Marty Axes CB6 Members Who Opposed AY Project
In a move likely to cloud his legacy as the Brooklyn’s biggest professional cheerleader, Borough President Marty Markowitz purged Community Board 6 yesterday of nine members, apparently as retribution for having voted against the proposed plan for the Atlantic Yards project back in September 2006. I’m rather disappointed. I think that it could have been…
In a move likely to cloud his legacy as the Brooklyn’s biggest professional cheerleader, Borough President Marty Markowitz purged Community Board 6 yesterday of nine members, apparently as retribution for having voted against the proposed plan for the Atlantic Yards project back in September 2006. I’m rather disappointed. I think that it could have been handled better and I think that I will continue to work for my community and the greater good of the community through the Community Board, Jerry Armer, who had served on CB6 for more than two decades, told the NY Observer. What we were doing was giving the community a voice and reflecting the community. Today on the Atlantic Yard Report, Norman Oder notes that Armer and other dismissed members purposefully did not align themselves with the most vocal opponents of the project. Instead, Oder notes, he “participated in numerous meetings of the Brooklyn Borough Board Atlantic Yards Committee, cordially raising some worthy questions…He spoke courteously, even ponderously, in testimony to the Empire State Development Corporation.” What an embarrassment.
Project’s Foes Shown Door in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Markowitz Purges Community Board 6 [NY Observer]
The Ironies of the CB 6 Purge [AY Report]
Arena Foes Slam Dunked [NY Post]
CB6 Letter, 9/29/06 [DDDB]
(:>, he who laughs last laughs best.
Basketball players and their families and friends don’t live in Park Slope? Why not?
11:34 That’s a bit dramatic. Don’t you think?
Ok so I think is time for the loosers to move out of Brooklyn. Don’t let the door hit ya! 😀
11:34, I am someone who lives in one of the neighborhoods you mentioned above, and I and none of my neighbors have any desire to have a stadium in my neighborhood. I do however have a desire to have a stadium in Park Slope so that I can be sure to throw my empty beer can on your precious sidewalks as I make my happy drunken way too and from the games.
I think people are so weird about new development in Brooklyn. It is as if they think they live in some sleepy village in the Berkshires or the Adirondaks only with subway service. Brooklyn is the the most populous boro, and if it were an independent city, it would be the fourth biggest in the country. It is not a sleepy village.
I call the syndrome Archiphobia.
10:42, you’re a moron! those locations (CI, RH, B and ENY) are indeed better because: (a)it will provide a much needed economic boost to otherwise depressed areas; (b) provide nearby residents with jobs and easy access to work and stadium events; and (c) the stadium will be located close to player’s homes, family and friends.
Lastly, its a STADIUM as it will house well over 30,000 spectators and host events on at least 300 days a year. The traffic will cripple the entire area and drunk pedestrians will run amuck and wreck havoc on our beautiful neighborhoods. We saved these neighborhoods and now Ratner and Marty are trying to destroy everything that we’ve accomplished over the past ten years. Even worst, the tall skyscrapers in AY will cast huge shadows across FG, CH and PH! Without adequate sun light, gardens, windows and planter arrangements and trees will die throughout the entire impact zone. And mark my words, the AY Effect is very very real and area homeowners will all go bankrupt as their single largest asset dwindles to zero!
I’m not directly affected by AY, but I have wondered if perhaps it would be better in some of the other neighborhoods that 10.34 mentioned, not out of NIMBYism but because those areas need economic development more so than the area currently proposed for the project. I do agree with 10.42 about the transportation issues, though.
Do you do you know why they call it “politics”? Because its political.
Anyone serving in any capacity at the pleasure of the boro pres, or the governor or the president is well aware of that. Only employees in the “civil service system” are exempt from politics and are barred from taking part in any political group or demonstration.