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About DDDB
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there are 51 community organizations formally
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DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
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signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
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and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.
We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.
We have the financial support of well over 3,500 individual
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Fuzzy Math
More close-reading of the ESDC master
closing documents today from Atlantic Yards Report, this time on the fine-print
waffling over just how big the development actually would be. Norman
Oder deciphers the small print to discover that the Ratner organization
would be allowed to build something a bit less than 65% the size initially
promised. Oder explains why that matters:What's wrong with the
picture? Some much-touted benefits of the project, as calculated in new
construction jobs, new permanent jobs, and new tax revenues, were all predicated
on a full buildout. No alternative analysis was provided. The fuzzy math
of Atlantic Yards is becoming crystal clear: subsidies
by the taxpayers continue to go up, and
benefits to the community evaporate. And one other thing is equally clear:
it's time for a full stop to this lumbering project and a honest public
reassessment of just what it really means.
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