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October 2, 2011
Daily News claims Goldstein "disses neighbors" by pursuing as-of-right renovation/addition
Atlantic Yards Report
The Daily News article today hyped as an "exclusive," Daniel Goldstein fought the Atlantic Yards project, but disses neighbors with his own construction, reminds me of the tabloid reporter described in The Submission, Amy Waldman's new 9/11 novel:
A tabby all the way--that's what she was. She had no ideology, believed only in information, which she obtained, traded, peddled, packaged, and published, and she opposed any effort to doctor her product.
So Goldstein, a co-founder of Develop Don't Dstroy Brooklyn, bought a new house in Park Slope and planned a renovation and addition. His neighbors don't like it, according to the Daily News:
Next-door neighbor Kathryn Roake, 59, says Goldstein's 18-foot, three-story addition to the back of his building will block the light to her beloved fruit and vegetable garden.
She and another neighbor also think that construction will damage their houses.
What's missing
Here's what's missing from the article: whether Goldstein's plans violate zoning in some way, or whether he's requested a variance from the Department of Buildings.
No, and no.
Nor was any evidence offered showing that the addition would, in fact, block the sun, despite the Daily News's conclusory caption:
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So the Daily News elevated a garden-variety dispute into a tabloid story.
Related coverage...
Daily News, Neighbors fuming as anti-Atlantic Yards activist Daniel Goldstein plans large addition to new home
By Erin Durkin
The Brooklyn activist who led the resistance to the Atlantic Yards project has angered his new neighbors with a construction project of his own.
Daniel Goldstein, whose Prospect Heights condo was seized by eminent domain to make way for the new Nets arena and 16-tower project, bought a new home in Park Slope earlier this year - and neighbors are seething over his plans to build an addition.
Posted by steve at October 2, 2011 10:42 PM