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Pledged Amenity Space at Atlantic Yards Was Never Built. What Will That Mean for Promised Affordable Housing?

More than a decade ago, when the state was modifying the terms of the Atlantic Yards project—the ongoing downtown Brooklyn development that now contains the Barclays Center, and a series of glassy apartment towers known as Pacific Park—the builders behind the site pledged to create “a significant public amenity comprised of a large, glass-enclosed public space,” between the arena and the nearby subway entrance.

But anyone who’s visited the Barclays Center can attest: there is no such enclosed plaza at the site, despite a 2014 agreement between the developers and the state that set a hard deadline for its creation—along with a $10 million penalty if the owners failed to build it by May 2022.

Now, elected officials and community advocates are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul and Empire State Development, the state entity overseeing the project, to collect on those missed deadline fees. They say doing so is paramount to holding the developers accountable to their public promises—which also include providing 877 more units of affordable housing, still unbuilt, at the site.

“When the public has lost all confidence in our ability to negotiate, put together contracts and packages that do not get fulfilled—once one promise gets broken, the confidence for all other promises in the future are broken,” Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said.
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Manhattan Community Board 2, a City of New York government agency, is hiring a District Manager responsible for monitoring and evaluating the delivery of municipal services, land use, and zoning issues, and budget management concerns within Community District 2 and actively participating in the coordination of the delivery of these services.

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