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]
Thank you, 2:35.
I suppose Deb wants a cookie now that she’s cleaned up the stretch that has been filthy for probably 35 years now.
Let’s get this straight, so we can then move on –
NOBODY, in terms of political parties, cares about the poor and low income people of the world. NOBODY.
Individuals care, and those individuals need to be put in positions of power, no matter what party they claim, or what race they are, age, sexual orientation. Sometimes they get there, and are able to do some good. Most of the time, they lose, or are sucked up by the machinations of power.
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.
Ah, so Republicans are the ones who truly care about black and low income people?
One word – Katrina.
Pacific Street and the surrounding blocks were even more of garbage-strewn mess in say, 1980, 1985, 1900, long before Deb and Daniel began to care so deeply. I know, because unlike those guys I was here then. It’s really very nice they cleaned the street, but let’s keep things in perspective. The garbage predates Ratner.
Also, I don’t consider my people “the joke of the civilized world.” Last time I checked, there were MANY prominent African-Americans in various fields of endeavor, and that has long been the case, even when the system was legally rigged to exclude black people from the basic rights white Americans enjoyed. Black folks are a tough group of people who have been taught by experience to persevere and succeed.
Many African Americans are indeed struggling, that’s true, but there are also many who are having success, which doesn’t make us too much different from many other racial groups, except in the eyes of racist extremists like 11:57.
[sound of homeless crickets]
why not blame the homeless people that live along pacific who dump their trash there.
or how about we blame global warming for making the grass grow so high!!
or how about god, for ever creating weeds in the first place!!!!
Here is an idea – drop all the obstructionist (but no legal basis) litigation and let Ratner start building and I am confident that the area soon will be very clean.
FYI Metrotech is spotless
exactly, 12:42
and by deb, you mean, 11:43…?
it’s funny how no one cared how dirty it was before Ratner bought the property. Where has Deb been for the last 20 years.
Oh, thanks.