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COUNCIL FOULS out Community Residents Not Allowed to Speak Until Press and Most Officials Leave Hearing SATURDAY • MAY 8, 2004 Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN • Vol. 27, No. 18 BWN • Saturday, May 8, 2004 • FREE COUNCIL FOULS OUT Community residents not allowed to speak until press and most officials leave hearing By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers NOT JUST NETS After battling to have their voices heard in THE NEW BROOKLYN an official public forum, community mem- bers were left fuming this week when a City Council hearing on the Atlantic Yards arena COMPLETE COVERAGE proposal left them waiting nearly five hours to testify. ONLINE AT The delay meant that their testimony was not BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM heard by most daily news media, whose reporters left to file stories for the evening deadline, and You’ll find the most complete coverage of the Downtown Brooklyn and Atlantic even many council members and officials had Terminal urban renewal plans every week long since departed the council chambers by the only in The Brooklyn Papers. Then go time the largely anti-arena testifiers spoke. online for an archive of all our stories. By the last hour of the hearing, which ran until about 7:30 pm, only the chairman of the Eco- nomic Development Committee that hosted the council members were still in attendance. Almost hearing, Queens Councilman James Sanders, and all the press had gone, and even the EDC offi- Prospect Heights Councilwoman Letitia James, a cials had packed up their bags and headed out. member of the committee and a staunch oppo- Bertha Lewis, executive director of the Asso- nent of the plan, remained out of nine members ciation of Community Organizations for Reform of the panel. Now (ACORN), which is in support of the plan, More than 300 supporters and opponents of blasted officials, saying that if city officials had the plan packed into the standing-room-only really wanted community input they would have council chambers at 10 am on Tuesday, many let the community speak. taking the day off from work to weigh in on the ACORN brought six buses of supporters of $2.5 billion commercial, retail and residential de- Ratner’s arena, office skyscraper and housing velopment in Prospect Heights. plan to the hearing. While representatives of Atlantic Yards devel- “Some community members had to leave to go oper Bruce Ratner and his Forest City Ratner pick up their children from school,” said Lewis, company, as well as officials from the city Eco- who railed against the hearing’s organizers for put- nomic Development Corp. and Borough Presi- ting off community speakers until the end. / Jori Klein dent Marty Markowitz — both proponents of the Norman Siegel, the lawyer and former head of plan, which would bring the New Jersey Nets the New York Civil Liberties Union, who is rep- basketball team to Brooklyn — all got a chance resenting about 150 residents fighting the con- to speak at some length, community members demnation of their property to build the 21-acre were offered just two-minute slots and did not development, also called the hearing “extremely The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn get to testify until after 3 pm. unfair.” Attorney Norman Siegel, flanked by Councilwoman Letitia James, speaks to reporters on behalf of the coalition Develop Don't Destory-Brooklyn, in By that time less than half of those who had “People this morning said they wanted an City Hall Tuesday. The press conference was held before the Economic Devleopment Committee’s hearing on Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan. wished to testify remained and only a handful of See PUBLIC SHUT OUT on page 15 Great deals, Coalition cracking amazing views By Lisa J. Curtis Source: Owners starting to cut deals GO Brooklyn Editor By Deborah Kolben Metrotech office complex in ments, sources told The Brook- THIS WEEKEND On Saturday, May 8, the Brooklyn Waterfront Art- The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE Downtown Brooklyn. lyn Papers. ists Coalition unveils its 12th annual Pier Art Show Just last week, all but two of The art-deco former storage with a reception and a live performance by the band Acoalition of property the 31 condominium owners at owners who banded together sources told The Brooklyn Pa- building, converted into luxury Lovebutton. pers. 636 Pacific St., a nine-story condos last year, is just one of Part neighborhood celebration and part treasure trove of to fight developer Bruce Ratner is the principal owner building known as the Atlantic many buildings facing condem- emerging Brooklyn artists, the enormous collection of Ratner’s Atlantic Yards bas- of Forest City Ratner, best Art Building, were negotiating nation as part of the plan. ketball arena, office tower and works, displayed in a warehouse on the Red Hook water- known for constructing the with Ratner to sell their apart- See CRACKING on page 15 front, is worth a visit whether you’re a collector, an artist housing proposal showed in need of inspiration, or an art lover in need of fresh air signs this week of crumbling. and wonderful views. Only a handful of tenants This year’s exhibit spans 20,000 square feet of gallery and homeowners living on the space and features the works of 300 artists. two blocks facing condemna- In the BWAC Community Outreach Exhibit, the works tion under the state’s authority by patients in the Creative Arts Therapy program — in- Experts slam Ratner’s of eminent domain came to tes- cluding J. Gonzalez’s painting, “6 am on the J @ 100” tify at Tuesday’s City Council (pictured) — will be on display. hearing. Of the project’s oppo- The exhibit, open on weekends through June 27 (and nents who came to testify, most Memorial Day, May 31) from noon to 6 pm, also has live do not live on the site. ‘dribble-down’ study music, slide presentations and lectures. The group, known as Devel- Admission is free. Free shuttle bus service will be op Don’t Destroy-Brooklyn, ums as having no direct econom- / Greg Mango / Greg Say developer’s available from the Smith-9th Street G and F train who banded together earlier this ic benefits on local economies. station from noon to 6 pm on May 8 and on year to hire civil rights attorney paid-for study is He says the Ratner project is June 27. The show is in a warehouse at on Norman Siegel to fight the plan, different because of the residen- the waterfront at 499 Van Brunt St. For has hosted several large-turnout based on false tial and commercial component. more information, visit www.bwac.org rallies in the past few months, assumptions But this week many of Zim- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn or call (718) 596-2507. comprised largely of the people balist’s peers came out challeng- PAGE 7 BEGINS ON who would either be evicted or Mango / Greg ing some of his figures and as- have their property condemned By Deborah Kolben sumptions. if the plan is approved. The Brooklyn Papers According to the report, re- But aside from the conspicu- Asports economist hired leased Monday, the city and state ously slim turnout at Tuesday’s by Atlantic Yards developer will pitch in $18 million per year Preservationists: Ikea bad public hearing, there were other, Bruce Ratner to study the for the arena and will take in more overt signs of a fractured about $17.7 million from the financial feasibility of the Papers File The Brooklyn By Deborah Kolben 346,000-square-foot home furnishing buildings are beyond salvaging, Bill coalition this week. Anti-Atlantic sports complex, intended as basketball arena, office Bruce Ratner The Brooklyn Papers emporium, Ikea is looking to knock Struever, president of the Baltimore- Yards posters have come down home to Ratner’s recently pur- down about a dozen buildings, some dat- based Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse from the entryway and most tower and housing plan chased New Jersey Nets. As Ikea moves to city review of ing back to the Civil War. (SBER) disagrees. windows of 636 Pacific St., one released his results this week the entire project would net Zimbalist estimates that in- its plan to build a big-box store The former Todd Shipyards site, more “That’s baloney,” said Streuver, who of many buildings that would to a great deal of criticism. $812 million of additional rev- frastructure costs, including a along the Red Hook waterfront, a recently known as the New York Ship- calls the buildings “majestic” and is face the wrecking ball to make Ratner commissioned the enue for the city and state over platform that would have to be real estate developer proposing an yards — roughly bounded by Dwight looking to build a sprawling, 70-acre re- way for the 21-acre residential, study by Andrew Zimbalist — the next 30 years. built over the rail yards, and alternative development for the site Street, Columbia Street and the Erie tail, residential and commercial develop- retail and commercial complex. some call it his “dribble-down Zimbalist, a professor at eminent domain property tak- Basin — was once home to the largest ment between Richards and Columbia Why have the residents gone theory” — and it used numbers Smith College in Massachusetts, ings, will cost $187.73 million. has garnered support from city dry dock on the east coast. Civil War streets along the Erie Basin. silent? and assumptions largely pro- has written several books on The large-scale development preservation groups.
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