Daniel Goldstein, Last Atlantic Yards Holdout, Agrees To Sell For $3 Million
The last holdout in a long-running land dispute with the developer of an NBA arena agreed Wednesday to sell his home on the site for $2.4 million more than he paid for it a few years ago.Daniel Goldstein and his family agreed to leave their Brooklyn condo by May 7 in a settlement in court with developer Forest City Ratner Cos.Goldstein said he bought the condo for $590,000 in 2003 and will receive $3 million for it. The sale figure was first reported in The New York Times.Goldstein founded Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the Atlantic Yards development project’s most vocal critic. Under the terms of the settlement he can no longer be the spokesman for the group, but he said he will still be involved with it.”The fight and the opposition to the project will continue,” he said.Seven other families living in the footprint of the 22-acre Atlantic Yards development project agreed Tuesday to leave.
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