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May 8, 2006
"Ratner is public enemy number one at my house"
The iTeam Blog, (NY Daily News Sports Investigative Team), Ratner Foe Ends Up in Atlantic Yards Brochure
“Ratner is public enemy number one at my house,” says T Sahara Meer, whose Prospect Heights home has a “Stop Eminent Domain Abuse” in the window. “This makes me really want to fight harder against Ratner. I have to redeem myself.”
Meer wound up on Ratner’s brochure by accident: An acquaintance who works as a photographer asked the actress, writer and Web designer to pose in Prospect Park for some photos that would later be sold to a stock photo agency. Meer said she was between gigs and needed the money, so she accepted the job. “I thought the worse thing that would have happened is that I’d wind up on a herpes brochure,” Meer says. “But that would have been preferable. When I learned I was on the Ratner brochure, I was nauseated.”
Josh Isay, president of KnickerbockerSKD, the political communications firm that designed the brochure, says his company didn’t know it had selected a photo of an anti-Ratner activist. “Like all advertising firms, we use stock images like this one in our advertising, purchased from stock photography agencies,” Isay says. “We have no contact with any stock photograph subjects. The model in question agreed to have her picture used for any and all purposes and she is paid for doing so. We will not use this image in any further materials.”
Curbed.com, Ratner Model Calls Experience "Nightmarish"
We hesitate to appear to be jumping on a bandwagon, given the attention garnered by the celebrity studed anti-Atlantic Yards advisory board, but Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards marketing material that went out last week seems to have stirred up multiple cauldrons of, um, opposition.
Posted by lumi at May 8, 2006 9:06 PM