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On June 10, 2009, New York City Council signed the deed granting the sale of the views of the Brooklyn Bridge to a private developer.

Those who have fought hard to oppose the Dock Street development are disenchanted and disenfranchised by our elected officials, who after wide-spread opposition to this zoning change, which included 25,000+ signatures and postcards, 8 neighborhood organizations, the National Trust, the Municipal Art Society, the Historic Districts Council, Architecture Society of New York City, the Roebling Society – Chapter for Industrial Archeology, the American History Museum of the Smithsonian, Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, cinematographer Ken Burns, the Roebling Family and more, the “will of the people” was disregarded.  Community and civic mobilization, always promoted by elected officials as a way for communities to be heard, was completely ignored.

It is now clear that ‘the fix’ was indeed in long before the public review process began, an insult to all law abiding, tax-paying, community-promoting citizens of not only our city, but our country.  We believe this rezoning was a result of pay-to-play politics, conflicts of interest and special interests infiltrating our halls of local government and not rooted in law or sound judgment.

Mr. McCullough, in describing the Brooklyn Bridge, has poetically stated, “None of us had a hand in building it. None of us contributed a thing to its architectural grandeur or its pioneering technology. None of us were injured in the effort, or suffered from the bends for our labors beneath the river, or died in accidents. They did all that, those men and women of that vanished time. And they built superbly. They set an example of how things can be done right.”  Let it be told, New York City Council did everything but set an example on how things can be done right.

We have all been bestowed with the enormous responsibility of preventing the desecration of our national monuments, our history and symbols of our national identity.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!  PLEASE HELP US SAVE THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE & REVERSE THIS TRAVESTY.  FUNDS DONATED WILL ENTIRELY BE USED IN WHAT WE BELIEVE IS A MERITORIOUS AND VIRTUOUS LEGAL FIGHT.

To donate via check, make checks payable to DNF and mail to:
DNF c/o Gus Sheha
42 Main St. 10F
Brooklyn, NY 11201