Excellent post on the Atlantic Yards

Do any of you know anyone personally who favors the damn Ratner project? I sure don't.

Anyway, mole333 does an excellent job of explaining why opposition isn't just NIMBYism:

The issues that surround development in NYC in general, and Atlantic Yards in particular, include the culture of corruption that seems to be filtering from the Federal government down to the local level, the neglect or active removal of "undesirable" communities (usually minority and poor), government secrecy, excessive links between business and government, use of tax money to aid big business, and the exclusion of the community from major decisions regarding its own future. The interests of the rich are put above the interests of the city even by the city government, and this is often done in secrecy. It is hard to think of a single issue that encompasses more fundamental concerns of the progressive movement than Atlantic Yards.

It's well worth checking out the whole thing, though it's long. mole333 elaborates on each of the above and puts the Ratner development into context in a changing Brooklyn.