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September 20, 2012
Last man standing in the way of Barclays Center plan to picket ceremonial ribbon cutting
Daniel Goldstein and members of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn plan to let developer Bruce Ratner know that they're not going away.
NY Daily News
by Erin Durkin and Corky Siemaszko
The big shots will be congratulating each other when Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center opens Friday, but some of the little guys will be jeering.
Daniel Goldstein and members of his anti-Atlantic Yards group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn plan to picket the ceremonial ribbon-cutting — and let mega-developer Bruce Ratner know they are not going away.
“We intend to remind people that Ratner . . . has yet to make good on promises he made to provide good jobs and cheap apartments when he got the go-ahead to build the arena,” he said.
For Goldstein, 41, the fight against the Barclays Center is not academic, it’s personal. He was the last thing standing in the way of Ratner’s plans to level part of a Prospect Heights neighborhood and build an arena. In many ways, he’s the public face of the controversy over eminent domain, offering a critique about crony capitalism and greed later picked up by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Posted by eric at September 20, 2012 12:09 PM