They stole Brooklyn from Us

This is like the old west the rich taking land. Remember those that back this (Marty the Boro President should give up his office he sold us out. thost that decide for the peoplle don't live where the choices are made. no new Hospitals, schools how is the overdevelopement of New York doing to be handle. power outages. waste removal. this the worst since Robert Moses

Politicians chose to ignore the public. People should call for Marty Markowitz's head for ignoring Brooklyn residents' concerns. Also I should say Virgina Fields who lied to people about a fake photo she published in the papers

I moved to Prospect Heights from Detroit a few years ago to escape the paved nightmare of freeways and huge roads that chopped up a thriving city into disconnected bits and pieces. The automobile and the calls for more of the roads it requires killed Detroit. I came to Brooklyn to live in a place where I would never again have to worry about cars. I thought I could ignore them here, pretend they don't exist. And I do! I love walking to the store, to the Park, to the subway, riding the subway to work, etc.

So to those who continue to quote traffic projections and the gloom and doom that will result from adding cars to this part of Brooklyn, PLEASE STOP!! You sound like the highway planners of the 1950s that ripped Detroit apart (and many other US cities in similar fashion). The Atlantic Yards proposal has its lowpoints and highpoints... but how it will affect congestion on Flatbush?!! Come on. If you want to drive your car around Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Park Slope, you picked the wrong place to live, AND housing affordability and job creation (which this plan should be crafted to provide) are obviously not everyday worries for you. Bringing up traffic volumes in any discussion of the pros and cons of a plan for Atlantic Yards discredits people who want to intelligently speak about the area's future.

The area around the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues is the best-served by public transit of any point in New York. Probably in the country. Nearly every subway line runs through this area, plus the LIRR. If we're going to add affordable housing and jobs in NYC, this is where it should be. Whether the plan as proposed does these things effectively is definitely up for debate, but whether density at this location is appropriate given the amount of car traffic it will generate? - This is truly a ludicrous question to which to devote time.

We learned the hard way in Detroit that planning for more cars is a very, very bad idea, especially in areas that are well served by alternative forms of transportation (which few parts of Detroit are - see LA for a better example). The ONLY way you can prevent more people from driving through a specific area is by making it difficult to drive through. Flatbush is already congested. Adding lanes to the Avenue wouldn't change that fact, but more importantly, neither will adding more residents and businesses.

I have lived in brooklyn all my life and i love it here, but i really would like something else build in this wonderful city. There seems to be so many buildings going up and actually no thought of building a wonderful nature park that people can take their children and enjoy the outdoors. The government is always talking about how heavy the children are getting that they are not getting enough exercise. Keep Brooklyn beautiful build a park instead.

No one objects to a development of the Atlantic Yards site. What's surprising is the notion that the choice is seen to consist of FCRC/Gehry's vision of the project or nothing else.

While I think the project as imagined is ill-conceived to the point of criminal—driven by the developer's greed, the architects fragile ego, and its political supporters' opportunism—I think a large, architecturally significant development is exactly the solution to the site. Atlantic Yards just isn't the solution.

The hypertrophic "Oz" Ratner et all have envisioned is a fantasyland that is neither appropriate to site, nor will it serve the vast majority of the people of Brooklyn. The development is many things—a means to further enrich Ratner and his investors, a way for Ratner to enter the "A" list of developers, a chance for Gehry to have the last laugh he's been waiting 30 years to have on his detractors-but what it is clearly not, is a blessing for Brooklyn.

I am really concerned and saddened by the decision to go forward with this project. This is eventually going to elimanate the middle class. The affordable housing proposed will not be enough for those of us who are already struggling with the real estate prices and rent prices in New York. The average middle class New Yorker makes anywhere between $40,000 to 50,000 a year. This people cannot buy apartments which range in of $500,000 or more or rents of $1,500 or more. To qualify for affordable housing most applications state that you must make no more than $19,000 a year. Who in New York can live with this income. I think it is really sad what is going on in this City with regards to the middle class and lower class. NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION to this groups. This project will not help any of these groups. The jobs it will bring will not make up for the outrageous real estate and rents prices that will happen as a result.