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July 30, 2009
Atlantic antics! A week of Yards hearings did little to change things
The Brooklyn Paper
By Ben Muessig, Mike McLaughlin and Jared Foretek
More than 50 project opponents as well as a who’s who of politicians and City Council candidates rallied outside the hearing, demanding the project be halted in the wake of changes approved last month that would allow Forest City to build the project at a slower pace, pay the Metropolitan Transportation Authority less money up front to build for development rights to a smaller portion of the railyards at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, and to make less-costly railyard renovations than initially promised.
“The end is near. It’s time to put the proposed Atlantic Yards development out of its misery,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Fort Greene).
Meanwhile, about a dozen supporters of the project — who were later joined at the hearing by a larger bloc of Atlantic Yards backers — held up signs and chanted: “You can’t stop the progress.”
Posted by lumi at July 30, 2009 6:37 AM