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That money should (presumably) help build a legal fund sufficient to get fights against eminent domain and perhaps other issues off the ground. But lawyers are expensive, so fundraising undoubtedly will continue.
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(Top photos by Amy Greer. Castle crew photo by Daniel Goldstein.)
One participant's nominee for the best sign: "Best Block in NYC Opposes Worst Proposed Development in NYC."
Concert
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(This mural was designed by Eduardo Alexander Rabel for DDDB. Photo by Jonathan Barkey)
Harding's got excellent originals, but the crowd's favorite song was probably his cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi," which begins:
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
Mitchell's final stanza begins:
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Bob Dylan adapted it to:
Late last night I heard my screen door slam
A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and the land.
It's hard to call the proposed Atlantic Yards footprint "paradise," though it includes some well-preserved buildings, others that have been substantially spruced up, and others that could be rehabilitated despite claims of blight. As for the "parking lot," well, there would be three large interim surface parking lots.
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