ESDC Forced to Cough Up Financial Docs on AY
After dragging its feet for two years, the Empire State Development Corporation signalled yesterday that it would finally release documents containing financial information about the Atlantic Yards project. After the ESDC fought a freedom of information reques last year, Assemblyman James Brennan teamed up with state Senator Velmanette Montgomery on Monday to file a lawsuit…
After dragging its feet for two years, the Empire State Development Corporation signalled yesterday that it would finally release documents containing financial information about the Atlantic Yards project. After the ESDC fought a freedom of information reques last year, Assemblyman James Brennan teamed up with state Senator Velmanette Montgomery on Monday to file a lawsuit against the ESDC for improperly withholding the financial documents. One reason opponents of the project are so curious to see the documents is to get a better view into how profitable the project is expected to be for Bruce Ratner, hoping that big numbers would undermine his argument for needing to make the site so dense. The craving for transparency is due in part to the fact that the project gets to by-pass the city’s land-review process because so much of the land is state-owned.
Lawmakers Push for the Release of AY Financial Documents [NY Sun]
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and you’ll notice that the troll has to post using my name but can’t with the typekey icon because I registered.
But you already knew that since you’re the one doing it.
Anon 4:15 PM, we’re trying to keep it that way. Brooklyn is, and has always been, a very special place. Everyone who lives here is aware of its rich possibilities. This blog, amongst others, is representative of that. However, our precious sandbox, is at risk. Not to get carried away with hyperbole, but it’s very difficult to sit by and observe the obfuscation of justice and the democratic process. The more that I witness the Atlantic Yards process, the more cynical I become, and the more I lose faith in the democratic process. And no where is that more evident than in the fact that a certain group of AY supporters took it upon themselves to spit upon the few protesters who showed up to picket the project. And all that they were asking for is just some transparency to the process and for an opportunity for the community to participate within the process. This project has been rotten from the start and it’s legacy will follow close behind it like an ominous shadow.
You deny it until your little heart’s content, Bx2Bklyn. It sure is funny how the only moniker that ever gets linked to these foul links is yours. It sure is funny how I can go into the archives and find the same stuff many months ago. But whatever. Brooklyn has its share of perverts just like any other place. You’re just one of many, unfortunately.
oops- 3:53.
I don’t argue that it’s not, david. I never did. And if you bother to really remember all the previous discussions, most “anti-AY people have no argument with developing the area- it’s how its done. I’m opting for quality over quantity because you and I both know that sheer quantity does not make for quality. Hope I made that simple enough for you to understand because if you can’t grasp the slippery slope argument I can’t help you. There’s still is a great deal of validity in the argument, and I am quite well aware how it can be used both ways. However a school and an arena are 2 vastly different venues and if a society can’t put a school at a higher priority than an arena, it gets what it deserves.
(note to 3:51 & 55- thanks, and sadly, 3:55 my life is not so exciting (if you’re judging based on the troll’s posted links.) those aren’t my links, and I don’t bother to click on them after getting tricked when the troll began posting them months ago).
anon 4:03 PM, may I suggest some pepto bismol, valium, milk of magnesia, or any of the many elixirs available over the counter. Either that, or you probably ought to take up meditation and yoga (deep breathing at a minimum).
I’m ready for the prime time debate to be televised. NBC, ABC, PBS, anyone? Let’s put some faces, names and character to the advocates.
Readers…take notice which ‘targets’ the blood-sucking vampires/nefarious trolls consistently try to defame and diminish. Notice, they never attack the likes of ‘David’ and other pro-AY supporters.
What is it that these trolls fear? Could it be the creative, out-of-the-box thinker who has heart and isn’t completely driven by or beholden to the almighty dollar?
Continue the journey of enlightenment! There is more to learn about this project and time alone will reveal all.
Bx2Bklyn the “slippery slope” argument is the second worst argument (After simply personal slander). EVERYTHING is a slippery slope – for example:
‘We shouldnt restrict ED b/c it is a slippery slope – today we make it illegal to build an arena, tomorrow some zealous property owner prevents a necessary scool from being built’ (please dont argue this back to me – it is an EXAMPLE)
If you want to have some credibility argue why a rebuilt and covered railyard, a large entertainment venue, tons of brand new economic activity and hundreds of units of affordable housing in a mostly vacant or underutilized area are not a public benefit.
Well it looks like Coney Island is getting an AY of it’s own now anyway. Also, since when are white people deathly scared of Coney?