BREAKING: Judge Backs Eminent Domain Seizure at Yards
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that State Supreme Court Justice Abraham Gerges this morning ruled against property owners in the footprint of the Barclays Center, paving the way for Forest City Ratner to begin construction on the controversial arena. In one fell swoop, the judge rejected 14 claims by the owners as being meritless. The…
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that State Supreme Court Justice Abraham Gerges this morning ruled against property owners in the footprint of the Barclays Center, paving the way for Forest City Ratner to begin construction on the controversial arena. In one fell swoop, the judge rejected 14 claims by the owners as being meritless. The properties affected by the ruling include the home of Develop Don’t Destroy leader Daniel Goldstein, above.
Judge Rules Against Yards Property Owners [Brooklyn Paper]
mcarmbk2010, the bums and drunks wont quite make it over to my pad. I’m sure they’ll stop off on Fulton or maybe make it as far as Dekalb, but no further, lol.
As for traffic, it’ already a fact of life that the intersection is stuffed with cars 24/7. Additional traffic on game day will work itself out. I’ll be walking anyway.
I’m glad the guy had his days in court, and had he won I couldve lived with that too, but he didnt. so lets get this thing up and watch some basketball already!
What exactly is Ratner destorying? Some abandoned train yards, sub par housing and a decent bar. I have no feelings one way or another on Ratner, but I know as someone that looking to buy in the area, I’d much rather live near what he is building than what is currently there.
“when it comes to AY you have a curious sense of ethics… my gut tells me that Ratner is a crook, through and through.. with the new accusations coming out every day about sectors of the new york financial industry and government it should come as no surprise.”
When your evidence is more concrete than a “gut feeling” – please post it immediately.
As for the rest of your diatribe I’ll just repost a bit of your post – I think it very effectivly demonstrates that you are viewing Ratner and AY in a decidedly irrational and hyperbolic way:
“everything ratner has done has destroyed the fabric of the borough. ”
If there was no question as to the law, it never would have gone before a judge. Each side presents an interpretation of the law for judges to decide.
Once again- my comment was sarcastic- if i were going to accuse him of taking a bribe I would have said exactly that but you just can’t seem to wrap you mind around anything but trying to score gotcha points. As ofr speculating- nothing wrong with that. People in positions of power have to be held accountable. Would that we never had cause to speculate about pols and their appointees but considering everything we’ve seen, we’d be fools to never question. Why you seem so bent out of shape is very telling. Let it go already.
And again- what makes you think your ethics are so much better? You can accept the bad deal the MTA made? Or that the ESDC didn’t follow proper procedure in order to help Ratner? How ethical is it to give one person’s property to another for the sake of private development? Yet you’re calling me unethical. Nice work if you can get it.
Ratner is giving nothing back to the community – he destroying a community – as he is doing in yonkers/ ridge hill – if by now you don’t see that the man is crook I don’t know what to say.
when it is used to hand over to a private developer Eminent domain is WRONG period. It is stealing and no ETHICAL person would do it, but Ratner is not ethical.
As I said the biggest story here is that Ratner hasn’t been indicted. I am looking forward to the day is – I hold out the hope there is some honest whistle blower that will shed light on this.
then MY ETHICS say – its wrong – and I’ll say so
when it comes to AY you have a curious sense of ethics… my gut tells me that Ratner is a crook, through and through.. with the new accusations coming out every day about sectors of the new york financial industry and government it should come as no surprise.
The MTA recongnized this and took the bid that actually would be feasible
oh come you COULDN’T be serious.
someone had bid $1 Billion dollars for the land but then couldnt actually afford to build anything?
Are you saying it is ‘impossible’ to build over the yards w/out public money? Are you saying there is no firm that could do this? and if it is so infeasible, then why get the cash strapped government involved? MEtrotech has been a loss for the city revenue wise, and in terms of brooklyn astheitics it goes without saying that everything ratner has done has destroyed the fabric of the borough. He simply does not care about anything but money.
“Since you don’t know me, how would you know what is or is not personal for me? You don’t.”
Not personal to you – personal to the Judge – I dont think it is fair to publicly accuse someone of being corrupt with ZERO evidence, not for any other reason then because that “judge” is a PERSON – a human being – one who actually couldnt respond if he wanted too.
Again Abe will be fine, but it doesnt make it right.
very well indeed, actually but thanks for checking in. had a bit of a headache after the usa loss to canada, but it actually had me thinking and cheering another borough boosting idea. maybe the devils will move over and join the nets when their lease is up.
look you are awful quick with the insult today, but i understand you’re quite defensive. whatevs. i saw your lame defense of your, in my mind harmless, accusation of graft and couldn’t resist a barb.
on the other hand, if you were actually involved — as you hint — perhaps you could point to real data or a resource that evaluated in detail the real alternatives.
i have to say on the face of it: a) appraisals mean shite, trust me, i’ve seen a million of ’em totally divorced from reality (like some of our fave posters here), so that can’t be the starting point, b) 100 mio or whatever does not add up to a hill of beans next to *ability to complete* a mega-billions project. who can afford to risk a quarter built arena in that location.
and the crowd screeching sweetheart deal/ he’s got nothing at risk — this is a joke, right?
To the people worrying about traffic and drunks ‘pissing’ in their yards, I heard the same complaints about AA Center in Dallas. 8 years later, they are still nothing more than scare tactics. Simply put, this is great for the area over all, and assuming they build out their plan as shown, will help elevate property values over the long run.
As for them handing ‘our’ money to a billionaire, at least he is giving it something back to the community instead of the nothing we get from legions of corrupt officials and corrupt government programs that give most of us absolutely nothing in return.