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June 16, 2011
Atlantic Yards Fight Gets Re-Energized
As construction moves forward, the emphasis shifts to 2013 elections and moving control of the site from state to local entities.
Park Slope Patch
by Amy Sara Clark
The Barclays Center may be rising, but locals have far from given up the fight against developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards mega project.
Instead, community members have refocused their energy on trying to stop over development from coming to the rest of the Atlantic Yards site, primarily through political means.
“That site is going to be contested for decades. People think it’s all over because they see an arena going up,” said Daniel Goldstein, one of the main organizers of the activist group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, at a community strategy meeting that drew well over 100. Goldstein emphasized that the battle is far from over.
...“I don’t know about you but I’m not prepared to surrender my community to a developer,” said James at the meeting. “I’m not prepared to surrender and I’m not prepared to give up.”
Posted by eric at June 16, 2011 10:53 PM