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October 13, 2009
Suit Challenges Sale of Land to Atlantic Yards Developer
City Room
by Charles V. Bagli
With the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn inching closer to a ground-breaking, opponents of the 22-acre development filed another lawsuit on Tuesday morning challenging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s decision to sell the developer a portion of the land in what it says is a sweetheart deal that violates state law.
The suit, filed by Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and four elected officials, asks the State Supreme Court to nullify the authority’s recent deal to sell an 8.5-acre railyard at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues to the developer Bruce C. Ratner without first getting an independent appraisal and soliciting competing offers for the property.
...A spokesman for the M.T.A. declined to comment on the lawsuit, the fifth filed by Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. This suit, however, marks the first time that elected officials have joined them.
Posted by eric at October 13, 2009 2:52 PM