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July 8, 2011
Goldstein Comes to Heights Cinema for Q&A on Film
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Raanan Geberer
Viewers of a special showing of the documentary The Battle for Brooklyn, about the struggle against the construction of the Atlantic Yards project, on Wednesday night were treated to a Q-and-A with Daniel Goldstein, the co-founder of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
...Judging by the questions, the audience members were sympathetic to the filmmakers’ and Goldstein’s point of view.
In response to one question, Goldstein said that the Unity Plan for developing the area, which the Extell Plan was based on, may not be dead after all. He called attention to the recent “Unity 4” meeting sponsored by Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, Councilwoman James and state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery. (The original architect who designed the plan, Marshall Brown, is now in Chicago but still takes an interest in the issue.)
Briefly, Goldstein said that although the arena is under construction, there is no action yet on the promised housing development in the other parts of the Atlantic Yards site, which are now dominated by parking lots. “As of now, not one apartment of housing has been designed,” he said.
He added that, ideally, the various parcels of land involved could be given to different developers, using the Unity 4 principles as a starting point, rather than have one developer responsible for building the entire site.
Posted by eric at July 8, 2011 10:52 AM