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August 2, 2011
With demolition of a family shelter, the last existing residences in the Atlantic Yards footprint will be eliminated
Atlantic Yards Watch
Forest City Ratner Company is in the process of demolishing 603 Dean Street, one half of the 94 unit residential family shelter formerly known as the Pacific Dean Annex. The shelter's residences are the last to be demolished in the project footprint.
In the 2006 FEIS, the ESDC estimated 171 residential units and 410 residents would be directly displaced by the project. That number did not include the shelter's family residences.
...When it was closed in January 2010, the public was told the shelter would be demolished soon thereafter. Residents were given roughly a month to move during the Christmas holiday period. According to shelter officials at the time, no relocation assistance was provided to the shelter residents by the developer. BrooklynSpeaks sponsors raised funds to alleviate moving costs for the families.
Video: N. Wayne Bailey
Posted by eric at August 2, 2011 11:08 PM