From AllHipHop.com: "Jay-Z’s involvement with a group of investors that purchased the New Jersey Nets won him accolades as a business man, but some residents in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn are singing a different tune.
Yesterday (March 28) almost 400 people turned
out to protest a planned 19,000 seat arena that developer Bruce Ratner, who led the purchase of the Nets, has on the drawing board …
Almost 500 residents and businesses stand to be displaced under the "eminent-domain" law, which is the right of a government to appropriate private property for public use.
Patti Hagan, spokesperson for the Prospect Heights Action Coalition … Read complete article.