Preliminary Findings on Atlantic Yards Impact

1:31 PM EDT on September 13, 2006

Thursday, September 14th, 7:00 p.m.
Old First Reformed Church
126 7th Avenue (at Carroll Street)

Brad Lander, Director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, will present preliminary findings from the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods' ongoing review of the "Atlantic Yards" Draft Environmental Impact Statement, at a "Neighborhood Impacts Forum" in Park Slope.

Details are as follows:

The forum is free and open to the public, and we encourage you to attend. Mr. Lander's presentation includes some terrific visual representations of the potential impacts of the proposed project. If you have friends or neighbors who might be interested, please let them know.

For more information, please visit: http://cbrooklynneighborhoods.homestead.com, send an email to cbrooklynneighborhoods@hotmail.com, or call 718-408-3219.

Aaron Naparstek

@naparstek.bsky.social

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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