Bus 200
Daniel Goldstein vs. urban development corporation
Facts:
The petitioner, Daniel Goldstein, is the co-founder that led a case to fight for the
community of Brooklyn to unite its areas than to divide and destroy them for
construction proposals. Forest city ratner companies and Atlantic yards are some
of the few that proposed the use of land proposal in Prospect Height.
Issue: Is respondent’s exercise of its power of eminent domain in conformity with
certain provisions of our state Constitution?
Decision: Affirmed
Reasoning:
Daniel Goldstein
– Property owners in Brooklyn that were taken by eminent domain of UDC as a
development proposal
– “economic development takings were unconstitutional under federal
constitution”
constitutional rights over