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April 20, 2010
Curtain to fall on last Atlantic Yards holdouts
Expected court order to seal the fate of the remaining 35 residents and businesses; Freddie's [sic] Bar on Dean Street, host of many an anti-project party, to close April 30.
Crain's NY Business
by Theresa Agovino
By May 17, all the people that live in or run businesses in the Atlantic Yards' footprint will be evicted, if the Empire State Development Corp. has its way.
On Wednesday, the ESDC will ask Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Abraham Gerges to sign an order that will remove all occupants in the area where Forest City Ratner is slated to build a massive commercial, residential and retail project anchored by an 18,000-seat arena for the Nets on a 22-acre site. There are currently 32 residential occupants and 3 businesses remaining on the property acquired by the ESDC. Freddie's [sic] Bar on Dean Street, which hosted countless protests against the project over the last several years, will finally close its doors on April 30.
An ESDC spokeswoman said that the agency couldn't predict what date the judge would set or whether he would make a decision on Wednesday. However, she said that the agency didn't believe the date would be significantly later than May 17.
NoLandGrab: Forest City Ratner is "slated" to build an arena — it's anybody's guess as to the rest of it. And is it that hard for Crain's and Theresa Agovino to spell "Freddy's" correctly, a bar that's been around since Prohibition and which has figured prominently in the six-and-a-half-year-old Atlantic Yards saga?
Posted by eric at April 20, 2010 11:11 AM