No Stadium - Prospect Heights Action Coalition
We the People? Consent of the governed?in 1776 - - way cool! 2003? FUHGETABOUDIT!!!King Marty of Brooklyn wants a pro sports team. Retainer Bruce Ratner says, Ill buy you TWO, the Nets and the Devils,... continue reading »
"It is unfair to the people buying homes in the area to be left out of the process!"
"As a native born Brooklynite from close proximity to the Stadium, I am in full support of any action against building on Atlantic Ave. & Flatbush. Let the Nets stay in Jersey or put them in a more feasible part of Bklyn, like Coney Island where Belt P"
"PLEASE LEAVE THE NETS TO NJ THEY ARE THE ONLY SPORT TEAM WE HAVE AND NY HAS 2 FOOT BALL TEAMS AND 2 BASE BALL TEAMS ."
"TO ALL THOSE CONCERNED ; ESPECIALLY THE POLITICANS BROOKLYN DOES NOT NEED A STADIUM THEY MORE HOUSING FOR HOMELESS AND LOW INCOME PEOPLE NOT LESS"
"Why are billionaires who do not live in our neighborhood, or even own property there, allowed to lower our quality of life? Who sold our country to the highest bidder?"
"Stay in NJ, move to Newark"
"The amount of "benefit" 20,000 people will get from 40 Nets games will pale in comparison to the crushing effect upon the spirit/identity of Brooklyn as we know it and makes me wonder why we cannot galvanize to create a great (public) sports complex for e"
"this arena should be built elsewhere--Sutton Place maybe?"
"I am disgusted by this proposal and the damage it wil do to my neighborhood."
"Building a sports arena at the proposed site will deeply damage community life in Brooklyn. Doing so by providing huge public subsidies (of several types) and by invoking eminent domain (taking homes and small business from citizens) without any demonstra"
"Keep the Nets in New Jersey. Ratner cares nothing for the team, Brooklyn, or most importantly the 1,000 innocent Brooklynites whose homes he hopes to seize. This deal is about one thing only: money."
"from a long suffering NEW JERSEY Nets fan"
"THE NETS BELONG IN THE GARDEN STATE. Ratner doesn't care about basketball, and won't care about the people of Brooklyn or the fans of the team."
"People live in Brooklyn because it's a place to see residential neighborhoods grow and thrive. Destroying neighborhoods to satisfy developers isn't Brooklyn. If it's what New York City and State is going to become, then we have the wrong elected officials"
"Hey Ratner, hands off the Nets and eveything NJ. NY already has an NBA team, why rob NJ's?"
"Not opposed to development, but this one is a frankenstein of ideas that have failed elsewhere-- blocking off existing streets, failing to take into account history and character of the surroundings. Ratner has already built two sunbstandard developments "
"A stadium in this neighborhood and community is wrong."
"At a time when bloomberg is again talking of closing the prospect park Zoo - how exactly can we afford billions in our taxpayer dollars to build a stadium???"