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March 16, 2007
A great day for Lady
The Brooklyn Paper
By Gersh Kuntzman
Residents of Prospect Heights — whether they support the Atlantic Yards mega-project or not — were united in their joy at hearing that Patti Hagan had gotten her dog back.
That is, except Bruce Ratner. But more on that later.
Lady Day, the peripatetic Atlantic Yards protester’s 12-year-old black Lab, had been stolen last week, setting into motion a community-wide effort to find the purloined pup that ended thanks to a hunch by a receptionist at a Fort Greene animal hospital.
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And Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, which is Hagan’s ally on Atlantic Yards, but typically reserves its Web site for analysis and criticism of the 16-tower project, posted a picture of the dog and a plea for her return.“It obviously was only peripherally an ‘Atlantic Yards’ issue, so I ran it by DDDB’s steering committee, and there was wide agreement that we should do it,” said Eric McClure, who is overseeing the site. “Patti has been a prominent figure in the opposition, so … it just seemed like an instance in which we could step away from ‘the mission’ to do something good in another way.”
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The recovery of the dog put a happy ending on a pretty bad year for Lady Day, who was almost electrocuted in April and also had to watch her owner’s frustration grow as Ratner’s project was approved by the state in December.
Posted by lumi at March 16, 2007 8:29 AM