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]
Some of those folks on the community board have served since the Civil War, Some new blood is a good thing.
Why should that diminish anyone’s legacy? On the contrary, shaking things up is what we need more of in the old boro. Marty should do it more, not less.
now that’s what i call ATLANTIC YARDS EFFECT!
Thank goodness Marty isn’t the Attorney General. Otherwise, this would constitute an Alberto Gonzales move.
I think that the articles cited that Yassky has a part in this as well.
That’s wrong. I don’t care if he has a legacy or not, I don’t care what else he’s done for the borough. It’s wrong.
And the idea that this kind of crookedness is somehow justifiable, no matter what side of the issue you’re on, is sad. I agree with corrugated. How can people tolerate this? Where do people get the idea that dishonest politicians abusing their power is ok? Just because Bill O’Reilly thinks it’s ok to bully people and lie to achieve political ends doesn’t mean that it is. Where’s your sense of decency?
Marty’s a joke. Someday a slightly bigger fish will get hungry and he’ll disappear too.
yes, that’s right, blame the NIMBY! deflect real issues. use your misdirected muscle to hide real problems! 4th avenue is not using gobs of taxpayer money to fund an irresponsible development that relys on political favors and eminent domain. keep trying though, maybe someday you’ll grow some integrity.
Not defending Markowitz. I just think people are wasting time, energy, effort on him when his office has very little power in the matter other than a cheerleader.
The power is in mayor, ESDC, Albany, etc.
These people were only helping the ones who lived in the vicinity of AY. I bet some of the board members actually do live close to AY. They don’t care for the rest of Brooklyn. They never did. So much money wasted for a stupid battle.