Governor Paterson said
this at Thursday's Atlantic Yards groundtaking ceremony:
"To those who supported the project, and to those who oppose the project,
I guarantee that we will be scrupulous in our monitoring of the contract that
Forest City Ratner signed with the state, to make sure that everything, we
were promised, we receive."
First off, Paterson will be long gone before that monitoring would take place.
Moreover, the state was not scrupulous in drawing up the contract, has
not been scrupulous in any of its dealing with the public, and has let pretty
much all "monitoring" of the project to the developer, Forest City Ratner.
The statement is incredible.
