Ratner to Break Ground on March 11th
In the wake of yesterday’s ruling against the property owners in the footprint of the Barclay’s Center, the Daily News reported that Forest City Ratner will break ground on March 11. State officials said that the evictions would happen over the next several months. Reactions from those who stand to be displaced by eminent domain…
In the wake of yesterday’s ruling against the property owners in the footprint of the Barclay’s Center, the Daily News reported that Forest City Ratner will break ground on March 11. State officials said that the evictions would happen over the next several months. Reactions from those who stand to be displaced by eminent domain ranged from angry to belligerent. “It feels like I live in a state run by crooks,” said Daniel Goldstein. “There’s chains on the bar and a lot of people will be buying handcuffs,” said Steve de Seve of Freddy’s bar, which has served as a gathering spot for those opposed to the project.
Judge Gives Atlantic Yards Project the Green Light [NY Daily News]
Here is a link to the actual Atlantic Yards plan as it now stands:
http://empire.state.ny.us/Subsidiaries_Projects/Data/AtlanticYards/ModifiedGPP2009.pdf
and Brooklyn Speaks’ POV:
http://www.brooklynspeaks.net/then-and-now
“I love my home. But if someone came along today and offered me a price significantly in excess of market value for it, let’s just say I wouldn’t exactly stand on sentiment”.
Fine ENY, but not everyone feels that way–I sure wouldn’t sell under those circumstances.
This is wonderful news! Daniel Goldstein is a fool, someone naive enough to believe that he could ever stop this. You’ve just been given a bitter lesson in raw power, Danny Boy. It must feel miserable to have slaved away at your protest for six years and accomplished absolutely nothing. And before your minions begin to screech about the benefits of delay, what good does delay create when Ratner wins in the end? Delay per se seems like a silly goal.
So, slither off to your next neighborhood (thank God you’ll be leaving mine, Prospect Heights) and be a nuisance elsewhere.
I don’t interpret the law; I just read, and listen to, others’ interpretations about it. I’m just saying Gerges interpreted whether or not this seizure was lawful under the NYS Constitution, and he said it was, or at the very least the challenge was without merit. I was hoping to end the ad hominem attacks on this page, but fsrg, I see you had one more at the ready.
brikenny – no offense but stick with your day job – your interpretation of legal precedent leaves alot to be desired
awful. i want the frank gehry design. this feels like we’re being punished.
“If you want to be angry at justices try the liberal wing of Stevens, Ginsberg, Breyer, Souter and Kennedy”
What the Kelo decision entailed was that the Federal ED standards were different than those of the individual States, and they said the states had their rights to decide how to interpret that. It was a states’ rights issue that was decided; not a liberal/conservative issue. New York may have lousy ED rules, and unlikely to change them right now, post-Kelo (as many other states have done). But Gerges ruled on the state law; not whether it was good or bad law. I look forward to reading the actual ruling.
guvna…
oh yes it does speak volumes about the judges…
i went to enough of the hearings to smell the stink, feel the obfuscation, and to watch the levels of deference that ALL the judges gave to the project.
it appeared that there was nary a backbone(save for the one jusge who wrote the scathing minority opinion).
the judges regularly punted to avoid dealing with issues. those are judges i want gone.
most striking example is the state law that says(in essence) that you dont steal from the poor to give to the rich using state money. the fact, yes fact, that ratner was willfully used as a conduit for slum clearance really jerks my chain.
when i saw the judiciary punt on that one i was pretty sure the disease is endemic.
i dont think that this entire process will be without ramifications.
Longterm we will see some change. short term i might just be next to someone at freddies.
what will Daniel Goldstein do if one day when his son grows up and wants to be taken to a Brookyn Nets game?
Good riddance DG and I hope you move far, far away. I cant imagine another welcoming you with open arms.