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]
sorry 1:44, but i don’t agree that the people who bought around that area are the real losers here. most people who have bought in that neighborhood have spent 500K and up for a place and they’ll be just fine.
if you want to worry about people, worry about somebody worthy; i don’t think the millionaires you are referring to need our pity.
they can move, if they choose to.
dodger, I agree…let’s raise the monarchy; or even better, a dictatorship.
I will not take the bait of the provocateur poster, it’s too asisine, but I will say that real dysfunction and nuttiness is often found at the city’s community boards. Far from being the sober, informed, jury of citizens that the law envisioned, it has become a dumbed-down waste of time for the most part. The city needs a new system of planning review that actually works.
Velmanette Montgomery also stood against the project.
one minor correction John, Latisha James has courageously fought against this debacle from day one. There might be others but she has had the leadership courage and integrity to question while others pandered like puppets.
Call me oldfashioned but I believe the borough president serves brooklyn, not just Ratner. We have enough moral and fiscal corruption at the national level. Marty sold us out. Massive development is not good for Brooklyn. Rational development might be – but no politician had the balls to stand up to fight for an appropriately sized development plan. Now we all pay the price.
I truly pity the poor folks that sunk their savings into homes near this debacle. We’ll all suffer from increased congestion, pollution and noise, but owning a house near this is going to be hard on a lot of people.
Call me oldfashioned but I believe the borough president serves brooklyn, not just Ratner. We have enough moral and fiscal corruption at the national level. Marty sold us out. Massive development is not good for Brooklyn. Rational development might be – but no politician had the balls to stand up to fight for an appropriately sized development plan. Now we all pay the price.
I truly pity the poor folks that sunk their savings into homes near this debacle. We’ll all suffer from increased congestion, pollution and noise, but owning a house near this is going to be hard on a lot of people.
11:34 Here,
Brooklyn didn’t support the Dodgers? Talk about revisonist history!
it isn’t the AY opponent(s) that are making the “predictions”. It’s one singular, individual citizens. Leave the sensationalism to me (okay); you guys should know better by now than to dabble in hyperbole.
Don’t ascribe my nuttiness to DDDB, NoLandGrab or any other entity. It’s just a lone citizen voicing his opinions. Now whether they are true or not, only time will tell.