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February 23, 2007
Yards poster caper in Fort Greene
The Brooklyn Paper reports on Atlantic Yards supporters gone wild:
Two days before the screening, the owners of a Fort Greene bodega that had put up posters for the ["Brooklyn Matters"] screening reported a bizarre run-in with two diehard Atlantic Yards supporters, according to Fort Greene Association member Lucy Koteen.
“Two guys came by the bodega, tore down the posters on the outside and started kicking at the door,” said Koteen. “Then they came in and started screaming, ‘We need jobs!’ So the storeowners called the police.”
The shop-owners didn’t want the name or location of their store printed, for fear of retaliation. Nor did they ask for new posters to replace those torn down.
“And I wasn’t going to ask them to put up any,” said Koteen. “We don’t want any trouble.”
NoLandGrab: Note to supporters, intimidating store owners is not a respectable "job" (actually, neither is blogging).
Posted by lumi at February 23, 2007 7:55 AM