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March 18, 2010
Barclays Center groundbreaking has cheers and jeers
The Amsterdam News
by Cyril Josh Barker
With celebration and opposition, the groundbreaking ceremony was held last Thursday for the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards, which has plans to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. Several big names attended the ceremony, including Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Brooklyn-born rapper and businessman Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter.”
...Protesters blew whistles, held signs, chanted and used noisemakers to show their outrage against the project that many say will change the face of the neighborhood.
According to the organization Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), the Atlantic Yards Project would be “instant gentrification.” DDDB believes that 64 percent of housing from the project will go toward high-income families.
Posted by eric at March 18, 2010 11:09 AM