All According To Plan

This certainly inspires confidence that every tenant and property owner was treated with the utmost of sensitivity and the kind of careful attention that befits using eminent domain to chase people out of their homes and deny business owners their livelihoods:

Developers of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project were thrown for a loop after a family emerged from a worn-down Brooklyn building last week — and demanded more money to get out of the way of bulldozers ready to raze the block, several sources close to the project said.

The holdouts, who lease apartments at 481 Dean St. in Prospect Heights, are asking for at least $170,000 more to move out of the footprint of the Nets’ new basketball arena.

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Neither the developers nor officials from the Empire State Development Corp. were aware anyone was still living in the Dean Street home, according to two people close to the deal.

“These people were elusive — we didn’t even know about them until last week,” a source said.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.