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tel/fax:
718.362.4784
Please note our new postal address when sending
contributions to the legal fund:
121 5th Avenue, PMB #150
Brooklyn, New York 11217
About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.
DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.
We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.
We have the financial support of well over 3,500 individual
donors.
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May 3, 2pm: Community Rally on Atlantic Yards
MARK YOUR CALENDARS and Come on out…
Community Rally On Atlantic Yards Called For
May 3rd, 2 PM
752
Pacific Street
(near Carlton Avenue)
in the "footprint" of the proposed project.
Call a Time Out on the Atlantic Yards Bait and Switch:
A Community Rally to Tell Governor Paterson to Halt the Atlantic Yards Project
If you only go to one major Atlantic Yards rally...this is the one:
A major community rally will be held Saturday, May 3, 2pm at 752 Pacific Street.
The Council
of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, Brooklyn
Speaks, and Develop
Don't Destroy Brooklyn will join with community leaders and elected officials
in calling for a freeze on all Atlantic Yards activities. The three sponsoring
organizations represent thousands of New Yorkers that have had differing perspectives
on issues raised by the Atlantic Yards proposal, but all agree that the current
state of affairs is intolerable.
The following elected officials have confirmed attendance: NYS Senator Velmanette
Montgomery, NYS Assemblywoman Joan Millman, NYS Assemblyman
Hakeem Jeffries, NYC Councilwoman Letitia James, NYC Councilman Bill Deblasio,
NYC Councilman David Yassky, NYC Councilman Tony Avella.
DDDB has always maintained that Atlantic Yards is not a feasible project. Recent
developments in the financial markets and statements
by the developer have made that certain, and call the entire project and its
purported public benefits into question. The only thing currently with a timeline
is the arena and its luxury skyboxes and acres of demolished vacant lots. Meanwhile
our neighborhoods are being blighted by unnecessary demolitions for a project
that is now a big unknown.
DDDB’s position remains the same
as it has from the beginning—the project is bad for many reasons from process
to finance to design, and we oppose it. The project should be scrapped;
it’s time for a new plan to develop the rail yards in a democratic, fair and responsible
way with genuine community participation.
So come on out on May 3rd -- bring your friends, join your neighbors, fellow New
Yorkers, elected officials and community leaders in telling Governor Paterson:
> No More Demolitions!
> No More Eminent Domain!
> No More Subsidies!
> No More Changes to Infrastructure!
You can download a rally flier and handcard to distribute at: http://tinyurl.com/4uk8zx
Please email us to volunteer to distribute fliers for the rally, at: contact@dddb.net
Public transportation to the rally:
SUBWAY: [Map]:
2/3 to Bergen Street
B, D,M,N,R to Pacific Street
Q to 7th Avenue
C to Lafayette or Washington Avenues
2,3,4,5 to Atlantic Avenue
BUS:
65 On Dean Street going East, or Bergen Street Going West
45 on Atlantic Avenue
Posted: 4.24.08
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