ESDC Certifies Yards Environmental Report
As expected, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) Board of Directors certified the Atlantic Yards Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) at their meeting yesterday. While the ESDC pointed to cutbacks in the number of apartments and the addition of a school to the plan as evidence of some original thought, critics called the move “a…
As expected, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) Board of Directors certified the Atlantic Yards Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) at their meeting yesterday. While the ESDC pointed to cutbacks in the number of apartments and the addition of a school to the plan as evidence of some original thought, critics called the move “a rubber stamp.” So, what now? The Board must wait at least ten days Final EIS as well as the associated General Project Plan and the Eminent Domain Procedure Law findings. The last requirement after that is a unanimous vote from the state Public Authorities Control Board (PACB), which is controlled by the Governor, the Assembly Speaker, and Senate Majority Leader. The big question here is whether Pataki will get a chance to sign off on the deal before he leaves office or whether Eliot Spitzer may get to be involved. For a dissection of yesterday’s certification, check out Norman Oder’s Atlantic Yards Report.
Final EIS Coming Today [AY Report]
Atlantic Yards Myth #1 [AY Report]
Atlantic Yards Myth #2 [AY Report]
Main Lawn Grows to 1/3 Acre [AY Report]
Office Jobs Fall from 10K to 375 [AY Report]
FEIS defends Atlantic Yards [AY Report]
Miss Brooklyn Would Dwarf W’burgh Bank [AY Report]
Final Environmental Impact Study Released [WNYC]
The Carlyle Group is headquartered in Washington, DC, Moron #2!
The Nets are in first place, Moron!
I can’t believe there are actually clowns on this website advocating for, “instant gentrification.” You are obviously not a member of any community in Brooklyn who is involved with your neighborhood or you would not throw around such insulting terminology. Or perhaps you were joking. Is it necessarily a good thing for property values to go up for some rich UES property company called the Carlyle Group at the expense of people who don’t want their rents to rise, who want decent places to shop for their families, not just more fancy cafes taking over their local storefronts and moving local businesses out. And get real, the AY proposal isn’t going to put more cops on the street, or improve schools anywhere. Certainly it won’t help any areas outside of its environs. They are creating full on divisions with their architecture and lack of public access to their so called, “open spaces.” Do your homework before you preach to us about what our neighborhoods need or want. And don’t think for once that Brooklynites aren’t united about these issues. We are. To suggest otherwise is to lie. And that’s what ACORN has been doing and what BUILD has been doing. No others. Don’t believe the hype. It will not be built here because it will do great harm to the existing neighborhoods near and far from it. Our communities need jobs and they need affordable housing. The Ratner proposal doesn’t deliver on either front.
Dream on. The Nets are horrible. Nobody is going to pay to see them. Jason Kidd is a washed up joke. Kids won’t be able to afford to pay to see any of the games, so they can choose to/or not to watch them on tv — same as it is now. And does anybody watch this team? Nope. The only difference I guess is that the kids in the surrounding areas will have to stay indoors and watch tv more because they won’t have any parkland to play on, or safe streets to cross to get to the currently existing (soon to be massively overcrowded and incredibly all-day shady) parkland and many more children will be suffering from asthma in our neighborhoods so they won’t get to go outside much to play either because of all the pollution from the traffic. So if fat kids, who want to follow in the overeating and lying about loving the Nets, footsteps of our soon-to-be-unemployed-borough president are what we want for the next gen of Brooklynites I say, “bring it on!”
Bring on the Brooklyn Nets!!! Yahoo!! I can’t wait to get season tickets!! The place will be sold out for decades. Since the proposed arena will be located 10 minutes from Wall Street, every Wall Street firm is lining up for first crack at box seats and corporate suites. What an awesome convenience to have a Brooklyn sport franchise so close to the financial capital of the world.
As a native Brooklynite, I look forward to walking a few blocks with my kids to catch the game. I seriously hope that the Devils relocate to Brooklyn too. Why not? You’re going to have a huge and dedicated fan base, great media focus plus the Brooklyn name that resonates internationally. Every NBA and NHL owner would love to have a team in Brooklyn because it’s a given fact that in a few years the franchise will be one of the most valuable assets in all of sports. After next season the Nets are planning a massive marketing push in Brooklyn and New York. Just think about it; billboards of Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson…throughout downtown Brooklyn and kids from Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, etc., all adorned in their favorite player’s team jersey. The energy, excitement and anticipation will be through the roof!! The Nets will not only assist in promoting economic development downtown, the team will go along way in bringing the borough together in ways not seen since the days before “dem bums” left Brooklyn for the west coast over fifty years ago.
fat scum
innapropriate or not, this thing Will get built…brooklyn will survive…life goes on…why not focus all that energy on something more productive…this is NYC, you cant stop big developement by big money…This city stopped putting the needs of the little guy first a long, long time ago. I’d be happy just with a new bike lane some day.
Whhhaaaaggghhhhh!!! 🙁
This conversation is making me so depressed. I moved to Brooklyn fifteen years ago to get away from the noise and density and madness and lack of light in Manhattan. Now it’s coming here–a disgusting stadium, completely with fast food chain hell, three blocks from my home. I’m already imagining the litter and drunken revelers on my street. . . .