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Then the project really went into the trenches and it wasn’t as all-consuming. It all seemed very confusing and everyone was in a state of shock. Patti Hagan was walking us around the footprint and there were very many meetings. Michael was shooting everyday for three weeks when we started. Hawley: In the beginning it was very intensive. Was the project all-consuming or were there times that it took a backseat to other projects? Q: You shot the film over the course of seven years. He’d done some graphic design work for one of our films and we went to high school together. In an odd coincidence we already knew Dan. She let me know what was really going on and said to meet this guy Daniel Goldstein. Galinsky: We read about the project when it was announced and we thought “this sounds kind of weird.” A few days later we saw a sign that said “stop the project.” That sign was made by Patti Hagan. MetroFocus spoke with the filmmakers, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, about their role as documentarians, the media’s role in what happened and the future of the Atlantic Yards project. The film’s narrative unfolds through the perspective of graphic designer turned activist Daniel Goldstein - the final resident to be removed from the Atlantic Yards site - who entered a protracted battle against what he felt was a failure of democracy. For a timeline of Atlantic yards click here. Ratner reportedly forced residents who accepted money in exchange for their homes to sign a gag order barring them from participating in any public opposition to the project, and the project bypassed City Council and went directly to Albany.

The feeling that the community was effectively silenced by corporate and government interests.

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.