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April 9, 2006
Marty's dance of avoidance on Atlantic Yards
Atlantic Yards Report discusses the information missing from Marty's Brooklyn!! newspaper, namely the Atlantic Yards project, and speculates that this is due to the controversy surrounding the project including the following:
But a 1/16/05 New York Daily News article headlined Apple polishers fatten Mike fund explained that the Bloomberg administration has raised $36 million in private money over last three years for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City.Ratner, a member of the fund's 49-member board, "donated more than $60,000 from his company and his foundation for, among other things, a long-stalled statue of Brooklyn Dodgers greats Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese," the Daily News reported.
Why keep quiet about such a public-spirited effort (sports, Brooklyn, racial harmony), especially since Ratner has more prominently promoted other local donations? Maybe, as the Daily News reported, because "some donors have business links to the city - raising eyebrows among good-government groups, since the mayor has called for strict curbs on donations from city contractors to candidates in the campaign-finance program."
Posted by amy at April 9, 2006 8:56 AM