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tel/fax:
718.362.4784
Please note our new postal address when sending
contributions to the legal fund:
121 5th Avenue, PMB #150
Brooklyn, New York 11217
About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.
DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.
We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.
We have the financial support of well over 3,500 individual
donors.
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It's No Wonder the MTA is In Crisis, and Straphangers Will Pay
The MTA is cutting services and transit jobs, and stuffing more New Yorkers on
fewer trains in an attempt to close their budget gap. The Daily News
documents the atrocities here.
Perhaps the MTA wouldn't be in such dire straits and sticking it to New Yorkers
had they not done dumb real estate deals. For example, the MTA has an agreement
to sell the 8-acre Vanderbilt Rail Yards to Bruce Ratner for $100 million (no
money collected yet) leaving $150 million on the table from Extell Development
Company and, moreover, the $214.5 million the yards had been appraised at.
That's a minimum of $50 million the MTA turned down on just one deal. No wonder
New Yorkers now have to pay.
Posted: 11.18.08
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