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May 25, 2006
Red Hook Lures Bites
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Nik Kovac
Last week's opening of the Red Hook Fairway brought out a bevy of pols stumping for the Bloomberg-Doctoroff Doctrine:
Schumer, Bloomberg, and Markowitz were clearly eager to use the stage of the exceedingly popular Fairway opening to argue for other projects throughout Brooklyn which have much more significant opposition, like Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Atlantic Yards proposal in Prospect Heights. "Marty is taking it on the chin," sympathized Schumer, "from what I call the culture of inertia, this small group of self-appointed people. If we do not grow, we will die."
Later on, when the Senator was asked by a reporter about the possible ill effects of gentrification, especially displacement, he reasoned, "Economic forces are strong forces, no doubt about it. We can't stop them, but we can certainly direct them. We can bring in more people with means and use them to help preserve the people who don't have means."
Posted by lumi at May 25, 2006 6:29 AM