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May 7, 2006
Shooting from the lip
Mike Lupica of the Daily News:
Even the NBA commissioner, David Stern, sounds giddy at the prospect of RatnerWorld, a development that will forever alter the skyline of Brooklyn, like a little chunk of Manhattan going up over Atlantic Yards.The people behind this still play everybody for suckers, talking about building on those railyards, even though that is just a piece of Bruce Ratner's land grab, about one-third of a footprint as big as Shaq's.
They talk about affordable housing and hardly ever talk about the 16 high-rise buildings being built around all of Ratner's basketball players, whomever they will be by 2009 and 2010.
They try to make the opponents of this, the people from the neighborhood, sound shrill and hysterical.
NoLandGrab: We'll take 'shrill' over 'shill' any day...
Posted by amy at May 7, 2006 9:22 AM