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Atlantic Yards would:
Contain the same amount of development as 23 Williamsburgh Savings Banks
Generate over 20,000 new vehicle trips every day with no plan to avoid gridlock
Contain affordable housing that won't be affordable to average Brooklynites
Potentially be built without significant input from New Yorkers
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Welcome to BrooklynSpeaks
BROOKLYNSPEAKS has been created by civic and community groups to inform New Yorkers about the Atlantic Yards project and enable them to ask the decision-makers only to move forward with a plan that works for Brooklyn.
Atlantic Yards is a proposal by the developer Forest City Ratner to build 16 towers and an arena on a 22 acre site in Prospect Heights. Unfortunately, the plan has been created with no significant input from New Yorkers, and while development of the site could be beneficial, the plan voted on by state officials in December won't work for Brooklyn.
- To view a pop-up slideshow about the plan, click here.
- To find out more about our principles, click here.
- Click here to read a recent paper released by the sponsors calling for the governance of the project to be reformed.
Click here to send a letter to the decision-makers today that the plan must be substantially changed to work for Brooklyn. If New Yorkers speak up, we can achieve a better plan for New York.
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BROOKLYN LEGISLATORS, COMMUNITY AND CIVIC LEADERS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO REFORM ATLANTIC YARDS GOVERNANCE
June 16, 2008
Groups Launch Campaign to Pass Assembly Bill A11395
To Ensure Meaningful Public Oversight, Input in Atlantic Yards
New York, NY – June 16, 2008: A coalition of Brooklyn elected officials and civic groups today gathered on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan today to launch the “Campaign to Reform Atlantic Yards,” an initiative to pass new legislation that would reform the governance of the Atlantic Yards project.
Campaign to reform Atlantic Yards Governance Launches Monday
June 13, 2008
Last August, the sponsors of BrooklynSpeaks.net released a proposal to reform the governance of Atlantic Yards to bring meaningful public oversight and involvement to the project's decision-making.
On Monday, our local legislators plan to launch a campaign to pass legislation that would implement this proposal and reform the project’s governance.
Please join Assembly Members Hakeem Jeffries and James Brennan, Council Members Letitia James and David Yassky and other leaders at the launch this Monday at 10am on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan.
Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?
May 5, 2008
Check out the new slideshow by the Municipal Art Society about the temporary surface parking planned for the site featuring new renderings about the project at AtlanticLots.com!
Hundreds rally for an Atlantic Yards "Time Out"
May 3, 2008
Saturday May 3 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 3 RALLY ASKS GOVERNOR PATERSON TO CALL
TIME OUT ON ATLANTIC YARDS
Tell Governor Paterson to call "Time Out!" on Atlantic Yards Saturday, May 3
April 27, 2008
If you’ve been too busy to get involved with the Atlantic Yards project, unmotivated, or perhaps on the fence…now is the time to say “Whoa! Time out!”