Forest City: neighbors documenting Atlantic Yards impacts are "hunting for problems" (or maybe tight-fitting project has tiny margin for error)
Ok, tell us what you really think, Ashley Cotton. The Forest City Ratner Chief of Staff, who serves as spokeswoman for the joint venture Greenland Forest City Partners (which is developing Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park, with the exception of the arena and one tower) as well as Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim (which owns the Barclays Center operating company) offers some notably derisive quotes in the Daily News today about residents forced to become community activists because project-related activity regularly disrupts their lives. The article is headlined Fight Night: Atlantic Yards neighbors lash out at developers as harassment persists , and takes off from the Community Update meeting Wednesday night, where, among other things, sexual harassment victim Elicia Howard expressed frustration (as I reported ) that too little had changed to prevent aggressive behavior from construction workers. Forest City fights back Here's the key section: “We’ve been complaining about th...