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
good luck supporting this behemoth with nothing but bullying opponents as your platform. it figures. you got no facts and only corruption and lies on your side. the facts don’t lie.
RE: 1:27
Well said.
AY opponents are shockingly removed from reality. It’s frightening to think they might believe their own rhetoric.
Great parody, chicken little. You really captured the hysteria so typical of AY opponents. IMO, one of the main reasons that they have failed so miserably is their heavy reliance on trying to garner support by attempting to instill fear in people. Specifically, fear of:
*Traffic
*Sewage
*Shadows
*Heat from reflected sunlight
*Glare from reflected sunlight
*Terrorism
*Pollution
*Rising asthma rates
*Skyrocketing rents and property values
*Plummeting rents and property values
*Loud, vomiting basketball fans
*Obstructed views
*Lack of parking
*Parking lots
*Construction
*Displacement
Or fear that:
*Ratner will rely on section-8 tenants after failing to attract enough yuppies to fill his rental units
*All of the trees on Carlton Avenue will be removed for street-widening.
*Prospect Heights will become a ghost town if demolition precedes court victories
*McDonald’s, Chuck E. Cheese, and other national chains will soon arrive in droves to destroy the “hometown†character of Brooklyn
*Your political representatives are corrupt
*This is just the beginning and more large-scale development will come
*Your home will be the next in line to be seized by some greedy developer
Fortunately, all of this drama has achieved nothing in the arena of real life.
sorry I meant dodos
Now that I am free to express my personal opinion, I’d like to go on record as thinking the project is to big and the public process a sham. Sorry about that … a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.
it’s funny, all the pro AY people do is cry cry cry all day long, posting their whiney posts about nothing substantial. what a bunch of cry babies!!
Mr. Little,
While you are obviously exaggerating there are many grains or truth in your post and that is why people have been fighting for a scaled back project. The Extell project would achieve many of the same goals without stressing the environment and neighborhoods around the railroad yards. There is no reason we have to have the highest density development in the USA in an area that is already a traffic nightmare. There is no reason that our government turn over millions of dollars (our money) so that FCR can make a huge profit. Why don’t you discuss some of these issues – you would bring much more to this forum.
if all we have are chicken littles according to the ostriches then we’ll all end up do-dos.
Chicken Little, aka, Dan Goldstein of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
Chicken Little, aka, The Brooklyn Paper.
Chicken Little, aka, Letitia James.
Chicken Little, aka, Pat Hagan.
Chicken Little, aka, Jon Brownstoner.