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The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council

Atlantic Yards 2011: Real Governance Matters
Start Date: 
June 11, 2011 - 2:00pm
Categories
Topic : 
Urban planning
Atlantic Yards
Sponsored By: 
BrooklynSpeaks
Location: 
Atlantic Terrace
673 Atlantic Avenue (corner of South Portland Street)
United States
Description: 

It’s been more than a year since Atlantic Yards broke ground, and more than four years since the project was approved. Now construction may take 25 years or longer. Promised jobs and affordable housing haven’t materialized, while hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars have been spent already. And in the near term, most of what Brooklyn may end up with is an arena and a massive surface parking lot.
 
How did this happen? And, more importantly, what can be done now to ensure that promised public benefits are delivered and construction impacts are reduced?
 
Join the BrooklynSpeaks sponsors, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery and other local elected officials Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 2:00PM for a community forum on real reform of Atlantic Yards oversight. Find out what community organizations and local legislators are doing to make Forest City Ratner and the Empire State Development Corporation accountable to Brooklyn and to New York City.

Open to: 
General public