''Brooklyn Matters'' is a 2007

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, produced and directed by Isabel Hill and edited by Marian Sears Hunter. The film describes the fight against the

Atlantic Yards Pacific Park is a mixed-use commercial and residential development project by Forest City Ratner in Brooklyn, New York City. It will consist of 17 high-rise buildings near Brooklyn's Prospect Heights, adjacent to Downtown Brooklyn, Park Slop ...

development project in

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. Atlantic Yards is

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's Forest City Development and the

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's plan to build a

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basketball arena and 17 office and apartment buildings along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. The film includes interviews with

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, Bob Law, then-Councilwoman

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and Julia Vitullo-Martin and shows the community input meeting for the project's

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statement. Chuck Clifton,

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, and Michelle Clifton,

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, were also involved in the making of the movie. A screening of the film in February 2007 at

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attracted verbal and physical

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from people apparently in support of the development.

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''Brooklyn Matters''Forest City Ratner
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