Documenting the Atlantic Yards Blight Clean Up
Deb Goldstein, who organized last weekend’s community clean up of the litter and waste dotting some of the Atlantic Yards footprint, has set up a slideshow on Flickr documenting the efforts to make some of the Forest City Ratner-owned land less of a wasteland. The photos—which show overgrown weeds, glass on the street, and the…
Deb Goldstein, who organized last weekend’s community clean up of the litter and waste dotting some of the Atlantic Yards footprint, has set up a slideshow on Flickr documenting the efforts to make some of the Forest City Ratner-owned land less of a wasteland. The photos—which show overgrown weeds, glass on the street, and the bags and bags of trash the group picked up—speak for themselves. Check ’em out here.
Blight-n-After [No Land Grab]
Speaking for Deb – she was not “11:43” as someone oddly suggested and
Who I’m guessing none of you know ( but how would anyone know since everyone is named guess). And thirty years ago she was 5 so she apologizes greatly for not being able to clean up. She doesn’t want a cookie. She doesn’t start sentences with “oh honey” either. And she definitely does not make sweeping statements about “poor people.” But I guess the lesson learned here is…if shit piles up for 20-30 years, don’t dare try to change it or touch it, instead remain inactive, post on blogs and spew insults at people you don’t know… – because hey you weren’t there 20 years ago etc, etc,.
But anyway. Call her names, move on, talk about things you will never bother to see the other side of…but reading these posts, it is clear..we all need to get back no the meds.
bash away…..
The past 20 years Deb was probably throwing out her own garbage, and doing her job- not cleaning up the literal and figurative shit of the the city and States, and yes people Ratner’s from the past 20 years.
Oh..and you people are quite possibly mad that a person cleaning up a street leads to the discussion of 11th century politics!
So sick of the “where were you when…”
People can only take so much sometimes it takes 20 years just to get angry enough…okay small minds.
Bottom line…someone is giving a favor to Ratner and the neighborhood has turned to crap, because the guy drove everyone out!!!!!!!!!!
Say, 6:35, did you ever walk through the area that is now MetroTech in say, 1989? Or 1992? You would have RUN through, pal. It was rundown, and full of drug dealers, hookers and crack heads. It’s clean now and looks pleasant, and I think it’s a positive that it isn’t overrun or crowded with people. Why doesn’t it belong in Brooklyn? Because it’s not dirty and run-down? That’s ridiculous. I’m a Broklyn NATIVE, and I don’t see any reason at all why it shouldn’t belong. It’s a RELIEF to walk by there now and not have to deal with crime and dirt.
“I’d rather have dirty railyards that are part of Brooklyn…”
Thankfully, you are in the minority.
If we were smart we would dump all our garbage there and then call Freakin Geraldo in get this shit on the news. If you hate Ratner don’t clean,,DUMP.
yeah, why ARE people volunteering to pick up that guy’s trash?
if they really want to draw attention to the mess he’s made and give him the big f u at the same time, why don’t they just walk on down there, “trip” over a piece of the garbage he’s left lying around, “fall”, scream “my neck, my neck”, and call 1-800-lawyers?
i guess that would be sinking to his level, but hey. it is what it is.
Keeping to the topic at hand…
I don’t understand why people are volunteering to clean up that area. It’s Ratner’s now, he was awarded the land at great public expense and in such a way as to millions (if not billions) in profit; why can’t he clean it up? Doesn’t seem to make sense.
Yeah Metrotech is spotless… as spotless as a suburban corporate industrial park. There’s no people, no community… it doesn’t really belong in Brooklyn. When it comes to AY, I’d rather have dirty railyards that are part of Brooklyn, than a spotless condo-mall that appears to have been picked up out of the suburbs and dropped into my neighborhood (and then grown high enough to envelope my house in shadow).
In short: the example of Metrotech is why people in the community were opposed to AY in the first place.
And by the way, re:
“We, as human beings, have to step up and do what is right. Don’t wait for the government or anyone else to do it for you.”
Excellent point! So, landlords of rent-stabilized buildings, be sure to evict your tenants and screw what the government says!
Re: Katrina –
I didn’t realize that Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco were Republicans! I think that there’s plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the political coin. A report from U.S. congress notes that:
“Criticism from politicians, activists, pundits and journalists of all stripes was directed at the local and state and governments headed by Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. Nagin and Blanco were criticized for failing to implement New Orleans’ evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin was that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until 19 hours before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by that time) could not find any way out of the city.”