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]
[sound of delusional crickets]
If being off meds makes one more lucid, then so be it!
12:07, the man blocking African-Americans from getting an education was a Democrat, while the one who ensured their access was a Republican.
I think that the group did a nice job cleaning this area, which was filthy LONG BEFORE Ratner entered the picture. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that trash had been there for over a decade.
This, of course, will do nothing to advance their legal case. Blight means far more than trash. But at least Ratner’s crew will have that much less work to do once opponents’ legal cases are dismissed and construction picks up speed.
11:57 is off his meds again.
50 years ago in Little Rock: Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used his state’s national guard to stop African Americans from attending Central High School. President Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division in to protect the African American students and enforce the court order desegregating the high school.
Pop Quiz: Which one was a Democrat, which one was a Republican?
I certainly don’t know why any poor people would vote for democrats. They ruled this country for 40 years and did nothing but create a permanent underclass of epic proportions all to ensure they receive substantial votes.
The poor have been pawns, and by every measure, their lives are worse off today than ever before. No group has been harder hit than African Americans who are now the joke of the civilized world.
So Ratner gets subsidies. It certainly will be far more beneficial than the subsidies given to the supposed poor over the past half century.
The entire political system is corrupt – but anyone who thinks the Democrats have the answer or have done anything beneficial in this country are deluding themselves. Beginning with thrusting us into World War I, the creation of the FBI, CIA, and Federal Reserve, they have worked endlessly to impoverish our nation, take away our rights, and wage nearly relentless war from World War I through Vietnam. Bush sucks, but your statement reeks of the kind of propaganda foisted on the people in universities run by liberals.
“It’s like poor people voting for Bush because they think he represents their interests.”
Is it REALLY like that “HONEY”??
I don’t think so.
Making that comparison just shows how insane you really are.
11:15
Oh Honey, give me a break — of course he is responsible for his property. We certainly get tickets if our sidewalk is not cleaned up — why should he get a pass. And don’t forget, he’s getting govt subsidies from all of us because of the case that the area is blighted. How can you be so blind to the unfairness of the issues? It’s like poor people voting for Bush because they think he represents their interests.
Disgusted.
Can Deb Goldstein come and clean my block. Littered in Fort Greene.
i love how everyone wants to blame ratner for everything. is he responsible for the war in iraq also??
i’m not saying he’s the greatest dude in the world, but the NY Times building is turning out ok with some nice retail coming in.
everyone needs to clean up their street. i live on a prime north slope block and there are weeds growing 3 feet high like those above in front of a couple houses on the block. i wish they’d chop them down but the only thing i can do is pick up some of the trash that has collected in said weeds when i walk by.
everyone needs to chip in and start doing a little something instead of blaming one man for the demise of brooklyn.