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Will anti-Yards fight go on?

By Ariella Cohen
The Brooklyn Paper

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Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards appears headed for approval later this fall, but opponents say they’ll just take their fight to the courtroom. Here are two legal strategies:

•Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn plans to sue on the grounds that the Empire State Development Corporation is illegally condemning private property to advance a favored developer’s project. Ironically, DDDB spokesman Daniel Goldstein’s condo is in one of the buildings to be condemned.

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“People are losing their homes and their rights and the Empire State Development Corporation has not put forth an adequate relocation plan,” said Jennifer Levin, an attorney for 10 rent-stabilized tenants who would be displaced by the project.

•The group is also considering a suit if the project’s impacts are not fully disclosed in the final environmental impact statement.

©2006 The Brooklyn Paper

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