ESDC Seeks Final Evictions Today
And then there was one. It was widely reported earlier this week that Freddy’s Bar, the long-time gathering place of Atlantic Yards opponents, had made plans to relocate at the end of this month. And now, with the ESDC set to formally request eviction orders from a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge today, The Brooklyn Paper…
And then there was one. It was widely reported earlier this week that Freddy’s Bar, the long-time gathering place of Atlantic Yards opponents, had made plans to relocate at the end of this month. And now, with the ESDC set to formally request eviction orders from a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge today, The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that all of the remaining residential hold-outs except for one have cut deals to relocate. We have successfully worked to find comparable or better housing for every family in the footprint except one, said Forest City’s MaryAnne Gilmartin. Not surprisingly, the last man standing is Daniel Goldstein the founder and face of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. Based on a post on Atlantic Yards Report, however, his recalcitrance could have more to do with practicality than principle at this point: He’s still being low-balled on the value of his own apartment ($395 per square foot compared to a market average of $475 in Prospect Heights) and has only been offered apartments in two buildings so far. The final screwing in a screwed up process.
Goldstein Now, Officially, the last Yards Holdout [Brooklyn Paper]
ESDC Suggests Comparable Condos [Atlantic Yards Report]
Curtain to Fall on Last Atlantic Yards Holdouts [Crain’s]
Freddy’s Finds Amnesty in Park Slope [Brownstoner]
Snappy – the price should be just compensation – seems market value (apparently higher than what he’s being offered) would be a good way to define this.
“ENY & Bupe, do you really think DG & DDDB had the same resources as Ratner??”
Of course not. But who picked the fight? He did. He lost. I’m supposed to feel sorry for him now? Don’t make me laugh.
antidope, what would the Bronx be like without Yankee Stadium? And think before you answer, because I lived right near the Stadium for several years.
Ah! Chicken, I never said it was unreasonable or greedy! I do think however that it’s time for him to go. At what price, I don’t know, but it’s time to go.
It wasn’t exactly a fair fight. ENY & Bupe, do you really think DG & DDDB had the same resources as Ratner??
I don’t know exactly why DG is holding out, Snappy, but he might want an equivalent home for himself, his wife, and his young child. How is that unreasonable and greedy? It it really fair to say that Ratner, having finally defeated the little guy fair and square, is entitled to deny him fair compensation for the forcible taking of his property?
Pac Bell Park is a glowing example of how a blighted urban area can be totally revitalized.
Does anybody know when is the last night Freddy’s will be open? I’m gonna miss that place. Where’s it relocating?
“and cost us a project that would have been well funded and added something very interesting to the fabric of downtown Brooklyn.”
Ok…so I should totally be well versed in this by now, but what project? (I usually avoid these threads so I honestly don’t know)
eny- i’m pro stadium but it is hard to argue that they are transformative. first of all, the bronx is still waiting for their new park next to new ys. and last time i was at ys, i was hardly impressed by the state of the local economy. not saying it ruined the locale, but ay’s benefits are oversold, imo.
Yep, sign me up with ENY here. DG used every considerable maneuver even when the writing was very much on the wall – and cost us a project that would have been well funded and added something very interesting to the fabric of downtown Brooklyn.
So my sympathies (while not with developer), are not with the trust fund baby.