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court slams esdc / atlantic yards as acorn falls — Brooklynian

court slams esdc / atlantic yards as acorn falls

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  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    We will never see Phase II.

    ....Starting in 2012, we will have an arena with a really big parking lot for the indefinite future.

  • karl the druid
    karl the druid

    did you see the size of hole they dug

    for the bertha lewis public benefits pool?

    awesome

  • boygabriel
    boygabriel

    whynot_31 wrote 10 hours ago »

    We will never see Phase II.

    ....Starting in 2012, we will have an arena with a really big parking lot for the indefinite future.

    Ugh. A truly masterful bait & switch

  • jeffrey
    jeffrey

    ^ There's a joke in there somewhere.

  • karl the druid
    karl the druid

    "eat at bait & switch"

    is forest city ratner's

    fast food division

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    step 1: Take out the "ful".

    step 2: Interpret switch as a type of whip. As in "he taught Bertha who is boss with a switch".

  • krowonhill
    krowonhill

    It's called Progress. Haven't you ever heard of Free Market Capitalism?

    (Wait! Wasn't I being instructed in that just recently?)

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    Correct.

    No one owns the neighborhood.

    Bertha was dumb enough to think that she'd get affordable housing built if she supported the project. ....what a fool.

  • bill c
    bill c

    AY is an example of many things in our society, but it has nothing

    to do with "free market" capitalism. Crony capitalism perhaps. Forest City was not even the highest bidder for the Vanderbilt railyards.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    There are forces more powerful than government. Nothing, especially not the market, is free. Bertha was naive, or in on it, take your pick.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    A clamshell will soon appear where there was once a U haul truck rental, for better or worse.

  • xlizellx
    xlizellx

    but we can all sing about it!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/theater/10footprint.html?_r=2

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    xlizellx wrote 1 hour ago »

    but we can all sing about it!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/theater/10footprint.html?_r=2

    Sounds a little artsy for my tastes, but I like it.

    ....I'm good at singing.

    Not as good as Karl is at poetry, but good nonetheless.

    Karl, is this victory for DDDB kinda like invading Iraq and then being told there were no weapons of mass destruction?

    (i.e. the approval process and bidding was a sham, but it is going to get built anyway?)

    ....we just made up those things so average people would support it.

  • karl the druid
    karl the druid

    this season finale has not yet been written

    but stay tuned

  • stooplady
    stooplady


    Hmmmmm....who were the politicians involved with the development? Who is our new Attorney General. HmmmmmmmmmmHELPmm.Bayan

  • boerum_brahmin
    boerum_brahmin


    Interesting how a Brooklyn judge (Gerges) was Ratner's rubber stamp throughout the process but that a Manhattan judge actually considers the arguments of both sides.

  • karl the druid
    karl the druid


    bruce seemed to go for the shiny yet lower end buyout:


    daughtry, bertha, gerges and the like


    a manhattan judge might have been


    too expensive to purchase

  • boerum_brahmin
    boerum_brahmin


    The ability to buy out the media is to be considered as well. The Jets' West Side Stadium project undoubtedly had its flaws, but it at least wasn't going to displace a single human resident. Yet opponents of that project were framed in the media as "dedicated community activists."


    DDDB was repeatedly called "rabble-rousers" and a "small group of agitators" by the Daily News and Post, and the Times basically refused to acknowledge that there were any opponents to the project at all.


    No surprise, indeed, why there was no coverage of Friedman's decision by the dailies.

  • karl the druid
    karl the druid


    karl prefers these terms:


    townie american vs landtheif gypsies

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