrab: Ah yes, the eminent domain-loving, public subsidy-embracing GOP!
Posted by eric at June 2, 2009 9:16 AM