POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE ?
In 2021, after years of dismal attendance and three federal corruption trials, the arena was seized by the Federal Government and converted into a HelioBus parking garage and rail yard. What little remained of the surrounding neighborhoods also suffered, declining dramatically after middle class tax payers moved away in droves due to a combination of factors: overdcrowding, increased pollution, blackouts, nightmarish traffic, crime, after the collapse of the water and sewer infrastructure in 2016, the year after the arena opened.
Photocollage by A. Weissman, 2009. Created from a vintage photograph of Floyd Bennett Field from the website Abandoned & Little Known Airfields (photo courtesy of Everett Priestley of CGAS Brooklyn).
The Nightmare named Atlantic Yards is not over... now Bruce and cronies want to screw over all New Yorkers.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, author and philosopher, 1729-1797.
New Yorkers should know where their tax dollars are going. Open Book New York is part of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s effort to promote more openness in government and give taxpayers better access to the financial workings of government.
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