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]
“I repeat, the STADIUM should be relocated to areas such as Coney Island with the added perk that developers build more basketball courts in playgrounds and perhaps fund community workshops on “How to Break into the Music Industry.” These are real and beneficial programs for economically and disenfranchised people living on the outskirt of Brooklyn.”
Are you serious?!?!?
RD, no respect for age and experience? you’re a troll. Let it be said that I for one respect age, experience, democracy and ethics in government. Take your ageism elsewhere.
RD- They aren’t kidding- youth is wasted on the young. As in “young and dumb”. Maybe when you’ve spent 20 years of your life devoted to the community and have accomplished 1/10th as much in your lifetime, you can open your mouth and spout the sheer stupidity you have. All the while you pray to live long enough to become a geriatric case. In fact I think age and experience would be wasted on you too. When you don’t have brains, you can’t grow em. But then again you sound too shallow to understand what I’m saying anyway.
The saddest thing about this whole deal is that CB6 member Jerry Armer and a few of these other geriatric cases are being made out to be martyrs.
It was long past time for some of these old gobstoppers to be gone from the Community Board.
20+ years is enough. Thank you, Marty. How about another purge next year.
I hear that the Bronx still affordable and it almost still looks the same. Go have fun in the Bronx while it last. That is, if you really want to live in NYC.
Thanks 5:17. The pro-AYers, whether paid PR firms or not, always try to paint people who try and downsize AY as being anti-development – very Karl Rovian. The truth is that everyone is pro development, but a lot of us want development that’s good for the developer AND Brooklyn, not just the developer.
Usually developers submit an orverreaching plan. The community and community leaders then develop a compromise plan based on both developer profit and community need. In the case of AY, the second part of this process never happened.
Whether due to political cowardice, incompetence, or corruption the simple truth is that a stadium the size of Madison Square Garden (with the same 200+ events a year) is being built alongside 6,000 apartments (more than Battery Park City) AND several hundred thousand square feet of retail space right on our doorstep. And all of this is happening without any real input from the community.
15 years of construction, millions of tons of materials all being trucked through our neighborhoods 24 hours a day. We’re all going to suffer through the noise, pollution and congestion for as long as we live in Brooklyn.
Am I a NIMBY? No. I just want development that benefits Brooklyn. In a democracy it shouldn’t be too much to ask.
seriously.
if you don’t like the new brooklyn, go set up shop in queens. thats the great thing about america. you can move wherever the hell you want.
brooklyn is losing its industrial jobs and ay and coney island is one of primary things that will bring some back.
unless you can create another new 5000 new jobs for those lost at domino sugar factory, red hook container port, etc, you should shut the eff up.
Ok so now that Brooklyn is going to be too over crowded and whatever your fears are, can you NIMBYs move out of Brooklyn already!!!
“What all you NIMBYs want is to keep everything as it was (on the day you decided you love Brooklyn). ”
Now if that isn’t hyperbole and spin-doctoring at it’s finest, then I don’t know what. Keep spinning the lies that we’re all anti-development, etc. The one thing that unites all NIMBYs is that we’re against Atlantic Yards in its current inception and we’re keeping our fingers crossed that a politician or group of law-makers with significant clout will have the courage to withstand bribery and corruption. And, before you begin your claim that I’m a conspiracy theorist, remember, it is you who throughout several threads on this blog, that suggested that all Bruce has to do to handle each is every road-block that pops up is to ‘pay’ the victims off. You even said at one point, sarcastically, no doubt, that Bruce has lowered the payments that he gives you per posting.
Start looking for a new gig.