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October 3, 2005
The day Brooklyn conquered the World (Series)
NY Daily News
by Marty Markowitz
Marty can't let the 50th Anniversary of the Dodgers World Series win pass without stumping for Ratner's Nets arena:
Now a big kid of 60 championing a boroughwide economic and cultural Renaissance, I know what unites us: religion, music, family and sports. We have plenty of the first three here in Brooklyn, and the time is right to bring back a national sports team. With the prospect of the Nets playing basketball at Atlantic Yards in just three short years, we have a chance to create a spectacle, and a spirit, that the 10-year-olds of today and tomorrow will remember and celebrate when they are 60.
NoLandGrab History: Ratner and Markowitz want to put a new Nets arena next to the same site that Walter O'Mally wanted to build a new ballpark for the Dodgers. O'Malley was turned down by city planning czar and master of unintended consequences, Robert Moses, who postulated that it would create "a China Wall of traffic."
UPDATE: We were amongst the many who fell prey to the myth that O'Malley proposed a new Dodgers ballpark on the SAME site as Ratner's Atlantic Yards proposal. In fact the ballpark plan was located at a site northeast of the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic, where Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Center Mall currently stands.
Posted by lumi at October 3, 2005 10:55 AM