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March 31, 2012
In Daily News, Bruce Ratner packs multiple lies into one sentence: "For 100 years, this was a train depot in the middle of downtown Brooklyn."
Atlantic Yards Report
Bruce Ratner tells the New York Daily News, "For 100 years, this was a train depot in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. Now it’s the greatest arena I’ve ever seen.”
No, it wasn't.
About half the arena site was a railyard used to store and service trains. The rest consisted of buildings where people lived and worked, as well as a public street.
Nor was that a depot, in the common definition: a "building for railroad or bus passengers or freight."
Nor was it "in the middle of downtown Brooklyn" but rather in Prospect Heights. And even if you consider the arena site an extension of Downtown Brooklyn--as Forest City surely will argue--it's by no stretch of the imagination in the middle.
NoLandGrab: And that was the least objectionable part of the article.
Posted by eric at March 31, 2012 12:01 AM