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July 23, 2009
What do Teaneck, Cleveland and Edgemont Have To Do With the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project?
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
DDDB ruminates on last night's Atlantic Yards "Informational Meeting."
The most enlightening piece of information: Ratner and ESDC will not reveal the project models or renderings or cost-benefit analysis until after the project is given its second approval in early September. So, all the uproar at the meeting and hearings that will come next week is about an invisible project.
When union members shout "build it now" at such meetings, we'd like to know: Build what?
And what about Forest City Ratner EVP MaryAnne Gilmartin's claim that a handful of rabid obstructionists are spoiling the party for everyone, or, as she put it, "a relentless campaign of a few to delay the benefits to many?"
"Relentless campaign of a few...?" Really?
Ms. Gilmartin, the few were the ones sitting on the panel last night. The "relentless campaign of a few" is made up of thousands and thousands of donors and supporters of DDDB, scores of community organizations, and the opposition and critics include all of the elected officials representing districts around the project site.
It has been a relentless campaign by Forest City Ratner and its paid or indebted partners, in other words "the few," to attempt to steamroll and bulldoze a community with false promises and selfish motives.
Posted by eric at July 23, 2009 5:06 PM