{"id":1503,"date":"2006-09-05T01:09:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/not_in_my_backyard.html"},"modified":"2006-09-05T01:09:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:09:49","slug":"not_in_my_backy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/not_in_my_backy.html","title":{"rendered":"Not In My Backyard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/bklyn_arena_scores_in_poll_regionalnews_jana_winter.htm\">overwhelmingly don&#8217;t give a shit about what happens with the Atlantic Yards development<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Brooklyn&#8217;s $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project is supported by 60 percent of city residents, according to a poll in Crain&#8217;s New York Business.<\/p>\n<p>Some neighbors of the proposed megadevelopment in Downtown Brooklyn have been trying to kill the project, a 22-acre complex that would include an arena for the NBA Nets, a hotel, high-rise offices, apartments and stores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meaning of the poll is that New Yorkers are broadly pro- development, and that includes people in Brooklyn who are close to this project,&#8221; pollster Craig Charner told Crain&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, opposition to the project was highest in Brooklyn, where 33 percent objected to the plan. That compares with 25 percent in the rest of the city.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/prospectheights\/atlanticyards\/index.htm\">Atlantic Yards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers overwhelmingly don&#8217;t give a shit about what happens with the Atlantic Yards development: Brooklyn&#8217;s $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project is supported by 60 percent of city residents, according to a poll in Crain&#8217;s New York Business. Some neighbors of the proposed megadevelopment in Downtown Brooklyn have been trying to kill the project, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}