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January 22, 2006
METS GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO A NEW PALAITIAL (sic) PALACE
The Eddie Kranepool Society
The worst are the schmucks in Downtown Brooklyn who are against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. As someone who grew up just a few miles from that area let me tell you, that back in the day, the only reason you went to that part of Brooklyn was to either go to the dentist, (One Hansen Pl) to score heroin, or eat cheesecake at Juniors. And as a person of the Caucasian persuasion, as the sun went down, you better get out of town. That has all changed. The same way you can walk down Times Square with a $1,000 camera and not get a knife in your back, you can walk the streets of Downtown Brooklyn and not need mace, brass knuckles or hardware from Smith & Weston. A new arena with a hotel and shops and restaurants will be a huge boon to Brooklyn.
Hmmm...a neighborhood (not Downtown Brooklyn incidentally, which someone who "grew up just a few miles from the area" should know) comes into it's own. Knock it down!
Posted by amy at January 22, 2006 10:44 AM