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Big Brother Bruce
There has been a lot of attention paid to the Atlantic Yards project lately, what
with that PACB thingee yesterday–something
about 3 guys up in Albany lording it over Brooklyn.
We decided to take a look at the Atlantic Yards project too, and found that somebody
is paying a lot of attention to the footprnt itself these days.
We walked the Dean Street and
Pacific street blocks bounded by 5th Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue and Flatbush
Avenue, to tally up the number of Surveillance City Ratner Eyes in the
Sky. We counted 29. Check
it out.
Now that we've completed this exercise, we're wondering: It's not enough for Forest
City Ratner to have hung the threat of eminent domain over the footprint for over
3 years, bu now they must monitor the inhabitants with surveillance cameras? Why?
If Bruce's project is ever built what will be in store for those "publicly-accessible,
private
open spaces?"
And what would the Center
for Constitutional Rights President and Bruce's big
brother Michael Ratner, a co-investor
in the Atlantic Yards project, think about this, or this,
or this?
And maybe we can get one of those cameras in the backroom next time.
Posted: 12.21.06
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