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The Atlantic Yards project was conceived by the powerful mega-developer Bruce Ratner when he was the majority owner of the New Jersey Nets he since has sold the team to the Russian multi-billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Ratner's cheerleaders included New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Brooklyn Borough The North Face 2 in 1 Jacket Men's Grey Black NO.10008 President Marty Markowitz, all of whom were important to Ratner because Atlantic Yards relied heavily on New York state and city subsidies over $2 billion of taxpayers' money, and a good part of Atlantic Yards was to be built on rail yards owned by the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This giant project also required a great deal of private property, and thus Ratner needed government to wield the weapon North Face Women GoreTex Jacket of eminent domain.
Battle for Brooklyn focuses on Daniel Goldstein, whose newly purchased condo sat at what was to be center court of the planned arena. While all the other condo owners in his building took the money and ran, Goldstein fought back, rejecting the idea that eminent domain can be used without the say of either his community or his local elected officials to take his home and those of his neighbors' and hand them over to a private The North Face 2 in 1 Red Jacket Women's NO.10034 developer.
Supporting Goldstein's "Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn" organization are his neighborhood's elected officials as well as other residents and business owners who are angered that they had no say in the development of their community neither the community itself nor any elected city or state officials voted on the eventual approval of the project. On Ratner's team were his army of lawyers, public relations spokespersons, The North Face Apex Men Women Outlet0001 and high-profile politicians, as well as those residents excited by the promise of jobs and affordable housing. There was also a celebrity battle. On Ratner's team were Brooklyn-born hip-hop mogul Jay-Z who owns 1 percent of the Nets and his wife.