After more than 18 months, state officials will schedule a Quality of Life meeting to hear neighbors' concerns about project impacts and operations.
This is the fifth of five articles about the Sept. 26 meeting of the advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC). The first concerned BSE Global's plans to use the closed Modell's store for a youth basketball program. The second concerned the expected entry of Related Companies and the obligations for affordable housing. The third concerned plans for a giant, two-tower project at Site 5. The fourth concerned the plan to make the arena plaza permanent. Let me cover a few issues unmentioned in previous coverage. For many years, Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project, held bi-monthly Quality of Life meetings to update neighbors on project changes and to answer questions from them. The last such meeting was in February 2023, more than 20 months ago. The meetings slacked when vertical construction finished, and also, I suspect, because ESD personnel had departed. However, the reason for such meeting