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November 6, 2005
Math doesn't add up in Ratner world
Mike Lupica of the Daily News writes another well-researched and insightful column about Forest City Ratner's "transparency":
They are the Nets of Bruce Ratner, and so it was perfect that on opening night of a new basketball season they would try to be masters of illusion in Jersey the same way they try to be over in Brooklyn.Brett Yormark, the team's new CEO, told everybody who would listen that the Nets would have a packed house against the Milwaukee Bucks. Then maybe 15,000 people actually showed up. This is the same kind of math that tries to tell you that one basketball arena for Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, surrounded by 16 high-rise buildings, is more about sports than luxury housing.
That is a different kind of sellout, and a real one.
Posted by amy at November 6, 2005 9:15 AM