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Pledged Amenity Space at Atlantic Yards Was Never Built. What Will That Mean for Promised Affordable Housing?

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  • Former Park Sloper
    Posted July 16, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    The Urban Room was always a bad idea–these efforts toward accountability would be much better placed at getting the current owners Brooklyn Events Center to (1) get Flatbush Ave access to the plaza restored ASAP (their “plaza improvement” currently happening has made this a nightmare for everyone south on 5th Ave corridor that uses that station) and (2) to treat the plaza as a public space, and not as their private entrance system. I used to use this station daily and the kettling gates forced residents to often walk much further out of their way to get to and from the subway because the Barclays folks thought of the plaza as their own personal security check point. During the depths of covid, they had so much of the plaza and subway entrances cordoned off that you had to walk two blocks away to the entrance at 4th & Atlantic just to get in.

    The affordable housing issue is important and should be enforced–80% of the construction was supposed to be affordable and we should hold them to it. Right now, there is marginal affordability still in the first Dean Street buildings, and good affordability in the newer Pacific Street building they put up, as well as 100% market rates in the new Brooklyn Crossing that Brodsky is running. The rest of the park is supposed to be affordable. Get those buildings up!

    But people arguing over the “Urban Room”—just stop. It’s not worth the hot air expended to even discuss.

  • Watching from the sidelines
    Posted July 16, 2022 at 10:45 pm

    Empire State Development has f’d up this project since day 1. With political cronies like Ken Adams (note how on earth did he land a job with CUNY) and other fly by night ESD employees who had no previous background in housing, project management, design or construction. The turnover at this agency is too high for them to oversee any type of project. The Atlantic Yards Community Development Corp has been a mess since day one.

  • The reality
    Posted July 17, 2022 at 10:19 am

    Forest Ratner should be sued
    Cuomo allowed this dysfunction since he allowed ESD to run this project with his political cronies who knew nothing about housing but their own.

  • Joe
    Posted July 20, 2022 at 11:00 am

    Urban room, can we live in a urban room, No, the lack of low income units should really be the issue, by the time this project is finish black and brown people in the surrounding area will be already pushed out, have preference for those who been displaced from these communities, the MOST of our politicians have once again failed the people in favor of the real estate developers, But they want your Vote

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