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July 1, 2009
Is Ratner’s goose cooked?
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Miraculously, New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has accepted an appeal of the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case! This case had been dismissed by a lower court in May of this year. The earliest the appeal would be heard by the court is mid October, and their decision would follow 6 or 8 weeks later, sometime around Thanksgiving. What this means for the developer, Forest City Ratner (FCR), is their goose (aka Atlantic Yards) is that much closer to the oven, and just in time for the holidays!
...So, after the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) brazenly forked over more of our money to FCR just last week to keep the zombie proposal stumbling forward, the Court of Appeals may end up being the stake through the heart that kills this zombie once and for all.
NoLandGrab: Stake through the heart? That's no way to kill a zombie. Only way to kill a zombie is to destroy the brain.
Posted by eric at July 1, 2009 9:14 AM