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Media Alert: Atlantic Yards Protests, Press Conferences and Public Hearing
MEDIA ALERT
Wednesday. July 29th 1:30 and 5:30
Atlantic Yards:
Press Conferences, Protests & Public Hearings
BROOKLYN, NY — Tomorrow, Wednesday July 29th, the Empire State
Development Corporation (ESDC, the state agency "overseeing" developer Forest
City Ratner’s beleaguered Atlantic Yards development proposal in Prospect Heights,
Brooklyn) is holding a 2pm and 6pm public
hearing on the Modified
General Project Plan, where the public is allowed to give 3 minutes of oral
testimony.
While the ESDC holds these hearings on the Ratner project, the public
has yet to see an Atlantic Yards site plan, project rendering or model, cost-benefit
analysis, security study or realistic construction timeline.
"Atlantic Yards is a rip-off for New Yorkers. And now we are being asked to comment
on a phantom project, to 'review' a project without being able to view the project
plans. This is beyond ludicrous. Its farcical," said Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
spokesman Daniel Goldstein. "It is further evidence that Atlantic Yards is a sham
project undergoing a sham process.”
In response to the hearing, leaders of the opposition to Atlantic Yards, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, is calling two press conferences and two protests prior to and during each of the scheduled hearings.
WHO:
1:30 press conference:
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods
> Faye Moore, President
of Social Services Employees Union (SSEU) Local 371
> City Councilmember Letitia James
> State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
> Assemblyman Jim Brennan
> Norman Siegel
and others
5:30 press conference:
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods
> City Councilmember Tony Avella
and others
WHAT:
Press Conference by Atlantic Yards Opponents and Critics
Protest by Atlantic Yards Opponents and Critics
Empire State Development Corporation Public Hearing on Atlantic
Yards Proposal
WHEN:
Wednesday. July 29, 2009
Two Press Conferences and Protests
1:30 Press Conference and 2:00 Protest
5:30 Press Conference and 6:00 Protest
(Public hearing with oral testimony is from 2-5 and 6-8)
WHERE:
Protest and Press Conferences Outside Hearing at
Klitgord Auditorium of NYC Technical College
285 Jay Street, Near Tillary Street [Map]
(A/C to Jay St./Borough Hall. 2/3 to Borough Hall, M/R to Lawrence St./MetroTech)
Posted: 7.28.09
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