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New Atlantic Yards Suit To Be Filed 11/19/09

  ATLANTIC YARDS  
  BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DISTRICT 02     BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DISTRICT 06  
  BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DISTRICT 08  
November 28, 2009
The New York Times

Pratt Area Community Council announced that a group of Brooklyn advocates and elected officials, including the Atlantic Avenue LDC, the Brooklyn Heights Association, the Boerum Hill Association, and the Fifth Avenue Committee, will file a lawsuit against the Empire State Development Corporation on Thursday, November 19, 2009. The suit contends that the Empire State Development Corporation failed to consider the impacts of extended construction when approving the project. Further, a statement from the group's press release alleges, “that the ESDC has illegally delegated to [Forest City Ratner] much of its governmental power to determine the future content and configuration of the Project.”