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Time Out on Atlantic Yards
Press Coverage
 
Below you will find a list of links for online sources of press coverage of the Time Out on Atlantic Yards Rally held May 3, 2008. We include links to blogs, the next wave in reporting!
 
This page will be updated with most recent coverage at the top of the list.
 
Residents Call Time Out on Net’s Stadium
By Jeffrey Harmatz, Brooklyn Downtown Star
A large demonstration was held in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards development last Saturday to urge the new governor to put a hold on further demolitions at the site and reconsider the entire project in light of new statements made by Bruce Ratner, CEO of Forest City Ratner, about the project’s hazy future in a recent interview with The New York Times...
 
Brooklynites tell city officials: “Time Out!”
By Chris Grodecki, Castle Watch Daily
Councilmember Letitia James summarized the goal of the protest when she spoke to the crowd...
 
"... that you were so right,” proclaimed State Senator Velmanette Montgomery from the podium at the “Time Out” rally held Saturday afternoon on Pacific Street near Carlton Avenue by three groups critical of or opposed to Atlantic Yards. ...
 
The Atlantic Yards Rally
By Lisanne McT(Lisanne McT), Found in Brooklyn - http://foundinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/
I was a good concerned Brooklyn citizen for the people and went to the Atlantic Yards Rally today. I heard a lot of great, passionate speeches. Word on the street is "it's not a done deal". While the people who live in the neighborhood ...

Atlantic Yards Opponents Demand “Time Out” at Rally as Supporters ...
By rsguskind, Gowanus Lounge - http://www.gowanuslounge.com
About 300 opponents of the troubled Atlantic Yards development turned out this afternoon to hear a variety of speakers, including City Council Members Letitia James and Tony Avella, request that Gov. David Paterson call a “time out” on ...
 
Atlantic Yards rally
By ltjbukem(ltjbukem), set speed aka onehansonplace.com - http://www.onehansonplace.com/
Today's Atlantic Yards rallying cry was 'TIME OUT' on the Yards project, but the unions and contractors outwitted the protesters by showing up en masse to stage their own rally.
 
Opposing viewpoints collided Saturday as hundreds rallied for and against the Atlantic Yards project...
 
By Peter Kiefer, Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 2, 2008

Seizing on a string of reports questioning the economic viability of the Atlantic Yards project, hundreds of residents and a handful of elected officials are expected at a rally Saturday calling on Governor Paterson to step in and halt all demolition related to the $4 billion plan...