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718.362.4784
Please note our new postal address when sending
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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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Knowing the Community
City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, in an inaccurate and myth recreating
NY Times profile:
...“That’s the hardest thing about the job is learning every block,”
she [Burden] said. “Every one of those 65 rezonings, every one, I know
them all. And I don’t think you should be allowed to propose reshaping
a community unless you know it....
Agreed. Completely.
Note well that "Atlantic Yards" did not go through a rezoning which
would have allowed for Ms. Burden and her commission to "know" the community. "Atlantic Yards" went through a state led zoning override which bypasses the City Charter and undemocratically reshapes city zoning (additionally it overrides all local building regulations).
So, as an examplar of this, we had one of the four Empire State Development Corporation board members,
at the project's approval meeting, asking:
...“What are the cross streets for (Site) 5,” asked board member Charles
Dorkey, apparently unfamiliar with Brooklyn’s busiest intersection....
... A little later, [Board member Charles] Dorkey had identified Atlantic and
Flatbush avenues on one posterboard. He pointed to the southern border of the
project site. “Is that Pacific, at the bottom of the project?”
“This is Dean Street,” [ESDC Director of Planning and Environmental Review Rachel]
Shatz responded, offering some basic Brooklyn map work. “Pacific is the one
in the middle."...
Norman Oder goes deeper to analyaze Ms. Burden's inconsistencies and the Times'
poor reporting in his Atlantic Yards Report article, "Times
profile of planning chair Burden maintains AY myth, suffers curious cut."
Posted: 1.15.07
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