Atlantic Yards Naysayers and Yaysayers
Ratner was trying to help all these people. He doesn’t just take your property, he offers fair market value. If you’re gonna say no cuz you wanna be in the way of progress . . .” That’s one Proud Brooklynite’s take on Atlantic Yards, as dramatized by the upcoming production Brooklyn at Eye Level, a…
Ratner was trying to help all these people. He doesn’t just take your property, he offers fair market value. If you’re gonna say no cuz you wanna be in the way of progress . . .” That’s one Proud Brooklynite’s take on Atlantic Yards, as dramatized by the upcoming production Brooklyn at Eye Level, a theatrical investigation of the real estate development. No Land Grab has picked out a couple of opposing viewpoints (apparently the pro-Altantic Yards viewpoints are hard to find) represented in the piece, including this thought from Urban Planner: “I don’t see the average family in Brooklyn, particularly a low-income family, being able to function in those buildings effectively [proposed Atlantic Yards Towers]…When we worked in Bed-Stuy, on BS Restoration Corps. . . there was this woman who leaned out her window and said, ‘give us affordable housing. But make sure I can yell at my kids on the street.’ You just can’t do that in a 40-story building.”
a) i didn’t “call” the theater company anything. i did suggest it was biased, and it seems you have no quibble with that; b) from lisa’s prior posting: “The interviews will be acted out, accompanied by music and dance at the Brooklyn Lyceum in December”; and c) i never said i had a nuanced position regarding interpretive dance. i have a nuanced position on atlantic yards. and see that, i can have multiple positions on multiple issues! nuance.
now there’s some nuance: calling a respected theater company doing radical work in and with neighborhoods “interpretive dance.”
maybe people with more nuanced positions were hard for this group to find because they made no attempt to suggest that those viewpoints would be respected or represented fairly. i thought about volunteering, but i have no interest in having myself or my viewpoints about urban development in my neighborhood manipulated for the goals of interpretive dance.