Watch the new slideshow about the interim parking planned for Atlantic Yards. Click here to visit AtlanticLots.com
Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?
Video of Rally Against Demolition for Parking
Governance Video
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Click here to watch a pop-up slideshow of images, maps and siteplans of the proposed Atlantic Yards project.
Atlantic Yards would:
Contain the same amount of development as 23 Williamsburgh Savings Banks
Generate over 20,000 new vehicle trips every day with no plan to avoid gridlock
Contain affordable housing that won't be affordable to average Brooklynites
Potentially be built without significant input from New Yorkers
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Welcome to BrooklynSpeaks
BROOKLYNSPEAKS has been created by civic and community groups to inform New Yorkers about the Atlantic Yards project and enable them to ask the decision-makers only to move forward with a plan that works for Brooklyn.
Atlantic Yards is a proposal by the developer Forest City Ratner to build 16 towers and an arena on a 22 acre site in Prospect Heights. Unfortunately, the plan has been created with no significant input from New Yorkers, and while development of the site could be beneficial, the plan voted on by state officials in December won't work for Brooklyn.
- To view a pop-up slideshow about the plan, click here.
- To find out more about our principles, click here.
- Click here to read a recent paper released by the sponsors calling for the governance of the project to be reformed.
Click here to send a letter to the decision-makers today that the plan must be substantially changed to work for Brooklyn. If New Yorkers speak up, we can achieve a better plan for New York.
BrooklynSpeaks Blog
Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?
May 5, 2008
Check out the new slideshow by the Municipal Art Society about the temporary surface parking planned for the site featuring new renderings about the project at AtlanticLots.com!
Hundreds rally for an Atlantic Yards "Time Out"
May 3, 2008
Saturday May 3 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 3 RALLY ASKS GOVERNOR PATERSON TO CALL
TIME OUT ON ATLANTIC YARDS
Tell Governor Paterson to call "Time Out!" on Atlantic Yards Saturday, May 3
April 27, 2008
If you’ve been too busy to get involved with the Atlantic Yards project, unmotivated, or perhaps on the fence…now is the time to say “Whoa! Time out!”
Frequently Asked Questions about the BrooklynSpeaks Governance Proposal
October 24, 2007
Since the release of the BrooklynSpeaks governance proposal in August 2007, elected officials, government officials, community leaders and members of the public have asked us several questions about the proposal. The following are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.
1. Is this proposal an attempt to stop or slow down the Atlantic Yards project?
"Build responsibly - with input from the people"
September 5, 2007
Below is a letter sent by a BrooklynSpeaks.net reader recently to Governor Spitzer:
Dear Governor Spitzer,