ESDC Continues To Fumble the Atlantic Yards Ball
Since making a set of five promises back in May, State officials are batting a meager .200 in their efforts to step up oversight of the Atlantic Yards project, according to The Daily News. While the Empire State Development Corp. claims that an intergovernmental group has met three times (one of the promises), it has…
Since making a set of five promises back in May, State officials are batting a meager .200 in their efforts to step up oversight of the Atlantic Yards project, according to The Daily News. While the Empire State Development Corp. claims that an intergovernmental group has met three times (one of the promises), it has failed to follow through on the other four it made in the wake of the parapet collapse at Ward’s Bakery: Appointing an ombudsman; appointing a construction liaison; creating a group to oversee transportation issues; holding regular group meetings with elected officials. “This basically says that the Spitzer administration, just like the Pataki administration, is giving us empty promises when it comes to transparency, oversight and accountability,” said Councilwoman Letitia James. Is anyone really surprised?
Atlantic Yards Oversight Under Scope [NY Daily News]
For Atlantic Yards, Someone to Watch Over [Brownstoner]
Photo of Ward’s Bakery by Tracy Collins
And displacing minority renters is a good thing? And what sort of goods and services are you looking for that Fort Greene/Park Slope/Prospect Heights don’t already have?
And judging from current Prospect Heights sale and rental prices, gentrification already has come east of Flatbush — even all the way to Crown Heights.
And putting that many people on top of each other anywhere will increase, not reduce, crime — think road rage traffic incidents, sports fan hooligans, domestic violence, etc. Yes, even the rich commit crimes.
And let’s not forget the white collar crimes of embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion — beginning with FCR itself…
gives Brooklyn the professional sport franchise and arena residents so desperately grave (sic) and desire.
Is that Mr. Stuckey again?
You said it all, 6:28.
AY is “desperately grave”.
AY will produce instant gentrification east of Flatbush Avenue, drive up property prices, displace minority renters, result in the introduction of new amenities, goods and services to the community, reduce crime, improve schools and, most importantly, gives Brooklyn the professional sport franchise and arena residents so desperately grave and desire. I’m very excited about AY, downtown and brownstone Brooklyn overall.
I fully expect my $2M brownstone to be worth $4M by 2020 when AY is finally completed. In the meantime, I’ll just continue to enjoy my home and great neighborhood until I’m ready to retire, sell and move to the Caribbean.
please do allow me to amend my post.
i’ve been here for 20 years. i lived, for a short time, with my grandparents, in the bronx, in my first decade of life.
that was the late ’60’s, early ’70s.
i loved this town. that’s my perspective.
bloomberg’s NY sucks; as did rudy’s NY.
first the law and order, then the capitalist takeover.
facism, friends. that’s how it’s done.
oh, hell, maybe north carolina. maybe nw connecticut. maybe sanfran. just anywhere, anywhere but here.
you see, when people like myself, and people like my friends, leave the town that they absolutely worshipped, things are going down.
ah, hell, let walmart come in. big box the fuck out of this whole town. decorate the brooklyn bridge with jimmy choo. put a huge replica of trump’s toupee over the empire state building. sell air rights to anybody who wants ’em over every single significant building in the town.
get it over with. the death watch has been on too long. let it go.
fuck all of you. i’m out of here.
enjoy the theme park for all it’s worth.
To 1:27
As a die hard opponent here are my views-
*Ratner will rely on section-8 tenants after failing to attract enough yuppies to fill his rental units – Are you kidding- I lived here when neighborhood people used to go into abandoned buildings to throw out the mattresses the drug addicts used – so you think Section 8 is scary? It is the loss of the truly integrated nature of the neighborhood that we don’t like. Also I don’t believe affordible housing will be built there.
*All of the trees on Carlton Avenue will be removed for street-widening. The corrupt power of FCR could make this a reality.
*Prospect Heights will become a ghost town if demolition precedes court victories – no but buildings will be torn down to make parking garages this could happen with AY and congestion pricing.
*McDonald’s, Chuck E. Cheese, and other national chains will soon arrive in droves to destroy the “hometown†character of Brooklyn – if I wanted fast food chains I could live in the suburbs – I prefer small independently owned restaurants that have some character
*Your political representatives are corrupt – there seems to be some merit in this
*This is just the beginning and more large-scale development will come – no, I think they are overbuilding and there will be a crash- I lived through real estate crashes in the 80’s and 90’s and don’t believe the business cycle has been abolished.
*Your home will be the next in line to be seized by some greedy developer
This is a fear of anyone who lives in a house or apartment as has been demonstated.
Ratner should ED this website.
just like i said, only platform is to bully opponents!!
what a bunch of losers!
Ah, 3:27, you are so typical. You can think of nothing substantive to say, so you spew angry generalities.
D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!