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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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A Bridge Too Late, and More
For those who still remember there was once a Carlton Avenue bridge, its return just moved further out into the future. When it was closed in January 2008 the reopening was scheduled for January 2010. But the date kept moving, and now Norman Oder reports the latest update: April 2012, which would mean the bridge will have been closed more than twice as long as originally promised in the original Atlantic Yards environmental review. Oder suspects, moreover, that fall of 2012 is more likely.
Oder also writes that the entrance to the arena will also be a moving target. When Building 1 is constructed--an office tower plus the "Urban Room"--the entrance to the Arena will be temporarily moved to Sixth Avenue.
Of course, that's not going to happen right away: FCR officials have talked about "five to eight years" for Building 1, and elsewhere said they have no idea. But when B1 construction starts, it will require "pedestrian construction sheds protecting, among other areas, the subway entrance and pedestrian walkways and sidewalks on the arena block." Nothing like a nice set of pedestrian construction sheds. Just don't ask when they'll be removed.
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