Our friends at Atlantic Yards Report have a frightening analogy on their blog.Here's how eminent domain is handled in a Communist country:
Pitted against the builder
Compare to what's going on in Brooklyn:
Coming demolitions mean "urban room" at crucial corner
Photo from Atlantic Yards Report.
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Tribune's Best of Queens (and Brooklyn):
- Courts deemed it illegal to demolish two buildings Ratner illegally took possession of two decades ago.
- Ratner operated bulldozer few inches from resident.
- Resident escaped, but land remains barren to date.
Crooklyn?
Looks like an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, where they built freeways around Bugs' rabbit hole ... so all you see is a tall hole with a mail box on top.
Funny!
It's not funny, it's frightening and sad.
Chinese junk!
And I don't mean the sailing variety!
Even though John Liu is Taiwanese and graduated from Bronx Science High School (whose father is a convicted crook).....he's probably favors this mainland China type business approach!
Clear and conquer!
"Golden Mall This" or "Golden Tower That"!
How about a "Golden Shower"? (That means pissing on your constituents)!
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