Final Hold-Outs Emerge At Atlantic Yards
This ‘blighted’ house at 481 Dean Street has emerged at the last minute as the final barrier to the bulldozers at Atlantic Yards. According to The Post, the Ahmed family is still living there and, despite having already accepted the standard $85,000 relocation fee Ratner was offering renters to move, refusing to budge. “They saw…
This ‘blighted’ house at 481 Dean Street has emerged at the last minute as the final barrier to the bulldozers at Atlantic Yards. According to The Post, the Ahmed family is still living there and, despite having already accepted the standard $85,000 relocation fee Ratner was offering renters to move, refusing to budge. “They saw that man got all that money last week and thought, why should they leave?” said a relative of Aisha Ahmed, whose ex-husband bought the building in 1988. Ahmed’s two children are now claiming that they should each get an additional $85,000 buyout. It turns out that neither Forest City Ratner for ESDC even knew people were still living in the house. The Post also reported that a teenager entering the house late in the day yesterday said that the issue had been resolved.
It’s only an example of trickle down economics. Ratner received gazillions of dollars in tax breaks, public funds, through eminent domain, and underpriced MTA land. It is only fair that those below should benefit, as well. Isn’t that what proponants of trickle down have been saying for years? The fatcats prosper and feast, while six degrees of separation later, the lower echelons get the scraps. What’s $85K, or even $170K, or $255K in the face of hundreds of millions? The Ahmed kids may be greedy, but they’ve had great role models to follow. This just gets better and better. NOT.
Good move, Ahmed. But on the sell-out scale, you’re still WAY behind Daniel Goldstein, who like any pro (scammer), made you and a whole bunch of other folks look like pikers.
I think this whole thing of eminent domain is terrible. This is where people live. You just cant make them move because you want the land to build a retarded arena. Gimme a break. How would Ratner like it if they bulldozed his house.
Renters or not, I hope they get ore money.
why do i have a feeling ahmed’s “children” are actually grown adults? move out on your own you stingey leeches, you dont deserve 85 K each. im so pro renters rights, but honestly this whole buyout crap for rents is absurd. it’s obviously understandable if someone owns a unit, but if they are renting in it?
*rob*
How long does it take to have tenants’ rights in NYC? I know in some states it’s like 3 days (why you never want house guests for longer than that), but I think it’s longer in NY. Doubt it would work anyway, since this is all state-owned property now and I don’t think you can squat government property. Too bad – otherwise I would love to move in a bunch of homeless people for just long enough to get them some nice money to rebuild their lives.
#ratnersux
If they went for the deal a year ago then it’s a simple case of them wanting the bird in the hand and they missed out on the two in the bush. OTOH, if others from the same deal frame got 85 per person instead of per unit, they should as well, but then again they should have been keener to check this out before agreeing to their deal.
But, as posted, it’s only her ex’s deal that can be compared to Goldstein’s. Has it been proven that anyone has actually been living there all this time and that they didn’t move in just for the renter’s payday?
jinx rob
ha dipster! brilliant minds thing alike!
*rob*
Perhaps he’s upset because he wasn’t invited to the party for losers, er, sell-outs, at Freddy’s last night.