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October 20, 2009
Atlantic Yards opponents file another suit
Bergen Record
by John Brennan
Atlantic Yards opponents filed yet another lawsuit Monday against a $5 billion project proposed for downtown Brooklyn that would include a new basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
This lawsuit charges that New York State officials last month approved a revised project plan that anticipates making affordable housing construction at the site conditional on government subsidies being made available to developer Forest City Ratner.
The project plan approved at the same time, however, does not include that condition — leading to an illegal contradiction between the plan and a pending developer’s agreement, according to the suit filed by 20 community groups within and near the project’s footprint.
Posted by eric at October 20, 2009 10:16 AM