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June 9, 2006
Yards rivals on same ‘path’
Brooklyn Papers
By Dana Rubenstein
No need to clean your glasses — that is Steve Buscemi and Charles Gargano posing together.
Has hell frozen over?
Not quite. The anti-Atlantic Yards thespian and pro-Yards chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation earned their leaves on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s “Celebrity Path” last week in a ceremony that required some dicey commingling.
Some say such mixing and matching is part of the beauty of Brooklyn. (Others say Buscemi shoulda decked him.)
“Only in Brooklyn would these people be all together,” said Brian Vines, spokesman for Borough President Markowitz. “Their love of Brooklyn was the guiding principle.”
But many were mystified why Gargano, a bureaucrat, was even on a “celebrity” path. “I could think of better Brooklyn celebrities,” said one political insider. “But, then again, the thought of stepping on his name is rather fulfilling,”
FYI: The two suits who look eerily like life-sized cardboard displays are Gargano and Markowitz, from left to right.
Posted by lumi at June 9, 2006 8:40 AM