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March 11, 2010
Ground Broken on Atlantic Yards Project
City Room
by Kareem Fahim
After years of delays and lawsuits, officials broke ground Thursday afternoon on $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn.
Sitting in a tent at Atlantic and Fifth Avenues, Gov. David A. Paterson acknowledged the years of battles over the project. “As the buildings rise on Atlantic Yards,” he said, “the joblessness rate will fall here in Brooklyn.”
Meanwhile, outside the "Green Zone..."
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Daniel Goldstein confronts his tormentors (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)
A few hundred feet away, crowds of protesters, their legal options all but exhausted, hooted and whistled loudly enough to make their voices heard.
At one point, the protesters wandered into the traffic on Atlantic Avenue, and one protester, an activist with the local Green Party, was arrested for disorderly conduct, according to the police and other protesters.
NoLandGrab: The "disorderly conduct" was banging on a drum. In Ratnerville, pile drivers and all-night-long "infrasturcture" work are A-OK. Music-making? Not so much.
Posted by eric at March 11, 2010 10:46 PM