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January 8, 2010

Atlantic Yards Drives Freddy's Mad

Curbed.com

Freddy's Bar, the Dean Street dive in the Atlantic Yards footprint soon to be seized by the power of eminent domain despite the bar's attempts to decapitate it, is feeling emboldened by a pair of recent events: the scathing anti-Atlantic Yards column written by George Will, and the connection of developer Forest City Ratner to a White Planes bribery scandal. Though none of this is enough to derail the project, it didn't stop Freddy's from issuing the most epic e-mail in the history of the Atlantic Yards Resistance.

The email starts:

Freddy's Bar is in a State of Revolt against New York State's Eminent Domain Law.

Click here to read the rest.

Posted by lumi at January 8, 2010 5:19 AM