Informative
Sometimes winning doesn't mean getting the prize. Sometimes winning means knowing that you fought for what's right. This is a story that must be told again and again if anyone is to ever feel safe owning their own home.
My only criticism is that in documentary format I personally prefer the style which has more sit down interviews with players in the story to narrate details of the events.
There is a saying that goes something like this, "The more enemies and the stronger they are, the more honor there is when you fight them." If that's true, then the focus of this story is about a very honorable family. Shame on the rest of us for allowing this to happen.
Excellent documentary
This is an excellent documentary on the last holdout in the battle against New York's Brooklyn Atlantic Yards development, with much insight into how political forces cunningly manage to ride roughshod over neighborhoods and neighborhood constituencies. For anyone involved in the fight against the ruthless overdevelopment of The Bloomberg Years in New York City, or interested in that ongoing history, this is necessary viewing.
Important filmmaking
This movie chronicles the Atlantic Yards debacle, which occurred in my Brooklyn neighborhood. It covers something like eight years from proposal to groundbreaking on a project that was beyond a sweetheart deal, in which blocks of private housing was deemed "blighted" and basically given to a developer, played here by the evil Bruce Ratner. If you care about eminent domain abuse and the prevalence of backroom dealings among the powerful, where ever you live this is an important manual. See this movie!
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