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April 15, 2010
Home at The Atlantic Yards
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by Katherine Krause
After years of lawsuits, protests and fighting it looks like Bruce Ratner’s mega real-estate plan Atlantic Yards is actually going to happen. It will be the second largest construction project in NYC, after the World Trade Center. The courts ruled that eminent domain, which is typically used in cases of highways or airports, could be used to take away private citizens homes and businesses so that we could have more condos and the Brooklyn Nets. Alexa Williams and Sean Ilnesher are among the last people left who have been trying to stay in their house, despite the mail not being delivered, cameras being placed on their property and their electric being shut off. To illustrate why they want to stay in their building, which will soon be turned into a parking lot, they painted a mural this weekend with simply the word “home.” The video after the jump is a sweet and up-lifting documentation of a sad moment for both them and for Brooklyn.
Untitled from katherinekrause on Vimeo.
Posted by eric at April 15, 2010 12:31 PM