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June 6, 2011
Brooklyn Film Festival. Battle for Brooklyn
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The Brooklyn Film Festival commenced this year with a documentary called Battle for Brooklyn. No, that’s not Sarah Palin’s take on the Revolutionary War. It’s the story of love, power, greed, deceit and dedication in the shadow of the Atlantic Yards project.
...The hero of the film is Daniel Goldstein, the one guy who held out until the end. For seven years, he fought the project while staying in his empty apartment building where all of his neighbors had been bought out. He went to protests, court proceedings and had to have lived every single day of his life under severe stress not knowing where he was going to end up. He got a decent settlement in the end once there was nothing left to fight over. Funny that some people say he did it for the money. I don’t think any amount of money in the world would make me want to live like that. Someone has to fight for people’s rights and he had the chutzpah. Seven years.
Posted by eric at June 6, 2011 11:02 AM