Brooklyn community leaders and elected officials on Tuesday voiced their frustration with the state for failing to hold the developer of Pacific Park accountable for missing the deadline to build all the promised affordable housing units, and hinted at a potential lawsuit to force the developer to pay monetary damages.

When the development to build luxury housing and Barclays Center was announced in 2003, it was called Atlantic Yards and then-developer Forest City Ratner Companies promised to build 2,250 affordable housing units to appease the state that used eminent domain and a zoning override to clear properties for the project.

So far, eight of the 16 planned buildings have been built, which includes 1,373 affordable units. However, a 2014 settlement from a lawsuit stipulates that

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