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30/Apr/05: Marty Markowitz wants your feedback! See his website at www.brooklyn-usa.org and write to him at askmarty@brooklynbp.nyc.gov.
17/Feb/05: The NY Press has an article on mega-developer Bruce Ratner
15/Feb/05: Juan Gonzalez of the Daily News writes "Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a new $1.7 billion Jets stadium on
Manhattan's far West Side is about to collapse - for a good reason.
The more we read the fine print of the Jets-Bloomberg deal to build the
world's most expensive stadium, the worse it looks for taxpayers and
transit riders."
The BrooklynNets.blogspot has info and links on the issue.
StaceyJoy is a local blogger commenting on the proposed seizure. Her shop is going to be "rendered nonviable as a business location" by Ratner and Markowitz.
Property Rights Foundation of America comments on the threat.
Find out about the No Stadium! group and join their mailing list at their site.
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PUBLIC USE and the PUBLIC GOOD
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mailto:JoeMcDonald@mofosports.net
who wrote http://www.mofosports.net/news/njn/1074844166.html
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:12:54 -0500
From: "Gary Popkin"
Subject: Eminent-domain alert
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz wants to build a second sports
stadium in Brooklyn (his "legacy") and he doesn't care from whom he steals
or who he hurts to do it. Ratner the builder is in on it, and the plan is
to build a stadium for the Nets, I think, in the area called Atlantic
Terminal (so-called because it is at the Atlantic Avenue terminus of the
Long Island Rail Road). He plans to steal for Ratner, by eminent domain,
whatever land is needed for the project.
December 2004 Update:
The carolers were angry. And the jeers that were their carols, to the
tune of "The 12 days of Christmas," said it all: "On the first day of
Christmas Bruce Ratner took from me: A home for my fa-mi-ly."
Accompanied by accordion and guitar, the protesters wound their way up
and down Dean and Pacific streets in Brooklyn, marching past Vanderbilt
and Flatbush avenues around a dark train yard ? the site of a failed
late-1950s bid to keep Ebbets Field and the Dodgers in the heart of
Brooklyn. If developer Bruce Ratner has his way, six mixed-use blocks
around this Long Island Rail Road site would be razed by right of
eminent domain. Above the yard and over a few of the leveled streets
would rise a $2.5-billion basketball arena complex housing the Nets.
Gone would be what opponents insist amounts to about 1,000 homes and
scores of businesses. "The whole thing is nuts. It's insane," said Patti
Hagan, the leader of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition, a band of
homeowners, renters and businesses formed last year to combat the plan.
Hagan, who purchased a brownstone a few blocks from the site 25 years
ago, asked: "Where in the U.S. Constitution does it say that anyone can
do that?"
NY Newsday Article
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:42:36 -0500
From: "Gary Popkin"
Subject: Eminent-domain alert
Here are some links to start with. Some people are already trying to stop
the project, among them the newest councillady, Lititia James. She was
elected as the candidate of the Working Families Party in a four-way race
against a Democrat, a Republican, and a Conservative, the first
councilperson to be elected without big-party support since ... oh, ... I
guess none of us has. She filled the seat that was involuntarily vacated by
James Davis when he was murdered in the balcony of the council chamber.
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/031210gehry.asp
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/sports/features/n_9393/
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Here is a link to more than you need to know about Atlantic Yards, the
proposed stadium for the Nets in Brooklyn.
http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/bknets.htm
Some of the development would cover an existing Long Island Railroad cut,
which extends east from Flatbush Avenue for about two or three blocks along
Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street. No loss there. But this is a huge
development, most of it given to non-Nets uses such as residences and
retail. One large portion occupies two city blocks (of the size and
proportion of, let's say, the area bounded by W. 25th St., W. 27th St., 8th
Ave., and 9th Ave. in Manhattan). These blocks are fully residential
(brownstone buildings), so any claim by Markowitz that "only" 100 residents
would be bounced out is an obvious lie.
Jim writes:
In this morning's Newsday, the activists opposing the arena say it will
be more like 1,000 displaced residents.
See:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-arena1221,0,1018813.story
Jim Lesczynski
Get organized!