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
Quoting and modifying from the above blurb:
…Here’s what Bruce Ratner had to say: “Today’s decision is more than another victory for Atlantic Yards…It is a victory for our good and the importance of investing in our diverse bank accounts throughout the City. Atlantic Yards will bring thousands of dollars and, in fact, millions to our pockets. We believe, and the courts have repeatedly agreed, that these are real benefits to us that will have a significantly positive impact our wealth.â€
You go, Johnny. I agree. Too dense, too tall and study after study has shown marginal public good and pyback of sports arenas. I like development and adore housing but appropriate height and density, respect for an urban grid, variation in the urban fabric appear ignore in this project.
If you are dumb enough to drive 5 inches from the second largest transit hub in the city, then you deserve every traffic-induced headache you encounter.
And don’t talk to me about asthma–if you want to breathe clean air, move to Vermont.
http://www.atlanticyardsreport.com
dddb.org
Talk about spin! Problem is they’re spinning a very sad but inconsequential song and howling wildly across the barren the wilderness of special-interest and NIMBY.
I wish people were better informed.
The densest housing in America. Madison Square Garden sitting next to a housing development that’s larger than Battery Park City, all on an interesction that’s already a congestion nightmare.
The question (to those that graduated high school) is not whether this will create jobs, it’s whether there’s $2 billion of net benefit. Read the traffic study. Go to the Garden after a game and say “Boy do I wish I lived a block away from this.” And then say “Boy, aren’t I glad I did nothing while $2 billion of my tax money went to recreating midtown Manhattan in my neighborhood, where I used to be able to live.”
There are legitimate issues with the proper scope of eminent domain, but the environmental lawsuit is bogus. There is no better place to put people and activity than at a transit hub like that one. The fact that living near the project will not be the equivalent of living in the woods does not change this.
Uh, yeah, 12:09. It’s in the 1400-page environmental impact statement prepared for the Empire State Development Corporation and paid for by the developer. Even if people ignore such issues as a possible terror threat and glare from aluminum-clad Gehry-designed buildings, the report is full of negative impacts, many of which the study admits are “unmitigatable.” I tire of the hysteria too, but there is no doubt that there will be negative impacts associated with this project.
There is a great deal of data about the negatives of the project and the spin that has successfully made you think otherwise at
http://www.atlanticyardsreport.com
it isn’t laid out on a plate for you there- you actually have to read it.
You can also visit dddb.org to read other information- it’s been there for years.
They’ll take it to the Supremes.
We’ll see. The conservative jurists might take the case.