I'm a little tired of hearing how everything has to remain old, prewar, rundown and small. Brooklyn is a part of New York City, where we build bigger and better than anywhere else. (or used to before you jobless came along hippies). If you dont like the city life, move to Long Island. While in favor of more schools, hospitals, etc, large housing towers and commerical towers are important too, especially the taxes the corporations will be paying.(I'm in favor of killing the tax breaks we overgive though) And I think Ratner should build at least 3 schools and a hospital on his proposed project. I believe Brookyln Tech already stands to be a winner in this project?

More traffic you say? Of course, because more JOBS always goes with more traffic to get to those JOBS! No Jobs, no traffic. And if there's a baseketball game, no one in their right mind drives to MSG... who's going to drive to the Arena in brooklyn. DUH! Come on people, give a brain a break. Again, if you dont like it, move to the burbs, but not near Nassau Coliseum. The MTA is to blame for poor mass transit that no one trusts. Bloomberg should be to blame, not Ratner. If you want to waste your efforts on complaining of development, why not complain that neighborhoods like East NY or Bushwick are being ignored by those with deep pockets?

Ratner like all developers is after 1 thing, money, but you know what, he could have developed in any city, but he chose to develop Brooklyn. And unless you plan and can afford developing as much as he has proposed over the yards, stop complaining. Not to mention, he paid more than market price for properties. There is a reason why this area has such a low RE value, run down buildings, and a vast empty rail yard, and no one wants to invest in them. So we now get to have state of the art neighborhoods (MetroTech Center, Atlantic Center), new buildings, and more space for our growing population to grow up in... remember, only people dying kills population growth. If you ask me, adding inovation to Brooklyn is better choice than say, Pittsburg or Philadelphia.

People, take a lesson: cities like Tokyo, Dubai, Hong Kong, Vegas and even Beijing (very old city) are growing up. We're not growing, we're going with keep the pre-war era. Stop people who just want to make a name for themselves and politicians who are two-faced, from making a decision for you. I'm sure you'd love to walk around in this site once complete. No one in NYC, let alone tourists would want to visit this area now. (remember tourists = good economy = higher paying jobs)

As for affordable housing, if Ratner wanted to, he could forgoe this, but he didn't. And if "affordable" is too high, well, I'm sorry if property values went up so high that you can't afford it, and I'm sorry if you rent and don't own. Now you have to move somewhere you can afford, but you know what, not everything is fair. Unfair is people who can't afford 1 kid, yet they have 6, and don't want to work hard, and collect welfare. Now your already too high taxes support those 5 other kids.

It's an investment in Brooklyn's future. Don't stick with the, its run down and affordable, welcome to crooklyn idealogy we have stuck with for so many years. No wonder my friends from Queens of all places don't come to visit.