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May 24, 2006
TONIGHT: Brian Lehrer Live
Atlantic Yards Reporter Norman Oder will be Brian Lehrer's guest tonight on CUNY's live TV call-in show.
Brian Lehrer LIVE on CUNY TV, Channel 75 at 7:50 pm.
More info (including webcasting)
Though Oder has been barred from press conferences and is a regular (probably unwelcome) correspondent with the NY Times ombudsman, somehow he manages to continue peeling back the layers of Bruce Ratner's $3.5-billion project. The walking Atlantic Yards encyclopedia is on a mission to unwind Ratner's PR spin and doggedly follow each lead through the underbelly of Brooklyn politics, urban planning movements and minutiae, media criticism, financial analysis, and the secretive world of quasi-governmental state agencies and corporations.
The big question is, who is Bruce Ratner going to send to go mano-a-mano against Norman Oder?
Ratner Executive VP Bruce Bender stopped making sense a long time ago. Forest City Ratner's President of the Atlantic Yards Development Group Jim Stuckey has a poor poker face and a couple of known "tells." Ratner mouthpiece Joe DePlasco (previously on Brian Lehrer's WNYC radio show as "Joey in Cobble Hill") is more of a PR straightman and may not have the chops to deal with plan particulars. Will it be ACORN head Bertha Lewis, who is contractually obliged to stump for the project? Or, do they have a secret weapon?
Posted by lumi at May 24, 2006 9:06 AM