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March 10, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere... again...
Pardon Me For Asking, Come Out To Protest Atlantic Yards Groundbreaking Tomorrow
While we have been busy here in Carroll Gardens fighting for a clean Gowanus Canal and for the contextual re-zoning of our lovely brownstone neighborhood, a much bigger fight has been going on against the Atlantic Yards project.
Community activists have worked tirelessly to protect Brooklyn from Bruce Ratners wrecking balls, but corruption, greed and our self-serving politicians are a powerful force to reckon with. The objections and concerns of Brooklyn residents were disregarded at every turn.
Tomorrow a big rally is being organized to protest Bruce Ratner's groundbreaking ceremony. I will certainly be there to join my Brooklyn neighbors. Please be there as well.
Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods via Found in Brooklyn, !!!PROTEST EMINENT DOMAIN at Atlantic Yards "Groundbreaking" Ceremony!!! Thursday @12:30!!!
The Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods today called on its dozens of member organizations and the tens of thousands of community residents of Prospect Heights, Ft. Greene, Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant and Boerum Hill, and all citizens disgusted with the abuse of public process that is called Atlantic Yards, to show up for a protest to the “groundbreaking” scheduled for March 11, 2010.
Curbed, Architecture Dream Team Being Assembled for Atlantic Yards?
The Nets are hopeless, so developer Bruce Ratner is reportedly looking at other ways to infuse his controversial Brooklyn megaproject with talent. Bring on the starchitects! There are 16 residential high-rises that are still part (in theory) of Atlantic Yards, with construction on the first—for which no design has been revealed—slated to begin next spring. Ratner already sacked the biggest name of them all, so who's he looking at now? Here's one: Freedom Tower—pardon, 1 World Trade Center—designer David Childs, who told the Brooklyn Paper that he has discussed working on one of the Atlantic Yards towers with Ratner. And then Childs went and did it: He got our hopes up!
Childs added: "Bruce wants to bring in different architects, good architects, to do each of the residential buildings. That’s something I'd be very excited about. Talking to Bruce, it’s clear that he wants to do this right. He really does." If you say so, buddy. Frank Gehry was tossed off the project in a cost-cutting move, so it's unclear how much Ratner is really willing to spend to import some flashy names.
Gothamist, New Architects For Atlantic Yards?
After firing famed architect Frank Gehry in an effort to cut costs, the developer of the controversial Atlantic Yards project is in talks with the man who designed the Freedom Tower. Architect David Childs told the Brooklyn Paper that Atlantic Yards builder Bruce Ratner asked him to give plans for the proposed basketball arena a "once over," and also discussed hiring him to construct one of the 16 skyscrapers that Ratner wants to build on the site.
Reason Hit & Run, Atlantic Yards Opponent Daniel Goldstein: "I actually don’t feel like I live in New York City or a free country anymore.”
Atlantic Yards Report brings word of the latest ordeal suffered by Brooklyn homeowner Daniel Goldstein as developer Bruce Ratner and his partners in the state government move forward with their plans to build a basketball stadium on top of Goldstein’s home.
PoliticalDog101.com, Counterpoint….Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn isn’t happy about the upcoming Nets move to Brooklyn…..
The New Jersey Nets are coming to Downtown Brooklyn…..
That’s gonna happen….it’s already started ….as you can see in the photo below…
New York City and New York State have gone to court and won it’s use of eminent domain to clear businesses and the property where the new Nets stadium will be built by a group of private investors over a Long Island Railroad yard and the surrounding area…..
My son has sent me the counterpoint here…about the people who will have to move from this 22 acre development track…..
Freddy’s in Brooklyn….. a nice looking bar….. is gonna have to relocate…..
Wood Art Word, Collective Memory
This blog item actually has nothing to do with Atlantic Yards, except this...
I went to the Asheville East End community meeting last week and got to know some of my neighbors a little better. We did some “meet and greet” activities to get us to mix up a little more. I found there were two major groups: people who had lived their whole lives in the area and people who just recently moved here. I really enjoyed myself, I’ve been wanting to connect more with my surroundings and ease up on the homesickness a little. (although I realize home isn’t exactly home anymore after reading an article on that nasty stadium in the Atlantic Yards of Brooklyn being underway, but I digress…..)
Posted by eric at March 10, 2010 11:18 PM