Red Hook Residents Suing to Block Ikea Store

From today’s NY Times:

A group of Red Hook residents and community advocates filed suit against the city yesterday in an attempt to block construction of an Ikea furniture store on the Erie Basin in Brooklyn. The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claims that the project was improperly approved by the Bloomberg administration and the City Council because it was based on a faulty environmental impact statement and was inconsistent with the city’s own land-use guidelines for the area. Ikea and the United States Dredging Corporation, which owns the 22-acre waterfront site where the Swedish furniture giant is planning to build, are named in the suit along with city planners and the City Council.
Red Hook Resident Group Sues [NY Times]