Barclays Center Rising
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
“TOO LONG DIDN’T READ”
Ignorance is no excuse, lechacal (although that developer is counting on it, with apparent success).
lechacal – the aristocrat! An elite winner!
Poinless discussion really – we won, you all lost. I’m Audi 5000.
Thanks lenore. Great post – poor babs was getting the brunt of it and both of you state your positions more eloquently that I ever could.
Oh little fsrq :
“frivolous” lawsuit = mischaracterization of lawsuits filed. They were heard by the courts and decided on their legal merit.
“Government waste” = meaningless paper polemic that tells more about your point of view regarding government than your knowledge of government finances.
“corrupt” = handing over the development of the whole parcel to a single developer
By the way, the people who object to the “uproar” are the same people who thought that the project should have gone forward unopposed and unreviewed by the surrounding community, presumably because they believe that aristocrats like Ratner and Markowitz know what is best.
So who is naive, stupid, or heavily medicated?
“I could go on and on, but I’d take a homeless shelter filled with mentally ill substance-abusing ex-cons in my backyard over this taxpayer-funded debacle any day.”
Enough said. You made your point what a whacko you are in only 1 sentence. Congrats.
“By Lenore792 on December 17, 2010 2:21 PM
There are plenty of Brownstoner readers who………….”
TOO LONG DIDN’T READ.
Lenore792, you’re my hero du jour! Thanks!
> why don’t landlords in surrounding neighborhoods voluntarily charge less than market to maintain the “fabric of the neighborhood”
There are a few who do in my neighborhood, thank goodness.
> If I had to work 2 jobs to get what I wanted, I would.
What if the only two jobs you could get paid minimum wage? Not because of the economy, but because you grew up poor or lower middle class, couldn’t afford college or maybe aren’t a genius so you didn’t get a scholarship, or whatever.
Have you looked at what lower-level jobs pay these days? Really pathetic. Unfortunately, we can’t all be corporate lawyers or hedge fund managers.
And maybe you always thought, “Well, as long as I pay my rent on time and don’t make a nuisance of myself, I’ll always have a place to live.”
But then one day your landlord sold the building, to Bruce Ratner in this instance. “No problem,” you think, “I’m rent stabilized; as long as I don’t default on my lease I’m safe.”
Wrong – there are two ways to refuse to renew a rent stabilized lease. One is to say you need the space for a family member (obviously N/A here). The second is to have the property seized by eminent domain.
So this is exactly what he did – Ratner bought the buildings and then had the state seize them (while paying him for it of course, and for some reason at a higher “market value” psf than that proposed to others who had their property taken away), so he could get rid of these people.
Agree with rent stabilization or not, that’s a mighty lowdown and despicable way to act.