Does Goldstein See the Handwriting on the Wall?

Stick a fork in this Goldstein loser, I’ve had enough of his whining.

in the photo, he doesn’t look like he’s in game shape…

Would Goldstein immediately leave if Ratner were to now make the same offer that he turned down?

Of course Ratner would have no obligation to do so. Goldstein has probably cost Ratner tens of millions by now and he probably will no longer live long enough to see Atlantic Yards complete. Of course that wouldn’t be enough satisfaction for Goldstein. He doesn’t care if this drags on a few more months and screws up the Nets future plans for the post season and also possibly delays the completion of the project so that life would continue in the area of Barclays. Brooklyn residents will be suffer in the end.

Here is a chance for Daniel to tell us if he would accept Ratner’s generous offer again and sign an agreement to leave by April 3?

I know many of you probably that the ceremony held last week sealed, but these days it can mean anything. Some also believe that the lawsuits are over, but there is still another one comming up next month. On 4/12 there will be another lawsuit involving the Atlantic Yards and it will be known as Peter Williams vs NYS Urban Developement Corp. In this case it will involve new information that is not being used by the ESDC, so their outdated claims will not work there as it did in other cases. The location will be at the Manhattan State Supreme Cout, located at 80 Centre Street in Manhattan. The time of the oral argument will be at 9:30 AM for that day.

And Ratner will never get financing.

Seriously, why are some you supporters so hostile on Goldstein and other opponents of this project? Some of you have made claims on DDDB without ever presenting any evidence to back it up. I am still waiting for proof on where they want to just leave the rail yards undeveloped and it has to come up their own mouthes and not from someone who claims that they said it. BTW, they do not have very small support, they actually do have support from many of the surrounding communities and even brownstone Brooklyn whereas Ratner’s only support comes from those on his payroll such as ACORN and BUILD, a group he created. Saying that they don’t have a right to fight to keep their own property is very similar to saying whether or not a woman can have an abortion on the embryo in them even though it’s their own body. This isn’t being selfish, it’s called caring about their property and Goldstein tends to finds that very important to him. The reason I don’t trust Ratner when it comes to giving decent jobs to locals is because he did that before with MTC when JP Morgan Chase just relocated their existing employees instead of hiring locals who where in dire need for them. Even the name of that complex made it feel like an office park rather than something that goes in the area. Everytime I see a rendering of the Atlantic Yards complex, it feels more like some gated or walled community rather than something that fits in. Just abusing eminent domain domain and using taxpayer dollars to fund it alone are reasons to oppose it because nobody wants to see what’s supposed to be used for public projects be abused nor do they want their tax dollars to help a rich man like Ratner get richer. Understand the causes and not the effects.

I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet. Just because it’s making progress, doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen in the end. Let’s not forget that the new stadium for the Jets was almost going to be built, but then Sheldon Silver, who is the State Assembly Speaker, voted it down and that hit the final nail in the coffin for it. Even though there was a demolition for 7 South Dearbon in Chicago back in 2001, but it was never built and a smaller building went there instead. The Westway, which was even mentioned by Letitia James, was very close to being a done deal, but was cancelled in the end due to its costs. Maybe Jane Jacobs was wrong for fighting against the building of the LOMEX, but she continued to fight it and won against the almighty Robert Moses despite all odds. The Breezy Point Towers over in the Rockaways were demolished after being half built after being found to cost too much and was abandoned at that point. However, I find some of you to be the naysayers, and I can say similar things about ignorance on your side especially when some of you continue to repeat some of the rhetoric that Ratner mentiones even though it was found to be false numerous times. It’s just like those who believe the anti-Israel myths and still ride them despite the fact that they have been disprooven. I wouldn’t be surprised if there those like you back in the colonial days telling Patrick Henry to give up on standing up to the British after unfair taxes or George Washington not to risk his life to fight the British Army. I wouldn’t be surprised if those like you were living durring the early part of the 1800’s and mentioned how slavery will never be abolished and those fighting to end it were just wasting their time. As for the Carlton Avenue Bridge, it’s not part of the project in any way or form, and it was suppossed to be nearing rennovation by now. BTW, I have never related Goldstein to MLK, Jr, you did that Net Income, so don’t do an Errol Louis, which is putting words into someone’s mouth especially when they never actually said that.

I do not represent DDDB or anyone else who opposes this project in any way or form just like how I don’t represent the Twin Towers Alliance when I say things against the official plan at the WTC site. If anyone has been to an Atlantic Yards hearing and saw what I placed under affiliations, I have pretty much marked it as stating myself. Also, nobody from those groups asked me to come up and be against it, I did that on my own as well. Another thing is that numerous times I have asked you supporters to back your claims on where DDDB is clearly anti-developement and selfish, and none of you have ever prooven that, but rather repeated your claims with the same blanket statements or got very defensive on it. This is almost like those on Streetsblog who went stark raving mad when they saw a report from Hunter College saying that cyclists flout the law constantly, but never presented anything disprooving the claim other than saying that the report was biased. As a nerdy leftist, I do not make arbitrairy claims, and I have backed up my claims, but I have still yet to see evidence prooving where the opposition is wrong hence the repeated stereotypes and persoanll attacks. As for my analogies, if you bothered to look them up, you would understand what I am talking about here and how it relates to this, which is groups or individuals who continued to fight for their causes despite how many naysayed them, because they knew how important it was rather than just siding with the bandwagon. Remember, everytime any of you makes a claim on them that I find to be false, I will be challenging it, and you better come up with actual facts prooving it and it can’t be something you believe is true or some wild statement that you concocted at the last minute just to give an answer. How would any of you feel if someone made a claim on you that was found not to be true? Would you come over and debunk it, or just live with that claim? Also, don’t use common knowledge and/or good faith to back your claims on them either, because I won’t buy that. Then again believing those lies from Ratner comes from an old saying from PT Barnum, “A sucker is born every minute.” The reason why I debunk the claims on DDDB or even just Goldstein himself is because I am probably the only person here who has actually met with them in person and spoke with them to get an understanding, and I can already tell you that they are not for keeping the Vanderbuilt Yards undeveloped and even supported a rival developer that has actually sat down with them unlike Ratner to build a more sensible project that will only use the rail yards, not recquire any subsidized bonds, and even keep more of the promises that Ratner will probably lie about.

Boxing gloves should be provided too.

This Blog is in itself a Newsmaker, not just commenting on the News.

The importance is that while the rest of sports reports that the NBA is waiting to approve Prokhorov, we have before us the root cause of our problem.