Friday, December 10, 2010  Jeffries says ESDC "has fallen down
on the job" regarding AY oversight; will new governance bill
help?; Governor-elect Cuomo wants an AY meeting  At the Prospect
Heights Neighborhood Development Council's forum Wednesday on
Atlantic Yards traffic, it was impossible for Assemblyman Hakeem
Jeffries to untangle potential solutions from governance issues.
(My coverage, the Brooklyn Paper, and Patch.)  Assemblyman
Hakeem Jeffries said his goal was that “if this project comes to
fruition we will minimize the detrimental impacts it will have
on quality of life.”  He reflected on the “interesting time” in
state politics since he took office in January 2007, with
turmoil in the governor's office, state Senate, and other Albany
entitities.  From December 2006 through January 2011, Jeffries
said, “We will have been through four governors in five years,
and the consequence of that, I believe, given that this
initiative was conceived at least as a public-private
partnership with public involveme