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
“You gonna go tell the poor, inner-city, minority families”
I’ll ask them if they want to try for a job at an AY business or AY-related business, and perhaps they or a family member will qualify for low/moderate -income housing in the development. That should go over pretty well.
“Another issue:
Thanks to the closing of the walkable Carlton Avenue Bridge and NO pedestrian overpass, I now have double the walk time to go from one neighb to the other.”
I can actually FEEL my heart breaking! This is devastating!!!
Nobody’s said it yet, so I will:
D O N E D E A L ! ! !
Asthma is another red-hearing – it is far far more correlated to Demographic issues then enviromental ones (Central Harlem & Bushwick have very high rates – and Chinatown has low rates – explain???) and besides locating convenient it mass transit is the BEST way of improving the enviroment for ALL.
I am still cautious but feeling slightly more confident.
Another issue:
Thanks to the closing of the walkable Carlton Avenue Bridge and NO pedestrian overpass, I now have double the walk time to go from one neighb to the other.
I thought I could walk it the other night with heavy groceries like I usually do but half way through I opted to take a cab that was idling at a red light. I didn’t think I could make the second half of the huge walk-around I now have to do. Because of all the one-way issues, etc. it cost me $6+ to get from 6th Avenue to mid-Fort Greene.
I had hoped to take the B67 Bus on 7th Avenue. Hung out for a while and then realized the schedule at that hour is only one bus every 30 minutes (ideally) so I walked down Union and then along 6th Ave.
With the walk AND the cab, I STILL took me longer than my normal 20 minute walk down I always did down 7th Avenue, crossing Flatbush and then taking Carlton all the way into FG.
Signed,
Annoyed in Brooklyn
For those of you wildly in favor of the project, please, when you pay your city taxes, add 500 dollars or a grand to the amount to show your appreciation for Mr R, cause that is where your tax dollars are going.
Go Ratner!
This lawsuit will be worthless when AY is built.
Hey 12:34pm: You gonna go tell the poor, inner-city, minority families whose children are disproportionately afflicted with asthma to move to Vermont? I’d love to watch you try and see them kick you in your fat, dumb ass. Did you not know that around 200 people die every year (including little kids) in NYC from asthma? Hey, air pollution? No problem. NOT.