City Council Speaker Quinn to Gargano: More Time Please

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has joined NY Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Elliot Spitzer in requesting a delay in the public hearing on Atlantic Yards. The major public hearing on the Draft Environment Impact Statement for the massive project is scheduled for August 23. Quinn, like Spitzer, is asking for a 30-day delay. Quinn says the delay is needed because of "the unprecedented size and scope of the proposed development" and the fact Community Boards are in recess at the time of the hearing. Quinn's letter to Empire State Development Corp. Chairman Charles Gargano also notes that the City Council has funded an analysis of the DEIS and that more time is needed to complete the study. Meanwhile, there are a number of reports today on the tone and tenor of last night's three simultaneous community board meetings at the Brooklyn Papers, which offers a look at all three, and at Gothamist, which looks at Community Board 6's shindig and at Atlantic Yards Report, which offers a look at Community Board 8.