Via Tenant.net: "Tenants in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn are trying to get developer Bruce Ratner called for charging."
"The developer wants to take over seven blocks stretching south and east
from Atlantic and Flatbush avenues for ‘Brooklyn Atlantic Yards,’ a
massive project that would include a new arena for the New Jersey Nets
basketball team and 4,500 high-rise apartments, almost all at luxury
rents. Residents in the area are crying foul, saying that Ratner is
elbowing aside community concerns about scale, traffic, and
displacement like a combination of Robert Moses and a renegade power
forward bulling his way to the hoop.
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"’People will be happy to have the Nets play in Brooklyn, but not on
the crushed homes of my neighbors," says Patti Hagan of the Prospect
Heights Action Coalition. "If he can’t build his toy, his basketball
arena, without destroying peoples’ homes and businesses, he’s building
in the wrong place." Read everything…