The Heroes and Villains of New York City
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HEROES
Daniel Goldstein
Before the Great Recession, opponents of the Atlantic Yards project had to declare that the out-of-scale sweetheart-dealt development wasn't a done deal; now its dwindling public supporters have to declare--with Forest City Ratner on its third design for a Nets arena at Flatbush and Atlantic, with no announced plans whatsoever for the rest of the infrastructure-crushing, neighborhood-upending towers--that the project isn't dead yet. Much of this is due to the formerly quixotic-seeming court battling and gad-flying of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, and its indefatigable co-founder. With Bruce Ratner now accessing a credit lifeline courtesy a Russian oligarch, Brooklyn needs Goldstein and his organization now more than ever.
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