Atlantic Yards Renter Relocation Lawsuit Tossed
A lawsuit challenging the legality of the ESDC’s relocation plan for 13 renters in the Atlantic Yards footprint was tossed out of state appellate court on Friday. Twelve of the renters live in rent-stabilized units, and their chief argument was that the ESDC had not formulated a feasible plan for helping them find comparable affordable…
A lawsuit challenging the legality of the ESDC’s relocation plan for 13 renters in the Atlantic Yards footprint was tossed out of state appellate court on Friday. Twelve of the renters live in rent-stabilized units, and their chief argument was that the ESDC had not formulated a feasible plan for helping them find comparable affordable housing. The decision, which Atlantic Yards Report reprints here, says the ESDC has indeed come up with a realistic plan for relocating the tenants. Other anti-AY legal challenges are still awaiting their day in court: Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn has two outstanding lawsuits challenging the project’s proposed use of eminent domain and its environmental review.
Cout Evicts Residents’ Suit Vs. Atlantic Yards [NY Post]
Appeals Ruling a Win for Atlantic Yards Developer [NY Daily News]
State Appellate Court Dismisses Renters’ Case [AY Report]
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Actually, it seems that doubling the dosage might be warranted.
“I really wish he would die. I really do.”
Next time, break the tablets IN HALF.
The only thing about this AY projects is the architect FCR chose to head it up. Frank Gehry? Are you kidding, he designs the ugliest shit ever. I really wish he would die. I really do. He has single handily destroyed many cities and communities. With all the people that dislike his work and the degree to which he brutalistically invades neighborhoods with crapatecture, he is still around.
There are plenty of hometown architects who would be a job 10,000 times better.
I’m for the overall project, I’m just pissed that it’s Frank Gehry doing the designing.
Atlantic Yards will be worthless once Atlantic Yards is built…
You people are never happy. If they close the streets on game day, you’ll whine about it, but if the the streets are lefot open, you’ll claim that a terrorist attack will occur.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Keep it coming, because that sort of approach has failed you time and again.
I’m especialyl looking forward to game nights when they close the surrounding streets as well!
$2 billion of taxpayers money for this. We could’ve bought the Nets several times over for what we paid Ratner to move them across the river.
Wonder how much more his team is worth now that we’re building them a new stadium.
once again, as someone opposed to the Atlantic Yards plan, i am not opposed to development over the open Vanderbilt Yard of the MTA LIRR.
what i am opposed to is:
– a process that circumvents any local input, oversight or control;
– abuse of eminent domain;
– out-of-scale, super-dense development that will overwhelm already overtaxed infrastructure;
– sweetheart deals that give 100s of millions of public funds to a billioinaire developer
as someone who lives within a block of the railyard, i would love to have something *sensible, reasonable and responsible* built over the tracks. in fact, when i moved here, i was looking forward to development over the Vanderbilt Yard. is Ratner’s Atlantic Yards the best option? could the city have gotten a better deal, more bang for its buck?
so far, the whole Atlantic Yards process has not been sensible, reasonable nor responsible and i fear that we will all pay the price for decades to come.
Pretty much. They need to find another issue of course because their lives are empty without one.
The losing streak continues. The remaining lawsuits will surely suffer the same fate. AY opponents are about as effective at community organizing as the Miami Dolphins are at winning football games.
D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!