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.
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I seriously doubt that DDDB raised anywhere near 50K – since their claim that they had 200 people in their walk-a-thon is demonstrably false.
Really, you seriously doubt?
You can easily find the information by checking out the pages of walkers. And unlike Ratner, as a respectable non profit, they can’t lie about numbers like this.
And even if there were 20 people, in a busy world, when people have lives and families, not everyone can come out to walk, but that does not stop people from donating.
Do you make it out to every cause you believe in? Like the anonymous bloggers walk a thon?
How on earth could those things be out of context? And I’m not a reporter, so your post is ridiculous. That said Bam he said it, point blank in many articles I just don’t need to do your homework for you. However it is funny you should say so, considering all the pointless, non sensical made up information that is continually posted on here about people involved in dddb…but I guess that double standard is for your benefit so its okay? That has been the mo of you viscious “proponents” of caring bruce.
Oh and you can google the article just like I did, I’m not preventing you from reading it you silly silly person. I don’t control the internet that way sorry to disappoint!
Go ahead google it.
But since you are so lazy here is the article..and hey we all know that everything the NY Times prints is true!
But I’m sure you’ll find some way to defend the guy, by pointing out that people who don’t like the development are rich, nimby racists…
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DA153EF935A15756C0A9629C8B63
”It’s a problem of malls in dense urban areas that kids hang out there, and it’s not too positive for shopping,” Mr. Ratner said. ”Look, here you’re in an urban area, you’re next to projects, you’ve got tough kids.”
12:21 – Excellent propaganda there Joseph Goebbells:
– take an article – pull the quotes, ignore virtually all context, draw self-serving conclusions based upon said quotes and then fail to include link to original article so as to prevent someone from reading quotes in their original context. We all salute your fair and balanced reporting
ly Brooklyn will be allowed to develop naturally for the first time since the depression.
NATURALLY????????
Now that is the funniest thing I’ve seen on this god foresaken Brownstoner site.
So its natural, to have people actually invest as individuals in a neighborhood that was depressed for years, pay 100’s of employees, buy their co-ops across from neglected MTA trashed land, start small business, that employed people of colors to then be told, get out, here’s some chump change for your trouble, now we will trash the neighborhood again, but make it look like we are making it better, and build a “world class” row of luxury apartments….and call it Natural.
NICE ONE…beautiful!
Here is what your pied piper thinks of the “poor” and “youth” that you all sheepishly think he will “save.”
If these direct quotes from Ratner’s mouth ( not his spokesperson) are not the epitome of a “NIMBY” then exactly what is?
From 2004!
The Times indicates that Ratner believes it was not an issue of class or ethnicity.
But of course, that’s exactly what it is.
Ratner’s quotes indicate a number of disturbing revelations about Bruce Ratner’s mindset:
1) The Atlantic Center Mall was designed with the belief that kids from the “projects” (a label people who live in housing developments abhor) are “tough kids.”
2) Ratner believes insuring conditions that are “positive for shopping” is worth the mall’s back being turned on its neighbors.
3) Ratner casts kids from the neighborhoods around the mall as “kids that cut school.”
4) He sees kids in the suburbs (primarily white) as better behaved with responsible parents. “Here, it’s a little different” is code language for “blacks don’t behave the same as the kids in the suburbs, maybe because they don’t have the same parenting.
In fact, it’s all coded language that says “we had to design the mall to protect shoppers from marauding black youth from the projects who don’t have any parental guidance.”
Ratner, of course, doesn’t use this space to apologize for his and FCR’s biased assesment of the mall’s surrounding communities. He doesn’t say “it was terrible of us to think that way, and I’m sorry. We’ll do everything to never let that happen again.”
Instead, Ratner believes he was right to think that way.
It’s astonishing…these are quotes from a man trying to convince communities that he’s working on their behalf, that he cares about them, that he’ll make their lives better. As for the Times, this was supposed to be the latest in their series of Ratner puff pieces — they are business partners, so don’t look for objectivity on this issue from the Gray Lady.
12:16 – thank you for continuing the ‘sky-is-falling’ diatribe that has made the Anti-AY movement so successful to this point.
I seriously doubt that DDDB raised anywhere near 50K – since their claim that they had 200 people in their walk-a-thon is demonstrably false.
Thats the problem with posting pictures – one can count for themselves – it is clear from the pictures as well as personal observation no more than 75 people turned out.
It really is such a great borough, that exemplified the best kind of urban growth.
RATNER KILLED THE URBAN GROWTH, do you not get that..he kicked out indigenous and new comers…and now there is no one there, and we await Jason Kidd and some new rich folks.
Hooray arena.
unreal. you folks are soul less.
With all of the other problems in our area (low reading scores, drug dealing, trash, etc.)
IS RATNER GOING TO FIX THIS?
HAVE YOU GONE BY THE RAIL YARDS?
DO YOU THINK THAT THE WASTE LAND THAT RATNER IS CREATING, THE YOUTH HE OPENLY FEARS – DO YOU THINK HE IS NOT PART OF THIS PROBLEM?