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.
Few have paid attention to the news, contained in a Development Agreement made
available only in late January, that developer Forest City Ratner has 12 years
to build Phase 1 of the Atlantic Yards project and 25 years to build the project--both
with generous options for extensions.
However, with a press briefing yesterday and a PowerPoint presentation titled
"From political theater to public loss," BrooklynSpeaks packaged some
of the relevant information, providing new estimates of the loss to the public
caused by the delayed provision of affordable housing. ...Continue
reading.
Litigation
Continues Over Atlantic Yards Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Despite Justice Abraham Gerges’ decision Monday transferring the title of the
land held by the remaining property owners in the Atlantic Yards “footprint” to
the state, several lawsuits regarding the controversial development project are
still pending.
BrooklynSpeaks, a community initiative, awaits the decision for its suit, filed
in November 2009, which challenges the approval process for Atlantic Yards. (As
is DDDB and 19 co-plaintiffs) ...
Tuesday, BrooklynSpeaks held a media briefing at the offices of the Fifth Avenue
Committee on DeGraw Street for an in-depth discussion of what’s changed now that
the final agreements have been signed. The group discussed how the public should
be concerned, and the growing amount of attention that the abuses in public/private
partnerships have been receiving.
Contact:
Governor
David A. Paterson Mail: State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224 Phone: 518-474-8390
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Eminent Domain Case
Goldstein et al v. ESDC [All
case files]
What
would Atlantic Yards Look like?... Photo
Simulations
Before and After views from around the project footprint
revealing the massive scale of the proposed luxury apartment
and sports complex.
