Not In My Backyard!

New Yorkers overwhelmingly don’t give a shit about what happens with the Atlantic Yards development:

Brooklyn’s $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project is supported by 60 percent of city residents, according to a poll in Crain’s New York Business.

Some neighbors of the proposed megadevelopment in Downtown Brooklyn have been trying to kill the project, a 22-acre complex that would include an arena for the NBA Nets, a hotel, high-rise offices, apartments and stores.

“The meaning of the poll is that New Yorkers are broadly pro- development, and that includes people in Brooklyn who are close to this project,” pollster Craig Charner told Crain’s.

Not surprisingly, opposition to the project was highest in Brooklyn, where 33 percent objected to the plan. That compares with 25 percent in the rest of the city.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.