Billionaires vs. Brooklyn’s Best Bar: Eminent Domain Abuse & The Atlantic Yards Project
After nine years, numerous lawsuits, and one egregious case of eminent domain abuse, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center officially opened on Friday. Two years ago Reason TV covered the neighborhood’s fight against the stadium and talked with…
Ball State use of eminent domain spotlights rare but potent tool of state universities
Earlier this month, Ball State University’s board of trustees authorized the use of eminent domain – the power of the state to seize private property without the owner’s consent so long as the owner is…
Petition Opposes Using Eminent Domain For Peekskill Firehouse
Business owners in the Crossroads Shopping Plaza have started a petition against the city’s planned use of eminent domain to buy the property as the site for a new firehouse. Cusano, Art. The Peekskill Daily…
Gas pipeline operators set sights on NY
With a decision expected soon on whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in New York state, natural gas pipeline operators are already looking at setting up shop and opponents are predicting environmental damage, safety problems and…
The ghosts of Fort Drum: Visiting the small communities wiped out by eminent domain
“We looked at some of the remains of seven small communities in eastern Jefferson County that were wiped out — pulled down, burned, carted away — in the buildup to World War II in 1941,…
Columbia Controversies: Eminent domain in Manhattanville, December 2008
In 2003, University President Lee Bollinger invested in building a 17-acre campus along Broadway from 125th to 133rd streets in Manhattanville—leading to a drawn-out legal battle that has only recently been resolved. Kumagai, Jillian. Columbia…
Unusual eminent domain plan stirs Long Island talk
Long Island communities consider using mortgage refinance with eminent domain. Janison, Dan. Long Island News Day 21 August 2012.
New York – Taking property for economic reform
Blight Study Builds Case for Declaring Lynbrook Factory ‘Eminent Domain’ Conry, Tara, Malverne-West Hempstead-Lynbrook, NY Patch 17 August 2012.
A personal story of loosing land to eminent domain
Eminent domain hurts. A personal story of loosing land to eminent domain. York, Bill and Cara York. Summit Daily News 12 August 2012.
Plan Upends Willets Vision in New York City
Plan Upends Willets Vision in New York City. Brown, Eliot. Wall Street Journal 16 May 2012.