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January 21, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
Runnin' Scared [The Village Voice], Bill de Blasio Pleads with Bloomberg to Return to the Enlightened Homeless Policies of Rudy Giuliani
[Public Advocate Bill] De Blasio also asked that the city stop directing homeless clients to substandard flophouses, and stop closing down homeless shelters, citing a couple of Manhattan centers that the Bloomberg Administration plans or is thinking about closing.
No Land Grab is unimpressed. "What prevented [de Blasio]," they ask, "from standing with the protesters Monday night who held a vigil for families being evicted from the Prospect Heights shelter in the Atlantic Yards footprint that Bruce Ratner plans to turn into a parking lot?"
The Infrastructurist, The Evening Dig: Congressional Impotence Edition
Community organizations are suing the developer of Atlantic Yards for failing to meet state environmental impact requirements in its modified plan and for threatening to “blight” the area already (wrongly?) designated as “blighted.” (Mobilizing the Region)
Gideon's Trumpet, Worms in the Big Apple
But there is one amazing item in this article. It quotes one Kathryn S. Wylde, as deploring the Kaur decision: “The Columbia decision ‘is the first thing that’s happened in New York that suggests the threat of a change in our eminent domain law.’” Oh my God! Run for the hills, folks, for if New York changes its eminent domain law that might be curtains for the civilized world as we know it. It’s frightening, that’s what it is. Quoth Ms. Wylde: “I think it’s frightening . . . “
So who is this Kathryn S. Wylde? Is she perhaps some anti-property rights type? Some radical prole? Actually, no. She is identified by the Times as chief executive of the Partnership for New York City, “a leading business group.” Yep. A leading business group supports takings of business properties of others for its own benefit. Which in New York means confiscating businesses of others, because New York law does not allow recovery of compensation for business losses suffered in eminent domain cases.
What's Good Blog, The Worst Team in Professional Basketball History
Tonight is the halfway mark for what MIGHT BE THE WORST TEAM IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL history. The New Jersey Nets are the laughing stock of all of sports. Rod and Kiki have been humiliated, but survive, so far with their professional and personal reputations intact. Bruce Ratner, a hot shot real estate mogul, has been allowed to torch the team right under the eyes of the embalmed commissioner David Stern.
NoLandGrab: What MIGHT BE THE WORST TEAM IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL history dropped to 3-38 with last night's blowout 24-point defeat in Phoenix. Way to go, Bruce Ratner!
Brooklyn Street Art, SPECTER: THE GENTRIFICATION SERIES
To use a mangled metaphor, it looks like street artist Specter has thrown his terry cloth headband into the basketball ring in the ongoing Atlantic Yards dispute between pro-development and anti-gentrification forces in downtown Brooklyn.
Photo: Jaime Rojo
Posted by lumi at January 21, 2010 9:06 AM