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March 12, 2010
DDDB: Setting the record straight
Gov. Paterson Tells a Humdinger at the Atlantic Yards Groundtaking Ceremony
Governor Paterson said this at Thursday's Atlantic Yards groundtaking ceremony:
"To those who supported the project, and to those who oppose the project, I guarantee that we will be scrupulous in our monitoring of the contract that Forest City Ratner signed with the state, to make sure that everything, we were promised, we receive."
First off, Paterson will be long gone before that monitoring would take place. Moreover, the state was not scrupulous in drawing up the contract, has not been scrupulous in any of its dealing with the public, and has let pretty much all "monitoring" of the project to the developer, Forest City Ratner.
Not So Fast, Bloomberg, You Don't Get to Write the Atlantic Yards History
At Thursday's Atlantic Yards groundtaking ceremony Mayor Bloomberg, in his typical arrogant manner, said, "For those that say it took a long time to get here, yes it did. But nobody's going to remember how long it took. They're only going to look and see that it was done."
Wrong, Mr. Mayor. You don't get to write history on this one, and you'll be out of office long before anything other than the arena is built. Nobody is going to forget the fight that took place over the project, and nobody is going to forget the abuse of power the project represented.
To the contrary, historians will put the project in its rightful place as one of the biggest urban planning blunders any city has ever seen.
Reverend Daughtry's Big Lie at Atlantic Yards Groundtaking Ceremony
One wonders why a man of the cloth would lie through his teeth to mouth a billionaire developer's disgusting talking points.
From NorthJersey.com's account of yesterday's Barclays Center groundbreaking ceremony:
The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, one of the other speakers inside the [groundbreaking ceremony] tent, called the project area “rodent-infested” and “garbage-strewn”...
Posted by eric at March 12, 2010 10:22 PM