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December 23, 2010
Year in Review: 2010
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Look back in anger.
MARCH
New York state takes ownership of the land inside the footprint of Atlantic Yards via eminent domain, after Justice Abraham Gerges finalizes a Court of Appeals ruling that deems it constitutional. Several days later, several floors of the courthouse are evacuated as Justice Gerges is sent an envelope filled with suspicious white powder, later found to be inert. In April, Develop Don’t Destroy co-founder Daniel Goldstein, plaintiff in numerous suits to stop the project, accepts $3 million from developer Forest City Ratner to move out of his condo. He is the last to vacate the footprint. In November, the first steel beams of the project are erected.
Posted by eric at December 23, 2010 6:37 PM