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]
“Barron Bruce and Lord Marty had decided to include the community in some of the discussions instead of sealing the deal in a private back room”
WHEN will you people LISTEN? Markowitz can’t make any deals – borough president and boroughs don’t mean s**t legally.
Mayor Bloomberg, whoever is sitting in Gov. chair, ESDC, other state authorities, etc make the deals — sign this or that.
Marty/boro pres is nothing other than a public relations gimick.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR ENERGY ON SOMEONE WHO DOESN”T MATTER MUCH IN THIS DEAL.
Just think what a wonderful world it would have been if Barron Bruce and Lord Marty had decided to include the community in some of the discussions instead of sealing the deal in a private back room.
Now, you wouldn’t be ‘T.I.R.E.D.’, there wouldn’t be any eminent domain or out of context buildings and you guys would all be sleeping well at nights, just like the folks over by Forte, the Oro and the Avalon.
Wouldn’t that have been a lot easier than battling the AY foes tooth and nail to the bitter end. Why do you even suppose that this will ever end? Remember, unlike Bruce, we’re not the ones with short-term memory loss.
So much time wasted bacause of these NIMBYs. This development will have been built already. So much wasted time for what? Now that I am older just imagine the nightmares when the construction of this mega project starts. I live close by so yeah I have to endure. Can’t wait till all of this is over. Maybe I can relax by then.
2:39 PM, ease up on the hyperbole. Leave it to the AY opponents. If 1:13 PM’s “predictions” have any validity then you might want to update your resume and start looking for a new job.
Bill de bla bla
lol
Both Marty and the idiot who wants to replace him (Bill de bla bla) are vindictive bigots. Their only allegiance is to big money and the scum who have it. They both forget that it was all the little people who put them into office to begin with.
I hope every one who is thinking of voting for either of these idiots, will now see them for what they really are – 2 faced, self serving scum.
RE: 10:47
Get a grip, the rezoning calls from 6-8 story buildings along an active commercial corridor- NOT an interior residential street. There are TONS of examples or building in the middle of Fort Greene that are over 6 stories.
The proposed Fulton building would have to set back after six stories so the top two stories will be harder to detect. And remember, 8 stories today is only about 80′, not like back in 1910 when 8 stories equaled about 100′.
4th Avenue and the Gowanus Redevelopment have nothing in common with the Atlantic Yards. The former are important strategies for providing housing and reviving a under-utilized avenue.
CB 6 has been an utter disappointment. They act like a bunch of spoiled children incapable of proposing a solid and realistic strategy for growth. Instead they invoke their constituents as a cover for not having a solid grasp development issues.
As far as Letitia James… Had she been more willing to capitalize on the growth in her district… she could have done much more for the working class people she porportedly represents. Instead she confirmed that the WFP is detached from reality and fairly incompetent when it comes to sustainable governing.
Thanks for the comment, 1:30, but it doesn’t change the central point. Many of the prominent Ratner opponents are just as hysterical and unjarred as your 11:34 AM post. Again, that’s a big reason why they’ve failed so miserably.