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November 16, 2011
Tonight, 11/16, 6pm at Cardozo Law School: Battle for Brooklyn Screening and Panel Discussion
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Tonight at 6pm the Cardozo Real Estate Law Association presents a screening of Battle for Brooklyn followed by a panel discussion including, for the first time, both Daniel Goldstein and Matthew Brinckerhoff:
Daniel Goldstein, co-founder of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), the film's protagonist and lead plaintiff on the eminent domain lawsuit at the core of the film;
Matthew Brinckerhoff, Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady, DDDB legal counsel and attorney for the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case;
Michael Galinsky, Co-Director (with Suki Hawley) of "Battle for Brooklyn," partner of Rumur Films;
Steven Polivy, Chair, Economic Development & Incentives Practice, Akerman Senterfitt LLP.
The film just premiered in Pittsburgh and that city's Post Gazette movie critic called Battle for Brooklyn a "movie for our times," as it captures the zeitgeist like no other film screening today.
The film and panel discussion are free and open to the public. An RSVP is required. RSVP here.
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"Battle for Brooklyn" captures the circus that typically erupts over developments that will wipe out the homes and businesses of the little people: community groups that noisily take to the streets and council chambers under red-hot TV lights, finger-pointing, lawsuits, war chests and passions running as high as the proposed skyscrapers.
..."Battle for Brooklyn" is illuminating, inspiring, discouraging and even predictable -- funny how those promised local jobs never materialize -- and a movie for our times.
Posted by eric at November 16, 2011 11:56 AM