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January 26, 2011
Required Reading for Brooklynites of a Political Persuasion: What’s Happening to Our Borough?
About.com Brooklyn, NY Blog
by Ellen Freudenheim
In case you missed them, two important pieces were published in the past few days about Brooklyn. Not about restaurants and places to spend money, but about Brooklyn's fundamental direction--and the power of big developers to literally shape the landscape of a borough that so many call home.
"We're Essentially Powerless"
Sunday's New York Times published a powerful piece calling out Brooklyn's lack of political muscle. Brooklyn civic activist Norman Oder (who, as author of the Atlantic Yards Report blog, certainly has had a birdseye view of power politics in Brooklyn) says, "We lack meaningful local government, as well as broad-based media and civic organizations." His conclusion? Putting it mildly, "Brooklyn's powerful developers, institutions and politicians often evade scrutiny."
Posted by eric at January 26, 2011 11:13 AM