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Atlantic Yards foes aren’t crying uncle yet. A lawyer representing a group of Prospect Heights residents and businesses (Daniel Goldstein and Freddy’s Bar and Backroom among them) challenging the use of eminent domain for Atlantic Yards will argue before an appeals court in Manhattan this morning. The plaintiffs are appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit in June, claiming that any “public purposes [of the project] are pretextual and that the real purpose of a taking is to benefit a private developer.” According to Candace Carponter, the head of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s legal team, if the plaintiffs are successful in their appeal they’ll be guaranteed a trial at the district court level. A separate Atlantic Yards lawsuit that’s looking to annul the project’s final Environmental Impact Statement is also still in the works.
Appeals Court To Hear Atlantic Yards Case [NY Sun]
Plaintiffs Say iIlegitimate Sequence Means Case Deserves Discovery [AYR]
Atlantic Yards to Get Another Day in Court [Curbed]
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  1. Rest assured MLK would have seen through the race trappings of the likes of Forest City Ratner, get real. Having been around in the days of civil rights I can say that with great assurance.
    I dont’ think anyone is speaking on behalf anyone. Nor is this about a goldstein or an anonymous group of posters on a blog. BUT since dddb is actually not just one person as you folks so childishly seem to imply. Since they are accountable to the people who support their cause, the information about their supporters are not lies.

    And so as a member, as an African American, allow me to remind you of this tid bit, below. No one has failed. If the people who lived in the area had not been bought out, their actual investment in the neighborhood would have long cleaned it up. However, both rich and poor have been bullied out of the neighborhood. They were the risk takers, but you insist on calling them names like Nimby. They moved in when you wouldn’t.

    We have over 5,000 subscribers to our email newsletter, 7,000 petition signers, and a nine-person steering committee. Over 700 volunteers have registered with DDDB to form our various teams, task-forces and committees and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our retained attorneys.

  2. Once again, 12:29/10:29/10:32/9:10/9:57/10:07 typify the AY opposition: rude, abrasive, and intolerant of viewpoints other than his/her own. The use of name calling (“jerk”, “dip shit” and “prick”) also demonstrates a lack of class and poor temper control. They feel “nothing good ever came out of being polite,” which flies in the face of theories espoused by great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Mohandas Ghandi. As an African-American, I do NOT support the statements of Mr. Goldstein and in fact believe he doesn’t have any right to speak on behalf of black people. Strident, intolerant, profane. It’s no wonder the opposition has failed so miserably.