The project’s high price tag, which was originally going to be paid for by private sources, but ended up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.The replacement of lead architect Frank Gehry by cheaper architects and less-expensive plans.Promises of affordable housing and 10,000 jobs that were allegedly scrapped in favor of extensive parking lots and predominantly non-local labor used to build them.The filmmakers focused on the following issues: And it paints an unflattering portrait of redevelopment. It documents what the filmmakers view as a great injustice, in which eminent domain displaced hundreds of residents so that a new stadium - designed to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn - could be built by a powerful few. The resulting film, “The Battle for Brooklyn,” was made over the course of seven years and is currently showing nightly at Brooklyn Heights Cinema. In 2003, when the Cleveland-based developer Forest City Ratner announced its plan to build the $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards project in Prospect Heights, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky turned on their cameras. Filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley.
