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About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.
DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
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
donors.
Seattle is grappling with its own arena controversy so their NBC news affiliate KING TV ran a short piece looking at the Barclays Center controversy as a "lesson" for Seattleites. The story ended with this:
Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Borough president, conceded that Barclays Center was a controversial project.
"It certainly will be written in the days to come as the most contentious developments in America's history, not just New York history.
(emphasis added, and corrected for imprecise video transcription)
Isn't this the same Markowitz who pitched potential Chinese lenders/green card seekers by saying:
"Brooklyn is 1000 percent, 1000 percent behind Atlantic Yards."
Indeed, it is the same Markowitz. Only the BEEP knows why he'd lie to China but come clean to Seattle.
Update: Norman Oder has added a little more context and this video mashing Markowitz's two statements together:
What
would Atlantic Yards Look like?... Photo
Simulations
Before and After views from around the project footprint
revealing the massive scale of the proposed luxury apartment
and sports complex.