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July 7, 2005
No medal but a silver lining
NY Daily News
by Mike Lupica
Ratner is doing hardly anything different with his arena plan than Mayor Bloomberg and Doctoroff and the Jets were trying to do with the Hudson Railyards. He has just managed to fly under radar because the Jets and their West Side stadium became the main event.
But Ratner gets a sweetheart land deal, one of the sweetheart deals in the history of the city, and if you think it is about bringing pro basketball to Brooklyn then you are the kind of dream sucker Ratner needed to look like a hero. A hero of his own bank account. Take a look at his project and how it continues to grow. He just needed a sports team to make it work.
Posted by lumi at July 7, 2005 6:00 AM