Appeal Over Atlantic Yards Suit is Filed
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and 25 co-plaintiffs are appealing a judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit over Atlantic Yards’ environmental impact statement. A state judge tossed the suit—which argued that the state’s review of the project didn’t fully account for its possible effects on traffic, security and open space—in January. The appeal ultimately aims to make…
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and 25 co-plaintiffs are appealing a judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit over Atlantic Yards’ environmental impact statement. A state judge tossed the suit—which argued that the state’s review of the project didn’t fully account for its possible effects on traffic, security and open space—in January. The appeal ultimately aims to make the state conduct a new environmental impact review study for the development. Atlantic Yards Report says oral arguments will be held in September.
Atlantic Yards Opponents File Appeal [NY Sun]
Appeal Filed in Case Challenging AY Environmental Review [AY Report]
Atlantic Yards Litigation Tradition Continues: New Appeal Filed [Curbed]
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I care very deeply about the $2 billion Ratner’s bilking us for. Those in support of this . . . debacle are free to use their own money to try and finance the arena, but seem not to want to.
This project is doomed. Even if the attempt to get an accurate environmental impact study done fails, the subsidies won’t come through. $500 mil of our money just to build Ratner an arena? Any pols out there want to sign the tax increase to come up with that figure, let alone the increases that will be needed to come up with the full $2 billion?
Aint happening.
10:21
You don’t know what you are talking about.
1) The Atlantic Yards area has never been exclusively a residential neighborhood.
2) The project is one of the largest housing developments in the history of New York City. It is and always has been about housing.
3) Affordable housing is still very much a part of the project.
I’m with 10:21 on this one. Sorry Dave, respectfully disagree.
And attacking DDDB with claims of its hypocrisy and “not caring about the community AT ALL” is childish and not well thought out. It’s the adult equivalent of shouting “I know you are but what am I???” with fingers stuck in ears.
It seems to me that all the passionate fighters, on both sides, care deeply. They just disagree equally deeply.
Polemicist once again is right on point. Except that I would go one step further in that, DDDB have no concern for the community at all. Goldstein and his wife live in the West Village now, and this entire fiasco is an exercise in grand stading…at the expense of the future of Brooklyn.
Go DDDB. I do continue to care. Stall this baby as long as possible and maybe it will just go away for good, and a better project can take its place. There a many ways to increase the housing supply in Brooklyn. An arena and office space with all that traffic and crap in the middle of residential neighborhoods is not required to increase housing. This project was never really about more housing in the first place. (notice how affordable housing was the first casualty?)
FG resident (and, No, Bertha, I do not own a brownstone)
Sorry 10:13…I’m with Polemicist on this one. There’s no indication that you have either a clue or an arguement.
Polemicist once againt proves to us how he 1) has no clue; 2) is willing to resort to fancy word usage to cloak his cluelessness.
“Appellants-Petitioners-Plaintiffs (hereinafter “Appellants”) respectfully submit this brief in support of their appeal the January 11, 2008 Decision and Order by Justice Madden in the Court below . . .”
not a good sign when an important appeal brief has a word missing in the very first sentence.
DDDB once againt proves to us how they 1) have no concern for the greater good of New York City in terms of increasing housing supply; 2) are willing to resort to pharisaic legal maneuvering that perverts the concept of justice and 3) really have no concern for the environment as high density development is the solution to virtually every environmental problem that faces the city, nation, and planet.
In short, DDDB has demonstrated they lack any and all credibility or ethical integrity. They have one goal: to preserve their insular community at all costs. Hypocrisy means nothing to them as this latest lawsuit makes clear.