ATLANTIC YARDS OP-ED, FINALLY

Read the New York Times' Op-Ed about Atlantic Yards in the Staurday Times by novelist Jennifer Egan, who lives in Ft. Greene.

It's the first one ever. Can you believe?

Egan, a novelist, is the author of "The Keep" and "Look at Me" and is on the advisory board of Develop Don't Destroy. She does a great job of outlining the issues. I think her piece will make a big impression on Times' readers.

Norman Oder, of Atlantic Yards Report, had this to say: "Some 38 months after the Atlantic Yards project was announced, the first-ever national edition op-ed on the topic appears today in the New York Times. (One was published in the City section in November 2005.)

Here's an excerpt from Egan's essay.

The developer Bruce Ratner broke ground this week on his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, despite an eminent domain suit over property he must raze to build a basketball arena for the Nets. This “preparatory work” is Mr. Ratner’s latest maneuver in a maddeningly effective campaign to make his instant city — a 22-acre swarm of 16 residential skyscrapers (and a 20,500-seat arena) that would create the densest population swath in the United States — look and feel like a foregone conclusion. READ MORE AT THE TIMES...