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How Blight Has Been Perverted and Used as a Weapon

Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn - David A. Smith, founder of the Affordabl Housing Institute has written a must-read, two part evisceration of the perversion of the term...

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On Brian Lehrer: the Manhattan Institute's Gelinas vs. AY on eminent domain, blight, and affordable housing (and Ratner as a creature of the state)

Atlantic Yards Report - Yesterday, WNYC talk show host Brian Lehrer opened up a segment on Atlantic Yards by suggesting that listeners might be surprised that opponents...

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Best Comment Of The Day: Sad Day For Brooklyn

Best Comment Of The Day: Sad Day For Brooklyn

Pardon Me For Asking - Lisanne has left the following comment on the post Protesting Ratner's Atlantic Yards Ground Breaking Ceremony : I wasn't there but i have been at other protests and i knew this one would...

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Atlantic Yards: A Scam, A Boondoggle, A Land Grab, A Bait & Switch, A Failure of Democracy

No Land Grab - Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn On the occasion of Bruce Ratner's Boondoggle Celebration and Groundtaking Ceremony for the elite, connected,...

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What a Wonderful Community Minded Neighbor Bruce Ratner Is!

Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn - Every time you hear Forest City Ratner claim Atlantic Yards is all about community, go back and read this must-read piece by Norman Oder:...

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Even before Gerges decision, footprint renters were leaving; for some, it was life; for others, it was blight

No Land Grab - Atlantic Yards Report This must-read story from Atlantic Yards Report recounts the human toll of Forest City Ratner's blighting of a neighborhood....

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For the record: a visual history of Atlantic Yards, including four generations of Gehry renderings and the successor (arena + vaportecture)

No Land Grab - Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder, who's been the unofficial historian of the Atlantic Yards project, is now migrating to official status. It's...

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Developer Steve Roth: the more the building was a blight, the more the governments would want this to be redeveloped

Atlantic Yards Report - A New York Observer piece on Vornado Realty Trust Chairman, headlined Steve Roth, Uncorked, described the developer's strategy in holding a...

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Skip Work to Protest and Disrupt Ratner's March 11th Barclays Center Groundbreaking

No Land Grab - Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Lots of us are angry, no...mad, and lots have already said 'I'll be there.' THIS IS THE MOMENT. Skip...

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Marine Park eyesore

YourNabe Brooklyn - A vacant home in Marine Park is a blight on the neighborhood.

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DDDB PRESS RELEASE: Judge Grants New York State Right to Steal Homes By Eminent Domain for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Boondoggle

No Land Grab - Outstanding Legal Issues Still Plague Atlantic Yards Brooklyn, New York-A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge today, in an 80-page ruling, granted the Empire...

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Eminent Domain as Central Planning

No Land Grab - Wielding creative definitions of blight, New York runs roughshod over property rights and uproots viable neighborhoods. City Journal by Nicole Gelinas...

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Senator Perkins' Eminent Domain Bill Must Be Passed

Senator Perkins' Eminent Domain Bill Must Be Passed

Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn - Senator Perkins' bill must be passed, or New York State will continue to be the worst eminent domain abuser in the country. Nicole Gelinas explains: How 'eminent domain'...

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