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June 20, 2011
NetsDaily Off-Season Report #10: Battle for Brooklyn continues...or so they say
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Pseudonymous blogger Net Income (we'd choose a pseudonym too were we to squander countless hours writing about the woeful Nets) weighs in on Battle for Brooklyn.
This supposedly has energized the critics who have lost all their major court battles. They like Bruce Ratner are awaiting the final and long overdue ruling from Manhattan judge Marcy Friedman on whether a new environmental impact study is needed on the project beyond the arena. In the meantime, they are pushing ideas, big and small: a new plan for the rest of the project beyond the arena, should Friedman give them a "Hail Mary" victory and ask for a rethinking of the Atlantic Yards master plan, and some additional oversight, which will require new legislation. Neither are very likely.
Their biggest enemy right now (beyond the construction workers banging away at the site) seems to be Barry Baum, the Barclays Center's indefatigable senior vice president for public relations. While the critics laud the "Battle for Brooklyn", Baum spends his days donning a construction helmet and taking reporters to the construction site, wowing them with the prospects of a new entertainment and culture center for Brooklyn.
Posted by eric at June 20, 2011 9:38 AM