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July 23, 2009
THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN
Rumur.com
Filmmakers Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky have been watching the unfolding saga of Atlantic Yards through a lens for the past five-and-a-half years, and they've just released a trailer for their upcoming documentary about the fight to stop the project: The Battle of Brooklyn.
Coming this Fall
The Battle of Brooklyn follows a group of people who come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project, a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy their homes and neighborhood. If built, the project, situated at the juncture of predominately low rise-brownstone neighborhoods in Prospect Heights, would place 16 skyscrapers and a sports arena on a 22 acre parcel of land. Their fight to stop the project pits them against developer Forest City Ratner, as well as other residents who are eager for the construction jobs and the additional housing that the project would create. Others are excited about bringing the New Jersey Nets basketball team to Brooklyn.
Daniel Goldstein's apartment sits at what would be center court of the new arena. A reluctant activist, Daniel got dragged into the fight because he simply couldn't believe that the government should use the power of Eminent Domain in order to take his property and hand it off to a private developer. Daniel and others formed the group, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, in order to develop alternative plans to the proposed project.
Read about how the film came about.
Posted by eric at July 23, 2009 2:43 PM