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September 24, 2012
For Former Opponent of Atlantic Yards, a Smaller-Scale Battle
The New York Times
by Elizabeth A. Harris
Perhaps needing to make up with its development partner for a reasonably reported — and therefore damning — story on the Barclays Center ribbon-cutting, The Times discovers a year after everyone else that Daniel Goldstein bought a new home.
Since last year, however, Mr. Goldstein has been at the nexus of some far more localized real estate tension. He has been building an extension on the back of his new home in South Park Slope, and from the very start, relations with both of his next-door neighbors have been bumpy.
It began in the backyard, when one neighbor, Kathryn Roake, saw Mr. Goldstein’s architect through the fence and was told the plans. According to Mr. Goldstein, the conversation concluded with Ms. Roake saying she hoped that his house burned down.
Not everyone is a sociopath, though.
Many people on the block have no problem with Mr. Goldstein’s extension. Nancy Carpenter, who, along with her husband, bought Ms. Frost’s home, said she was excited for the new neighbors to move in. Ms. Carpenter fears, however, that the Barclays Center will overwhelm its neighborhood, and she called Mr. Goldstein’s campaigning against the project “honorable.”
Posted by eric at September 24, 2012 2:13 PM