Julie Satow writes in the The
New York Sun: “Community groups opposing Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic
Yards development in Brooklyn are advancing an alternative proposal to develop
the site. The "unity plan" calls for the development of the 11-acre
rail yard but does not include a new home for the New Jersey Nets.”
MARSHALL BROWN: “It is about stitching communities together by
creating new street connections and public parks … rather than act as a wall,
as in the Forest City Ratner plan."
DePLASCO (Forest City Ratner): “Not feasible …
They have no way to pay for it.”
HENRY WEINSTEIN (owns 120,000 sq ft of property in the Ratner footprint): "The
unity plan … is a good alternative and is definitely
feasible."
LETITIA JAMES: "The community is not antidevelopment,
it just opposes eminent domain.”