AY: A Hearing on Terrorism Threat Followed by a March
Will Atlantic Yards be a terrorist target? If so, what have the state and Forest City Ratner done to ensure public safety in and around the sprawling development? Such were the questions raised by speakers yesterday at a Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn press conference held in advance of the third annual Walk Don’t Destroy rally….
Will Atlantic Yards be a terrorist target? If so, what have the state and Forest City Ratner done to ensure public safety in and around the sprawling development? Such were the questions raised by speakers yesterday at a Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn press conference held in advance of the third annual Walk Don’t Destroy rally. Atlantic Yards opponents have been making noise about the development’s possible security concerns following news that Newark’s $375 million Prudential Center arena, which is set to open in a couple of weeks, has only recently been deemed vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack. Newark officials say the arena isn’t far enough from traffic to protect it from terrorist attacks and they’re now playing catch-up—securing surrounding streets with concrete barriers and planning to close a section of one street on event nights—to guard against attacks.
Speakers yesterday said that like Newark’s arena, Forest City Ratner’s Nets arena could pose very real security threats to the development’s thousands of residential units as well as people living in surrounding communities. We’re here to call for safety, said DDDB’s Daniel Goldstein, noting that the Environmental Impact Statement for Atlantic Yards claimed a terror attack is not a reasonable worst-case scenario. Councilwoman Letitia James and Jim Vogel of the Council for Brooklyn Neighborhoods joined Goldstein in demanding a state hearing on Atlantic Yards terrorism security issues. James said the Brooklyn arena was much more of a terrorist target than the Prudential Center, and that the state and Forest City Ratner had refused to disclose to elected officials how they were planning to safeguard against attacks. And Vogel said it was imperative to avoid reactive planning: Newark’s Prudential arena is a wake-up call…We need answers.
Small photo from No Land Grab‘s Flickr photo set
you guys sure spend much time looking through pictures, googling numbers, and insulting people, over something so insignificant. It is kind of weird.
.19 = 3,800, significantly higher than your claimed attendance figure of 200
who is “your”
I give up, you are right, you convinced!! Finally, I love bruce ratner, I love the project, and raising over a 100,000 for non profit, that seemingly no one cares about is really just so dismal and pathetic.
Thank you, anonymous poster for making me FINALLY see that I have been so misguided to not believe everything I’m told or read in the papers. Thank you for letting me finally see how lame we have all been by taking conviction, by not bending over for Ratner. Thank you, I finally finally see the light.
Bless you, thank you.
Hence, I repeat, you are dismal. I feel nothing but pity for you.
Surely there must be something more productive you can be doing with your time? You know what is dismal? the amount of people who actually read or care what you single person are saying on this blog. That is what is pathetic, failing and dismal. Surely you can try to find some better way to be heard? Your army of one, is a failure.
Albeit amusing!
from all the pictures of both events, it looked like more people showed up for the doggie halloween parade…gowanuslounge.com
C-O-O-K-E-D D-E-A-L
1:56,
At your behest, I checked out voting in this country, at least through 1996:
http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/elections/turnout.shtml
For argument’s sake, let’s shave off 30 percentage points of the lowest figure in the above chart, which would be 19%. I’ll help you out even further by restricting the figures to Prospect Heights, which has 20,000 people. 20,000 x .19 = 3,800, significantly higher than your claimed attendance figure of 200. Even if 200 is correct, that is less than 1% of but one neighborhood surrounding the footprint.
Hence, I repeat, the attendance at this rally was dismal.
Anyone who thinks that this march took ten minutes to proceed and was two blocks long is delusional. When I saw it, Letitia James, at the front, was near the former location of Christy’s and the last marcher was near American Apparel.
To the poster who asked, I did not choose to watch this march. I happened to be out food shopping as it occurred. Then I blinked my eyes and it was gone – just like the opponents’ legal case.
Re: the definition of “failure”, opponents have stated their goals to be blockage or reduction in size. To date, none of these goals have been reached. That is the definition of failure.
1:36PM – So lets see b/c in your opinion Pataki, Bloomberg & Silver approved Ratner’s plan in a dishonest manner then it is okay to use every argument (legitimate or not) to try to disrupt the plan from going through?
Seems to me if you want to gain credibility the counter to undemocratic and dishonest tactics is honesty and democracy. Putting up a wall of F-U-D will do nothing except further marginalize your agenda. (which is clearly happening – 200 people; only if you count babies, fetuses and the cops)
Getting back to the main point – it is shameless, dishonest and pathetic to try to prevent this development by using threats of terrorism.
Tish James, Daniel GOldstein and winos like the Haggin Sisters! Now that is terrorism. Be done with them D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L.
Oh so convenient to harp on Prudential like duh why didn’t we think of that now let’s try it.
All of the above should go home sober up and find real work. Including the first two.