In what is being billed as the “first comprehensive survey of local opinion” on the Atlantic Yards project, nearly 90 percent of residents of three Prospect Heights blocks oppose Bruce Ratner’s mega-development.
That stunning bit of news was revealed by the Prospect Place Block Association, which claimed it surveyed 150 people on Prospect Place between Flatbush and Underhill avenues.
That stretch is just three blocks from where Ratner proposes to build 16 skyscrapers, a basketball arena, a hotel, hundreds of thousands of square feet of offices and 6,860 units of housing.
And the survey says: 87 percent of local residents are against it, while only five percent are in favor (and the majority of that five percent is actually opposed to the state’s use of eminent domain and towers taller than 28 stories, of which there would be several).
Local residents are taking the less-than-shocking survey in stride. So did Forest City Ratner; a spokeswoman had no comment.
