Hearing for Lingering Atlantic Yards Case
Atlantic Yards Report has a lengthy piece on yesterday’s hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court on one of the only remaining legal challenges against the mega-project. The main issue yesterday, according to AY Report: “A lawyer for the community coalition BrooklynSpeaks assailed a ‘cover up’ by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) over the legitimacy of…
Atlantic Yards Report has a lengthy piece on yesterday’s hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court on one of the only remaining legal challenges against the mega-project. The main issue yesterday, according to AY Report: “A lawyer for the community coalition BrooklynSpeaks assailed a ‘cover up’ by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) over the legitimacy of the ESDC’s response to a court order requiring it to explain why it didn’t need issue a Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement to study the impact of a potential 25-year buildout.” After hearing from lawyers representing the community groups and the ESDC and Forest City Ratner, the judge “heard a request for a stay on Atlantic Yards construction—a request with the provision that ongoing arena construction could continue—but did not indicate when she’d rule.”
Inconclusive Hearing Over AY Timetable Impacts [AY Report]
Photo from AtlanticYards.com
I agree with Scott: nice shot of the construction. Brooklyn almost looks like a European city in this photo.
UGH! – This whole AY thing is like a bad relationship where the couple can’t just bring themselves to give up and move on.
At this point I think anyone normal just wants the damn thing to be built so we can finally put it behind us and know how our neighborhood will be affected.
You know what is so good about the above picture….
It shows what an absolutely brilliant location AY is for an arena
if there should be any fighting, it should be about the public funding but if that cant be yanked, let’s build the fucker and move on.
bring forth the stadium and the nets. I love the knicks but them tics (with the new 49% hike) is definitively out of my price range
At least the people against Atlantic yards started opposing it way back when it was just being planned unlike the PPW bike lane opponents.
Up two-thirds since August Dave? And what is the value relative to peak?
I will be surprised if a judge issues a stay. My prediction: she splits the difference and writes an opinion stating, ‘FCRC and ESDC are full of s#it,’ but the project may continue. Where there’s smoke, there is pyrrhic victory.
And please: FCRC has lied since Day 1. How anyone can believe the original project timeline was ever legitimate, or can buy the developer’s spin that the delay was due to the lawsuits, defies logic. I mean, in a project that called for the use of eminent domain, lawsuits were 100% predictable and FCRC had to have known that.
Dear senores jackal and hipster –
The project will suck because of the way it was poorly planned, not because anybody in the community opposed it.
Sincerely,
Architect66
FCE has been a great investment since last Fall when all this started to progress…up 67% since August.
You all know that Ratner and the ESDC are full of shit.
A generation to complete this?
What horseshit!
Wow an arena for a two-bit team.
Enjoy the popcorn, lechacal.