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November 13, 2009
Eminent-domain outrage in Conn. shows why Ratner's Yards plan stirs anger
NY Daily News
by Juan Gonzalez
It is not just New London, of course, where local governments have rushed to use eminent domain in recent years to bulldoze neighborhoods for the benefit of the rich and powerful.
Here in this town, the Bloomberg administration keeps trying to seize properties in downtown Brooklyn to make way for the giant Forest City Ratner Atlantic Yards Project. In Willets Point, Queens, it wants to condemn scores of small businesses for another grandiose commercial development project.
But local residents and owners, like Dan Goldstein of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, and Jake Bono of Willets Point United, refuse to give in.
Kelo and her neighbors in Trumbull may have lost their homes, they say, but the fight they started continues.
Posted by eric at November 13, 2009 10:54 AM