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About DDDB
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there are 51 community organizations formally
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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
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Opponents of the Atlantic Yards development project are saying that a new
agreement makes it impossible for developer Bruce Ratner to finish the entire
project in 10 years. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.
REPORTER: Ratner maintains he can build the project in 10 years, and the state's
adopted that timeline in order to measure its economic benefits and environmental
impacts.
But an attorney for the project's opponents, Jeff Baker, argued in a recent
letter to state officials that the timeline is a fiction. Over lengthy negotiations,
Ratner just got the MTA this summer to agree to sell him the train yard in
pieces.
But Ratner's not allowed to start building on each parcel until he
pays for it. And according to the schedule of payments, he won't finish paying
for the last parcel until the year 2030 meaning the full project won't be
done until some time after that.
The Empire State Development Corporation is expected to approve the revised
plan Thursday morning. For WNYC, I'm Matthew Schuerman.
HOST: A spokesman for Ratner says the MTA schedule includes a cushion
(Emphasis added.)
Cushion as in 100 waterbed mattresses on top of that MTA pea.
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Governor
David A. Paterson Mail: State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224 Phone: 518-474-8390
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Eminent Domain Case
Goldstein et al v. ESDC [All
case files]
Petitioners filed
a motion for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals
on July 31, 2009. That motion was denied on Dec. 1, 2009
A motion for reconsideration was filedon Dec. 23, 2009.
What
would Atlantic Yards Look like?... Photo
Simulations
Before and After views from around the project footprint
revealing the massive scale of the proposed luxury apartment
and sports complex.
