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March 18, 2010
On Just Two of the Self-serving Fibs Told at Ratner's Groundtaking Ceremony
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
You'd think if the Atlantic Yards project was half as good for Brooklyn as its proponents claim it would be, they wouldn't need to make things up.
DDDB sets the record straight on a couple pernicious lies.
Correcting a couple of mythological whoppers highlighted by Ratner & Friends at their arena groundtaking ceremony:
Ratner & Friends claimed there were 34 lawsuits against his project.
There weren't.
There were eight against various abuses exhibited by the project, its process and its involved agencies.Ratner & Friends claimed that Atlantic Yards would displace four commercial occupants and about 35 residents occupying 15 apartments.
Wrong.
When Ratner announced his project in December 2003 it was immediately clear that eminent domain would be used to remove all of these businesses and residents. And it was. At the time there were 33 businesses with 235 employees, 162 homes with 334 residents, and a long-term family homeless shelter housing close to 400 individuals. They all will all be gone eventually and eminent domain will have been used to clear the site.
Posted by eric at March 18, 2010 1:20 PM