Here's
how the 42nd Street light rail CEQR (government mandated Environmental
Review) scam would have worked, and how it adversely impacted BHRA and
the Red Hook community in general:
the NYC Dept of City Planning issued the 42nd Street light rail project
what amounted to a "provisional CEQR approval" on April 6, 1994. This
stated that the ACTUAL CEQR Environmental Review would have been
performed AFTER the light project would have been built- the exact
REVERSE of how a CEQR is really done! The Tudor City Assn. filed suit
against this MOCKERY of the NYC Charter. Soon after, City DOT
"Sponsored" BHRA's Red Hook streetcar project for relatively minor
federal funding, as a "light rail construction technology demonstration
project to enhance the 42nd Street transitway project". In other words,
BHRA was unwittingly used by City DOT as "slave labor" to find
solutions to the City DOT's CEQR and ULURP problems encountered with
the 42nd Street light rail project, a multi billion dollar enterprise.
BHRA should have been paid millions of dollars for this successfully
completed research and development work. Instead, we were used, abused,
robbed, "framed", and once the Red Hook streetcar project was no longer
needed by City DOT as a "technological crutch" for the 42nd Street
light rail project, it was then literally discarded as trash by the NYC
DOT. Finally, to add insult to injury, City DOT came back for more in
2010, and attempted to steal our FRANCHISE for the Atlantic Avenue
tunnel!
All this ABUSE because of the corrupt example set by the AAALDC
(Atlantic Avenue Association Local Development Corp.) when they STOLE
the $2.6 million allocated to the Atlantic Avenue tunnel project by the
NY City Council- and got away with it. Once AAALDC set this "precedent"
of robbing BHRA, of course City DOT figured we were "fair game" for
additional ROBBERY.
Please read pg 1594- 1595 of the attachment for the details of the 42nd Street CEQR SCAM. (PDF)
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Details of the 42nd Street CEQR SCAM
