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In hopes of flushing the criticism of his controversial new Nets arena over the Atlantic Rail yards in Brooklyn, Ratner has decided to use waterless urinals which will save the city 1.5 million gallons of water a year.
Critics of the project still say that saving water or not, all that waste has to go somewhere, and their fear is that it will end up in the Gowanus canal. I’m not exactly sure how one would go about telling if some extra waste actually made it into the Gowanus canal or not, but then again, I’m no environmental expert.
I don’t know about you but I’m pretty much against the entire idea. I mean if God had wanted us to use waterless urinals…then why would he invent water? Or is Ratner trying to tell us that he doesn’t believe in God. Is that so Mr. Ratner?! Well you take your heathanistic waterless urinals and you go to hell!
Just kidding, I’m sort of psyched to see the Nets play in Brooklyn. It’s not like it’s ever going to be fun to watch Isaiah Thomas ruin the Knicks.
No 1. idea for Nets’ arena [Daily News]
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Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.If you live near the Gowanus you will indeed be able to notice a difference when (not if) Ratner’s crap overflows. Yes, it’s stinky to cross on foot, but do you remember when it stank from a block away? From inside? With the windows shut? We’ll be back to the bad old days in no time.
Even if they do use waterless urinals in the stadium (it should be presumed, though, that Ratner will go back any promise that isn’t court-enforcible), 7300 new apartments with no planned upgrade to sewage infrastucture are more than enough to tip the scales.
And that’s not even mentioning the nightmares of traffic, parking, and subway overcrowding. Or the joke of a “bidding” process where the MTA gave the railyards to the lowest bidder, the inherent injustice of seizing private land and public funds to generate corporate profit, or the scam of an ever-shrinking percentage of “low-income” housing which no low-income families will ever be able to afford anyway.
The Nets stadium is nothing but a ploy to get Brooklyn behind this huge, hideously ugly, for-profit housing development — somehow these two are mysteriously bundled together! Why!?!
Please give a glance at dddb.net and nolandgrab.org to see just how bad for Brooklyn this will be.
Atlantic Yards — it stinks!
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 at 9:52 pm | Permalink
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