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October 4, 2005
Marty Markowitz, Revisionist Historian
Refill your coffee, hold your calls, Fans for Fair Play reacts to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's glossy-eyed Atlantic Yards sales pitch in yesterday's Daily News.
Read the litany of Ratner and Markowitz's PR abuses, culminating with yesterday's phoney nostalgia piece about the Brooklyn Dodgers World Series win.
Markowitz writes that the departure of the Dodgers for “La-La Land” (Marty, he’s such a card) was “symptomatic of the decline in many American urban centers in decades to come.”
First, it only had anything to do -- symptomatically or in actual fact -- with Brooklyn, and second, it was symptomatic of a greedy sports team owner who tried to shake down taxpayers, didn’t get it, and took a an immoral offer of free land cleared of an entire community of Mexican immigrants and a virgin major league market on the West Coast instead.
In other words, Walter O’Malley and Bruce Ratner are very, very similar beasts. Whether you’re taking a team away or bringing one in, if you operate at the public’s detriment, you’re running the same con game.
Fans For Fair Play's assesment of Markowitz:
Marty Markowitz is to Brooklyn culture what the Lucky Charms leprechaun is to Irish culture. A sad caricature that promulgates and reinforces the worst stereotypes about Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at October 4, 2005 6:43 AM