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July 28, 2009

It came from the Blogosphere...

Rocky Sullivan's Pub Quiz via Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, Greetings From Scott Turner: Apex of Weirdness

This Wednesday -- tomorrow -- is much bigger, more important community hearing. You're all invited. It's during the afternoon and also in the evening. If ever there was a meeting folks should turn out for -- to make your views known, to protest, to really have at Forest City Ratner, government officials or, if you like the project, opponents -- this is the one. It's a crucial time -- over the next few months, any number of things can permanently sink Atlantic Yards.

Atlantic Yards needs to be sunk. Because it would provide few, if any, affordable apartments, newly-created jobs and union jobs, because it would cost taxpayers (i.e. you and me) billions of dollars, because it's been such a scam and corrupt process it makes Boss Tweed look like Walter Cronkite, and because it's the Ugly Bat Boy of real-estate developments. That's why Atlantic Yards has to be stopped, now, and replaced with a plan that makes good on the promises Ratner can't and obviously won't.

Be sure to click thru for the photo of Ugly Bat Boy (you won't regret it).

Field of Schemes, Latest Nets arena forum: The recaps

Playing catchup a bit here, but if you're interested in how last Wednesday night's public meeting on the New Jersey Nets' proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project went, there's a long recap on the New York Times' Fort Greene blog, and an even longer recap at Atlantic Yards report (includes verbatim heckling transcripts!).

Nets Daily, Final Hearings This Week on Atlantic Yards

Following a rowdy informational hearing last week, supporters and critics can be expected to vie again Wednesday and Thursday as the state’s Empire State Development Corp. holds new hearings on Bruce Ratner’s revised plans for Atlantic Yards and the Barclays Center. Critics are particularly incensed that the developer has yet to provide new architect’s renderings for the project and have come up with their own.

Brownstoner, Weekday Events

Atlantic Yards Protest
There will be no more public hearings on Atlantic Yards; therefore, this should be considered the community’s chance to tell ESDC and Ratner their opinions of the Atlantic Yards project. All are welcome to protest and voice themselves.
Wednesday, July 29. 1 p.m. 285 Jay Street, outside Klitgord Auditorium of NYC Technical College.

Team Tish, Atlantic Yards Protest; NYC Tech; 7/29; 1PM

Posted by eric at July 28, 2009 9:52 AM