This editorial is a bit of an extreme view. Had it appeared in the New York Post, it would be easy enough to dismiss outright… but this comes from the the Daily News, which in the past has been fairly sympathetic to the anti-Ratner crowd:
Bounce this suit
“Opponents of the planned $3.5 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn have stooped to a new and ludicrous low by filing a futile and all-too-predictable lawsuit in state Supreme Court to try to stop developer Bruce Ratner from demolishing six vacant, partially collapsed buildings that he already owns…“
“Opponents appear determined to sue early and often to tie him up in litigation and are even trying raise a nonissue: the fact that an ESDC environmental lawyer involved in the project once worked for Ratner…” Read more…
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The Daily News editorial board, who wrote this, has been opposed to Ratnerville opponents. The reporters have done reporting. The editorial board led by project proponent Errol Louis, have only written venomous, stupid, antagonist, uninformed folklore.
So Dan Goldstein is now posting under yet another name? He’s posted under his real name, under ratnerville, and now, I guess, ratnerville4ever. I include the last name because the above post originally appeared on the thread under “ratnerville4ever”. This feeds Errol Louis’s theory about how opponents are trying to make the opposition look larger than is actually is.