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
AY will destroy property values throughout Brooklyn and NYC.
AY will cause immense traffic congestion that will back up traffic bumper to bumper to the Verrazano Bridge.
AY will cast huge shadows across all of downtown Brooklyn and even across the East River into Manhattan thereby killing all vegetation, plant and sea life.
AY will fail and eventually turn into the largest public housing project in New York City resulting in a sharp increase in crime, drugs and violence.
AY construction will cause serious environmental problems for everyone in the immediate vicinity and result in widespread disease, illness and death on par with the WTC.
AY will cause widespread famine in Brownsville and ENY as the mammoth complex overburdens the postal service and prevent welfare checks from being delivered to deserving communities in a timely manner.
AY will pit black vs whites and cause massive ethnic strife in Crown Heights; thousands will die.
AY is Al Qaeda’s #1 target in the world.
AY will place immense pressure on the city’s infrastructure; water will be rationed out and made available for only two hours a day.
AY will indeed cause the sky to fall.
In NJ, a judge just put the brakes on a huge development project exactly because it was a “D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L,” which meant that it violated the law. The anonymous posters who’ve been posting those words daily for years might want to rethink their strategy, lest some NY judge gets to thinking too hard about whether it’s a good (and legal) thing that a developer and the state colluded to ensure that a project was a fait accompli.
Dig it: http://tinyurl.com/2ewalb
yeah, nobody cares!
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Au contraire Mr. 11:35 -it is the most important event for Brownstone BK that has happened in the 20 years I have lived here. Those of us within a wide radius of the project will have our neighborhoods changed irrevocably by this project are interested in news about it.
LOL! Yeah Brownstoner, nobody cares, that’s why I’m yelling at you!
Brownstoner, nobody cares about AY anymore. Please stop wasting everyone’s time with another posting about this stale development project. It’s a done deal. It’s happening whether you like it or not and the public majority supports it.
I second what you said, Brownstoner, but appreciate you posting the story.
It’s amazing we were even able to find it on the web. The Daily News site has to be about the worst website of a newspaper we’ve EVER seen. Pathetic.
IMO, quite telling that the DN story ran on the first page of the Brooklyn section, not in the citywide news.