Hearing Testimony Establishes Platform For Future Legal Fight Queens Tribune
Willets meeting gets heated Times Ledger
Fighting for a future beyond Willets Point Times Ledger
Willets owners dispute "underutilized" tag Queens Chronicle
Willets Point Reality Queens Crap
What Support? Queens Tribune
Iron Will at Forum Daily News
Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
EDPL hearing coverage
Willets Point Landowners State Their Case, Epoch Times
Willets Foes Plan Suit Over Eminent Domain, Queens Tribune
In Willets Point, Workers and a Resident Fight On, New York Times
Willets Point Property Owners Vow to Continue Legal Challenge Against City, WNYC
Willets backers plan to reopen suit against city, Times Ledger
Willets Point owners vow last ditch legal stand, Crains
Concern for Underclass as the City Progresses on Its Willets Point Plan, NY Times
Willets Point property and business owners ready to fight city over eminent domain, Daily News
Willets Foes Plan Suit Over Eminent Domain, Queens Tribune
In Willets Point, Workers and a Resident Fight On, New York Times
Willets Point Property Owners Vow to Continue Legal Challenge Against City, WNYC
Willets backers plan to reopen suit against city, Times Ledger
Willets Point owners vow last ditch legal stand, Crains
Concern for Underclass as the City Progresses on Its Willets Point Plan, NY Times
Willets Point property and business owners ready to fight city over eminent domain, Daily News
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
We're back
We were on vacation for awhile, but we're now back. Here are some links to posts that concern Willets Point that were published elsewhere while we were away:
Relocation Travesty [Willets Point Watchdog]
Mocker goes to Willets Point [WPIX]
Awful Legacy [Queens Crap]
EDC's Rampant Incompetence [Neighborhood Retail Alliance]
Relocation Travesty [Willets Point Watchdog]
Mocker goes to Willets Point [WPIX]
Awful Legacy [Queens Crap]
EDC's Rampant Incompetence [Neighborhood Retail Alliance]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Flushing Times editorial far from accurate
From the Neighborhood Retail Alliance:
The Flushing Times, setting a new standard for diminished intellectual capacity, unleashed an attack against us in last week's issue for trying to create an unneeded and undesirable delay in the development of Willets Point-and in the process so totally confused the paper's good readers about the facts at hand that it would be accurate to assume that the obfuscation was purposeful.
In the first place, it should be pointed out to the paper's readers, that none of the businesses at Willets Point have been relocated-and precious few have even been paid for their property, as the city has withheld payments in these troubled economic times. And we're a bit confused about the nature of the, "losing battle," since no negative outcome has occurred since we were retained last year.
Now we'll speak slowly here, and repeat what we had said-and what the Flushing Times had actually reported: "The issue, as always is the discrepancies between the original EIS and the ramp report submitted by EDC to the state: 'The group’s traffic concerns center around two ramps to the Van Wyck Expressway, which would be built in order to accommodate traffic to and from the new development.Lipsky argues that a traffic study the group commissioned found the project would lead to 80,000 new car trips per day and slow everyday traffic to a crawl on major surrounding roads, such as the Grand Central and Cross Island parkways and Northern and College Point boulevards.'"
The Flushing Times owes its readers an apology for this misdirection. As we said at Bay Terrace-and will repeat to all of the civic groups on our upcoming Willets Point Victory Tour-the Willets Point project will create gridlock throughout the borough's arterial infrastructure-a reality that can be gleaned from the city's own traffic study that the paper falsely claims we are challenging. It is this set of facts that have been corrupted by a new team of consultants that have apparently been brought in to confuse regulators at NYSDOT and FHWA about the realities expressed in the original EIS.
But the most egregious aspect of the Flushing Times' ad hominem attack, is that it muddies the waters about what the city is trying to do-and how the Willets Point development will gridlock much of Queens. Better to go after the lobbyist messenger with the bad news than to honestly confront the real dangers that lie ahead for so many Queens communities should this project go forward.
The Flushing Times, setting a new standard for diminished intellectual capacity, unleashed an attack against us in last week's issue for trying to create an unneeded and undesirable delay in the development of Willets Point-and in the process so totally confused the paper's good readers about the facts at hand that it would be accurate to assume that the obfuscation was purposeful.
In the first place, it should be pointed out to the paper's readers, that none of the businesses at Willets Point have been relocated-and precious few have even been paid for their property, as the city has withheld payments in these troubled economic times. And we're a bit confused about the nature of the, "losing battle," since no negative outcome has occurred since we were retained last year.
Now we'll speak slowly here, and repeat what we had said-and what the Flushing Times had actually reported: "The issue, as always is the discrepancies between the original EIS and the ramp report submitted by EDC to the state: 'The group’s traffic concerns center around two ramps to the Van Wyck Expressway, which would be built in order to accommodate traffic to and from the new development.Lipsky argues that a traffic study the group commissioned found the project would lead to 80,000 new car trips per day and slow everyday traffic to a crawl on major surrounding roads, such as the Grand Central and Cross Island parkways and Northern and College Point boulevards.'"
The Flushing Times owes its readers an apology for this misdirection. As we said at Bay Terrace-and will repeat to all of the civic groups on our upcoming Willets Point Victory Tour-the Willets Point project will create gridlock throughout the borough's arterial infrastructure-a reality that can be gleaned from the city's own traffic study that the paper falsely claims we are challenging. It is this set of facts that have been corrupted by a new team of consultants that have apparently been brought in to confuse regulators at NYSDOT and FHWA about the realities expressed in the original EIS.
But the most egregious aspect of the Flushing Times' ad hominem attack, is that it muddies the waters about what the city is trying to do-and how the Willets Point development will gridlock much of Queens. Better to go after the lobbyist messenger with the bad news than to honestly confront the real dangers that lie ahead for so many Queens communities should this project go forward.
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