Speak Truth to Power: Public Meeting about Atlantic Yards
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Newsletter
July 22, 2009
Ask Questions About and Say NO to Atlantic Yards
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In this issue:
> Tonight, July 22: Come Out and Ask Ratner & ESDC Your Questions at “Informational Meeting”—————————————-
> Tonight, July 22: Come Out and Ask Ratner & ESDC Your Questions at “Informational Meeting”
> July 29: SAY NO TO ATLANTIC YARDS – PROTEST Against Ratner’s Rip-off
Meeting Notice from the Community Boards:
Join Brooklyn Community Boards 2, 6 & 8 at an Informational Meeting to hear an updated presentation on proposed modifications to the Atlantic Yards Development General Project Plan. At this meeting proposed modifications to the plan will be presented by representatives for the New York State Empire Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner Companies. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for questions (to be submitted in writing) and answers.
Meeting will be held 6:00-9:00pm on July 22, 2009
at Long Island University’s Zeckendorf Health Sciences Center, Room 107
(enter Dekalb Avenue, off Flatbush Avenue).
Norman Oder wonders, on his Atlantic Yards Report, how forthcoming—or non-forthcoming—the ESDC and Ratner will be tonight. He also provides six suggested questions for the ESDC and Ratner that you can ask or might give you some ideas for other questions.
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> July 29: SAY NO TO ATLANTIC YARDS – PROTEST Against Ratner’s Rip-off
We need you all to come out for this. PLEASE spread the word.
If you can take the afternoon off from work, please arrive by 2pm.
If you cannot please come after work for the 2nd round of protest and hearing at 6pm onward, when we’ll regroup…
Wednesday. July 29. 2pm.
Start Gathering at 1pm.
Outside Klitgord Auditorium of NYC Technical College
285 Jay Street, Near Tillary [Map]
(A/C to Jay St./Borough Hall. 2/3 to Borough Hall)
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC, which is the state agency overseeing the Atlantic Yards proposal) is holding a public hearing on the Atlantic Yards project on July 29th.
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn urges you to join a protest against Ratner’s destructive project outside the hearing and then to testify at the hearing.
This is it: there will be no more public hearings on Atlantic Yards or protests like this one.
This is the community’s chance to tell ESDC and Ratner:
We Don’t Want Atlantic Yards.
We Want Development That Works for the Community,
Not at the Expense of the Community.
Atlantic Yards Must Be Scrapped!
Join DDDB, other community groups, residents, clergy, union members, and elected officials for the 2pm protest. Please start gathering at 1pm.
(**Protest will start up again at 6pm.)
The hearing is scheduled from 2-5 and 6-8. The protest will start at 1. Then DDDB asks the public to sign in and testify against the project. (If you are unable to come for the afternoon protest and hearing, DDDB urges you to come for the late afternoon/evening hearing; we will be there from 1 until the end at 8 or later. Look for us.)
Bring Protest Signs.
Speak your mind about the project.
Atlantic Yards is a rip-off for taxpayers,
A rip-off for straphangers,
A rip-off for those in need of affordable housing,
A rip-off for those in need of employment.
A rip-off for Brooklynites and a rip off for New Yorkers
It is a boondoggle for Bruce Ratner…
No More Bailouts for Billionaires
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Whether you can come to the hearing and testify, or can’t, please, PLEASE, submit your written comments about the project and responses to the Modified General Project Plan. Here’s how:
Written comments can be submitted via email or U.S. mail.[email protected]
*** If submitting via email, please indicate in subject line:
“Public Comment for Atlantic Yards MGPP.”
Email:
Mailing address:
ESDC
Attention: Steve Matlin, Senior Counsel
633 Third Avenue, 37th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Deadline for all submission for comments is August 31, 2009 at 5:30pm.
The ESDC hearing notice can be downloaded here.
Questions about any of the above? Contact us at: [email protected]