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February 16, 2007
Linking Ratnerville and Miss Oklahoma win
The problem with Ratnerville is that everything starts to relate to Ratnerville, as evidenced by this letter to the editor of The Brooklyn Paper:
To the editor,
Thanks for the pictures of New York beauties Bethlene Pancoast and Bess Myerson, the only Jewish Miss America, crowned in 1945 (“Snubbed! Miss New York loses again,” Feb. 3). The local pride in your article was a welcome break from yet more news that our politicians are giving Bruce Ratner yet more money for the “favor” of turning us into Anyplace, USA.
Like the southern contestant who beat Miss New York, Brooklyn may soon have its own false smile, false facade and one-size-fits-all “glamour.”
How can we expect the rest of the country to appreciate our brand of individual and neighborhood beauty unless we are willing to fight to save it?
Jezra Kaye, Prospect Heights
The writer is a volunteer with Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at February 16, 2007 12:12 PM