Another Day, Another Atlantic Yards Lawsuit
With another lawsuit scheduled to be filed by opponents of the current plan for Atlantic Yards (bringing the number of outstanding suits to four), the paper of record “plays catchup” (in the words of Norman Oder) today in a longer-than-usual article on the topic. While today’s lawsuit takes aims at what the petitioners call a…
With another lawsuit scheduled to be filed by opponents of the current plan for Atlantic Yards (bringing the number of outstanding suits to four), the paper of record “plays catchup” (in the words of Norman Oder) today in a longer-than-usual article on the topic. While today’s lawsuit takes aims at what the petitioners call a “fatally flawed” Environmental Impact Statement, The Times article focuses more on the lack of financial transparency in the project, namely the fact that no one who signed off on the project ever saw a financial plan for the project. The buck-passing and semantic side-stepping approaches the comical. We did not receive a document labeled ‘financial plan,’ but the information we received, taken together, constitutes a financial plan, said ESDC spokesman Errol Cockfield, before adding, “The important distinction is to point out that the project was approved by the previous administration, not this administration.” In a statement that says exactly nothing, FCR spokesman Loren Riegelhaupt, said that the company was not able to make our business plan public for proprietary reasons. Translation: They just didn’t want to.
Clearing of AY Site Proceeds as Legal Thicket Grows Denser [NY Times]
Opponents To File Suit On Atlantic Yards [NY Sun]
Times Plays Catchup on AY, Bobbles Several Balls [AY Report]
Photo by Tracy Collins
9:50,
No need to think again, as he paid the others double the value.
I’m a taxpayer and I say it’s okay to for the city to subsidize this project with my tax dollars.
Lets Go Nets!!!!
Bruce Ratner is an anti-American terrorist scumbag.
4:26 You think Ratner will pay you doublee the value of your home? Think again!
Failure, Plan B, bake sales . . . SO WHAT????
This isn’t Ratner’s borough, it’s our damn borough and guess what, despite all the politicians that have been paid for, we still have the right to protest, file suits and hold bake sales.
A billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to Bruce Ratner and we should do nothing? C’mon.
“It’s called not putting all your eggs in one basket”
No, it’s called “acknoledgement of imminent failure, so proceed to plan B”.
Good. Maybe Ratner will pay me double the value of my home. I’ll sell in a minute.
Fear tactics are sooooo effective.
“Holding bake sales? Having over-the-hill punk rockers hold a benefit concert? Have third-rate comedians tell jokes at a local watering hole”
and walkathons, and solicit donations from people who care about brooklyn…it all adds up….care to help out?
Anyway read over the complaint, the ESDC ‘f*cked up’ big time.
And further fellow anon, one of the focuses is the ‘blight’ study. if the area they declared blighted is blighted, than no home is safe yours included
it’s called not putting all your eggs in one basket. the opponents’ ability to pay their legal bill is strictly a matter between the client and the attorney.