Wednesday Blogwrap
Brooklyn Bridge Park Adds To Playground [Gothamist] Top of the Shop: Green in Bklyn [ACGIB] Ode To The Greenpoint Post Office [NYS] Brooklyn’s PS 105 Has the Longest Waiting List [The Brooklyn Ink] B31 Cuts to Happen July 5th [GB] Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Photo by xbettyx from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Adds To Playground [Gothamist]
Top of the Shop: Green in Bklyn [ACGIB]
Ode To The Greenpoint Post Office [NYS]
Brooklyn’s PS 105 Has the Longest Waiting List [The Brooklyn Ink]
B31 Cuts to Happen July 5th [GB]
Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Photo by xbettyx from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
Now Daniel can by a decent house with a garden in Park Slope instead of the apartment he was living in at pollution-central. What a cunning devil.
Wish I were in the park here. Very nice.
Weren’t a bunch of you all saying just a few short days ago that Daniel was an idiot for not taking the money years ago? And that it served him right to get a low-ball offer? That he should know when to quit?
But, now that all of his options have pretty much been exhausted, after years of organizing and fighting, after years of putting up with construction, threats, insults, slurs and worse, and he’d be forced to take whatever the state offers in a month or two (which would probably not been what his place was worth), he does what any one of you would do and makes the best possible deal he could for himself and his family, he’s a sellout?
I am grateful for people like Daniel and others who have fought the good fight FOR YEARS against very powerful foes for what they believe in. I don’t begrudge one penny he and his family will get in this deal. I think they deserve every penny. This fight has probably taken years off their lives.
It’s really odd to me that so many are up in arms about Daniel getting $3M after a 7-year battle, but attack others who point out the shady dealings of FCR and elected officials who are supposed to be working for us.
I’m still very much proud of Dan Goldstein who clearly fought the good fight! So, he didn’t win the war — much to the dismay of many of us. But, at least he didn’t end up losing both the fight and the shirt off his back. Nor should he have. IMO, two of the best two quotes from the commenters are these:
1. “Mr. Goldstein spent seven years of his life fighting for something he believed in. This is more than most people will ever do in their entire lifetimes. . . .
Mr. Goldstein’s critics quixotically have no problem with developer Bruce Ratner profiting from hundred of millions of dollars in tax money but instead focus on whether Mr. Goldstein’s condo sold for more than it was worth. One can only marvel at their contention that his secret plan was really to spend seven years fighting the mayor, the state and a billionaire developer all to make some money on his condo.
Thank you Daniel for giving so much time and effort to the cause.”
2. “There is nothing wrong with losing with money in your pocket.”
“According to executives who have been briefed on the negotiations, Mr. Goldstein also agreed to a highly modified form of the gag agreement that Forest City had initially imposed on those it bought out, under which he would step down as spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
Mr. Goldstein said that he retains his right to free speech but is no longer allowed to “actively oppose the project.â€
So in the end, he lowered all of his supposed ethical standards and got bought out and hushed up!!!
ROTFLMMFAO at all of you supporting this low life.
Can’t believe this link did not make it here!!
“Daniel Goldstein, Last Atlantic Yards Holdout, Sells for $3 Million”
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/daniel-goldstein-last-atlantic-yards-holdout-sells-for-3-million/
The playground at BBP Pier 6 looks like a LOT more fun than those silver domes on Pier 1.
xbettyx, love the Brooklyn Botannical Garden photo!