Another Anti-AY Suit Gets Tossed
Atlantic Yards opponents have lost one of the very last legal challenges against the mega-project, according to a statement just released by Forest City Ratner. The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, has denied an appeal to a lawsuit challenging the development’s use of eminent domain. No word yet from Develop Don’t Destroy, but…
Atlantic Yards opponents have lost one of the very last legal challenges against the mega-project, according to a statement just released by Forest City Ratner. The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, has denied an appeal to a lawsuit challenging the development’s use of eminent domain. No word yet from Develop Don’t Destroy, but here’s what Bruce Ratner had to say: “Today’s decision is more than another victory for Atlantic Yards…It is a victory for public good and the importance of investing in diverse communities throughout the City. Atlantic Yards will bring thousands of affordable homes and needed jobs to Brooklyn. We believe, and the courts have repeatedly agreed, that these are real benefits that will have a significantly positive impact on the borough and the City. The decision means the only lawsuit still pending against Atlantic Yards is an appeal regarding the project’s environmental impact statement.
Federal Court Rejects Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Appeal [The Real Estate]
Main Atlantic Yards Suit Dismissed [Curbed]
Anti-AY Lawsuits: And Then There Was One [Brownstoner]
Photo by Daniel A. Norman
Alot of you pro yards people are lunatics. Grow up, Brooklyn can progress without imitating Manhattan. If you want to live in Manhattan, move there.
Alot of you anti yards people are lunatics. Grow up, Brooklyn will progress. If you want to live on a farm move to Iowa
i grew up close by, family still lives over there, and many friends are still there, so i’m basically there all time. only people i know of who are not happy with the development are EDd property owners and displaced residents.
truthfully, most people i encounter who are against this project, never go around the area, have no connection to it, and are just generally against anything involving EmmD.
Brownstoner will be worthless once AY is built.
Asthma is red herring?
Say what?
“However, if you look inside the average to its highs and lows, it becomes clear that not every New York family is benefiting from decreased infant mortalities. If you live in Kips Bay in Manhattan or Red Hook, Brooklyn, infant deaths are the lowest in the city: 1.4 to 2.2 per 1000 births, respectively. If you happen to give birth to a child in Central Harlem, however, the death rate more than doubles from the city average to 13.1 babies dying for every 1000 born. In Bedford, Brooklyn, 10 out of every 1000 infants die, and in Flatbush, 7.4.”
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/children/20030506/2/379
“Babies born in poor neighborhoods are 10 times more likely to die than babies born in the most economically advantaged neighborhoods,” wrote Frieden, promising to “prioritize public health efforts to communities that need them the most.”
The most common causes of infant deaths are premature births/low birth weight, birth defects, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
But hey at least when Ratner’s done, it will be a very rich wealthy neighborhood so if any poor folk remain…maybe they be healthier.
I agree with 12:05 PM.
Do the AY haters have any data to prove that it will negatively impact the area.
YOU AGREE WITH A GUY WHO SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD DIE FOR NOT WANTING TO HAND OVER THEIR PROPERTY FOR SOME RICH SCHMUCK NAMED RATNER?
AND THEN YOU CALL THEM AY HATERS??
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND????
YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE OVER THIS?
YOU” PRO AY “LOVERS” ARE JUST SICK TWISTED HATE MONGERS AND WHY ANYONE BOTHERS TO FIGHT FOR A BORO FULL OF YOU NAZIESQUE PEOPLE< IS BEYOND ME>
DIE? REALLY?
UNBELIEVABLE< PLEASE GET A GRIP ON WHO "HATES" WHO!
This along with all the other over development disasters (Domino sugar plant etc) will go down as the beginning of the end of this City.
The justification for all of these abuses is that the City is expecting an additional 1 million people in the next 30 years.
It’s all a big lie. They are not accounting for the millions who are leaving. And that doesn’t even take into consideration the millions who are NOW being forced out of this City.
Put this note in a vault –
In 2030 The population of NYC will be little more than it is now. It may very well be considerably less. The city will be full of barren monstrosities that will be used as homeless shelters. And we will be begging the state and the federal government for financing to bail us out.
While somewhere in Israel, Europe the Caribbean, or god knows where, the Ratners, and Katan’s of this world will be laughing at the stupid New Yorkers.
On September 24, 2001, as New York firefighters were still picking their comrades’ body parts out of the World Trade Center wreckage, New York Times Co.Vice Chairman and Senior Vice President Michael Golden announced that the Gray Lady was ready to do its part in the healing.
Those “values” and “democratic ideals” included using eminent domain to forcibly evict 55 businesses–including a trade school, a student housing unit, a Donna Karan outlet, and several mom-and-pop stores–against their will, under the legal cover of erasing “blight,” in order to clear ground for a 52-story skyscraper. The Times and Ratner, who never bothered making an offer to the property owners, bought the Port Authority-adjacent property at a steep discount ($85 million) from a state agency that seized the 11 buildings on it; should legal settlements with the original tenants exceed that amount, taxpayers will have to make up the difference. On top of that gift, the city and state offered the Times $26 million in tax breaks for the project, and Ratner even lobbied to receive $400 million worth of U.S. Treasury-backed Liberty Bonds–instruments created by Congress to help rebuild Lower Manhattan. Which is four miles away.
When the “lowe/moderate income housing” disappears, all the asshats who come on here and tout it should have to give up their homes to low/moderate income people.