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April 5, 2006
NY Press, Letter to the Editor
Re: Bruce Ratner #1 Most Loathsome New Yorker
Your article naming Bruce Ratner as the most “evil” New Yorker was a pathetic attempt to appease your hipster über-liberal reader base. Your article generalizes and negates most of the facts. Ratner has acquired 95 percent of the private property necessary for the project and those 5 percent of people who haven’t sold aren’t holding back to protect their properties they are holding back because they know that Ratner needs to warehouse land for his mega-development.
Also the comment about the effect on small business is also false; no businesses have been unwillingly affected the project. However, the biggest omission is the fact that people in Brooklyn want a sports team and that the tax base is eroding in Brooklyn. If you want to support all of your liberal social welfare initiatives what do you need, a tax base. If you want good schools for your kids what do you need? A tax base. This project is going to create a very strong tax base for the city of New York and the people of Brooklyn while filling a void for entertainment not to mention providing Frank Gehry designed housing to the people of the borough. Next time, don’t be so ignorant.
Alex S. Bresler
NY Press's snappy reply: Did you mean “tax base” or “tax abatement”? We get those two mixed up.
Brooklynite Paul Sheridan also slaps the wrist of the NY Press for ignoring the will of the readers by designating "our dear Brooklyn leader, Marty Markowitz" #31 instead of #2, according to the reader poll.
Posted by lumi at April 5, 2006 10:34 PM