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June 26, 2005
Stadium, Anyone?
Questions for Bruce Ratner from New York Times Magazine. Here's our question for the New York Times:
WHEN WILL YOU DISCLOSE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH BRUCE RATNER?
This article is a fluff piece straight out of the clearly deranged Forest City Ratner PR machine.
It has been a bad week for Brooklyn. We can't trust the Supreme Court. We can't trust the New York Times. We already knew we couldn't trust our Borough President and Mayor. But we can still trust our neighbors. It's time to join your neighbors and friends in our fight against injustice. No one will protect Brooklyn but Brooklyn itself.
In Ratner's own words, "Like so many things in life, it was just a matter of money." It's just a matter of money that citizens don't have a say in our own neighborhoods and government? Mr. Ratner needs to realize that everything in life is not about money. Unlike Mr. Ratner, we don't see Brooklyn as a giant piggy bank that needs to be smashed to get at the cash.
Read the article here, if you can stomach it.
Watch DDDB skewer the rat here.
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Posted by amy at June 26, 2005 10:33 AM