The plaza outside Borough Hall morphed into a court of action and frolics when Forest City Ratner and Borough President Marty Markowitz hosted a pro-Atlantic Yards rally, which doubled as a Brooklyn-Queens Day celebration.
Participants took to the square in support of the mixed-use commercial and residential development project of Brooklyn developer Bruce Ratner and architect Frank Gehry.
The development proposed for Prospect Heights and Park Slope, adjacent to Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene, consists of 16 high-rise buildings, capped by the Barclays Center, which would serve as the new home of the New Jersey Nets basketball team.
The day featured the Nets Drumline Marching Band, the Jammin’ Jumpers from Canarsie and local dignitaries as guest speakers.
Brooklyn-Queens Day celebrates the birth of Brooklyn’s Sunday School Union in the early 1800s with a day off school.
