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July 7, 2006
'Do the Right Thing' Is More Than Her Movie Debut
The NY Times
By Robin Finn
While Atlantic Yards proponents have been quick to criticize local celebrities who do not support Ratner's proposal, Rosie Perez has been going about her business, giving back to her community and standing up for what she believes:
She is ready to rhapsodize about Working Playground, whose creatively inclined but economically deprived student clientele conjures up memories of growing up the hard way in Williamsburg and Bushwick.
And, as a member, with Oscar figures like Heath Ledger, of the celebrity-enhanced board of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, she is more than willing to vent about the multibillion-dollar Atlantic Yards project that is, she frets, threatening to change her eclectic home borough into, horrors, "a mini-Manhattan."
Posted by lumi at July 7, 2006 10:13 AM