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.
In light of the recent
purging of Brooklyn Community Board 6 by Borough President Markowitz the following
should be of even more interest than it otherwise would have been. This morning
(Wednesday) on WNYC radio's Brian Lehrer Show:
What
are Community Boards for?
Tom Angotti, director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and
development, explains what purpose community boards serve and how independent
they are from borough politicians.
The show airs on 820 AM or 93.9 FM starting at 10 am. This segment appears to
be the second of three segments. Listeners can make a live, on air call to the
show at: 212-433-9692
Tom Angotti, of course, is a great authority and activist when it comes to community
based planning and community boards. Amongst other things he wrote the
seminal article on the backwardness of the "process" Forest City Ratner's
"Atlantic Yards" project underwent.
Contact:
Governor
David A. Paterson Mail: State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224 Phone: 518-474-8390
Email Form: Click
Here
Need contacts for other elected officials? Click
here.
Click here to order DDDB tshirts. They cost $20 and
all funds go to our legal campaign, shirts come in black,
red, gold and pink tanktops.
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.
